Taken from Jimmy Akin's A Daily Defense podcast (find it here).
Challenge
“People shouldn’t legislate their religious views. We live in a democracy, and not everybody has the same religion.”
Defense
This challenge is problematic on several grounds. First, it assumes people in a democracy shouldn’t vote according to their beliefs. This is false. Democracies…
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