Voters at Cedar Hill Lutheran Church
Cedar Hill, Missouri, 2004
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Many communities in America put polling stations in churches instead of fire halls, town halls, libraries, schools, or other neutral sites. Atheists as well as many theists rightfully object to being forced to use sectarian, religious institutions for voting in secular, civil elections. Such institutional mixing of religion and government violates the church-state separation. It not only conditions civil rights on entering a religious institution, but makes things difficult for churches too.
Read Article: Why Must Non-Christians Use Christian Churches to Vote in Civil Elections?
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