Many of the countermeasures are allergies against specific things. If a Catholic ascends to some position and then fires non-Catholics and promotes Catholics, observers are prepared to notice this and argue it’s violating freedom of religion / using religion for something that it shouldn’t be used for in civil society. But if someone whose ‘religion’ is environmentalism ascends to the same position and fires non-environmentalists and promotes environmentalists, the same allergies might not fire in response. I can’t easily imagine a phrase that’s “freedom of X” that captures not being able to fire someone because they’re not an environmentalist, and this means that if ‘religion’ morphs with the times the defenses posed by ‘freedom of religion’ might not morph with them, and we might end up back in the bad state.
Hmm. Perhaps if there were a consensus that some people have deep, sincere, sometimes metaphysical reasons for not being environmentalists, they could become a protected class. I’m not sure many people do, myself.
Many of the countermeasures are allergies against specific things. If a Catholic ascends to some position and then fires non-Catholics and promotes Catholics, observers are prepared to notice this and argue it’s violating freedom of religion / using religion for something that it shouldn’t be used for in civil society. But if someone whose ‘religion’ is environmentalism ascends to the same position and fires non-environmentalists and promotes environmentalists, the same allergies might not fire in response. I can’t easily imagine a phrase that’s “freedom of X” that captures not being able to fire someone because they’re not an environmentalist, and this means that if ‘religion’ morphs with the times the defenses posed by ‘freedom of religion’ might not morph with them, and we might end up back in the bad state.
Hmm. Perhaps if there were a consensus that some people have deep, sincere, sometimes metaphysical reasons for not being environmentalists, they could become a protected class. I’m not sure many people do, myself.