Question

In some countries, like the United Arab Emirates, religion plays a strong role in laws governing how people live their daily lives. For example, during the celebration of Ramadan, it is illegal to eat, drink or smoke in public during daylight hours (even in your car!). In the United States, the Establishment Clause of the Constitution is supposed to prevent religion from playing this sort of political role (although it doesn’t always). What reasons might there be for favoring the Establishment Clause? What reasons might there be for opposing it?

Answer 1

A society is made up of people from different backgrounds such as, race, religion, ethnicity, culture, language etc. who live together in order to achieve a common goal. People are individuals with their own reasoning power, besides, they also have the fundamental right to choose who they want to be and which religion they want follow. It’s this that forced almost all the democratic countries to remove religion from intervening in the government policies thus creating a uniform law that binds everyone together and treats everyone equally. Earlier, religions had huge influence on the governments but today, they have lost their significance except in few countries such as Saudi Arabia.

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