Reply #44: It's not religious. And yes, it is worn in public in the US legally [View All]

[riderinthestorm]

(but not in banks, or for your drivers license, etc. where it's been legally banned).

Can Native Americans take religiously mandated hallucinogenic drugs in public? No. We can and do place limits on religious traditions in public if we believe them to be problematic for our greater society at large. I'd say that the Native Americans have a far better case for their religious rights being infringed, than burka clad women (where the burka is of course, not religious but cultural). Both of them however, touch upon grey areas that are open for discussion imho drug usage in public, and women's rights in a misogynistic, patriarchal culture.

Since both of these are "hot" issues in the US, they get a fair bit of scrutiny, discussion and legal fine-tuning ("biased subjectivism" if you wish). Do you think it's okay for KKK hoods to be worn in public? Those are also banned. What message do we send to our greater society if we allowed them?