It would seem, that "Civics" for any separate group in American society is, quite frankly, a violation for everyone in the public realm. Does this mean every religion or belief system is going to operate with their own separate "Civics"?
But if I have one thing to say, it's please leave your beliefs in the church, your private rooms, summer camps, etc. If you want to behave a certain way, do it away from our secular shared realm if it in any way steps in the direction of invalidating or undermining that realm. Religion has a pretty broad and lengthy history of being a source of conflict. Our country was the first to remove religion from the public realm. If you believe something is good or bad, fine, you and you alone can embrace it as long as it doesn't impact anyone but you and your fellow believers. But that very rarely if ever works.
The worst example of how this goes wrong is the Satmar/Lubavitcher communities and their influence...mostly in New York but other places where they live, too. Although he wasn't the first to go down this road, Eric Adams "buys" himself a large guaranteed voter block by giving special farvors: lets them police their own neighborhoods, shutdown access to roads and sidewalks and operate with a set of their own laws and their schools largely WITHOLD all secular education... no science, no civics, no history, no literature. They only teach Torah and the classes that are for other unrelated subjects-- if they even bother-- are entirely for show. This community (and most of all the women) live locked away from the surrounding community and country and DO NOT contribute back to the general good. And their votes are bought en masse by whoever lets them live apart as they wish. I saw this in Israel and for a whole summer in NYC when I was a substitute teacher in one of their schools.
It would seem, that "Civics" for any separate group in American society is, quite frankly, a violation for everyone in the public realm. Does this mean every religion or belief system is going to operate with their own separate "Civics"?
But if I have one thing to say, it's please leave your beliefs in the church, your private rooms, summer camps, etc. If you want to behave a certain way, do it away from our secular shared realm if it in any way steps in the direction of invalidating or undermining that realm. Religion has a pretty broad and lengthy history of being a source of conflict. Our country was the first to remove religion from the public realm. If you believe something is good or bad, fine, you and you alone can embrace it as long as it doesn't impact anyone but you and your fellow believers. But that very rarely if ever works.
The worst example of how this goes wrong is the Satmar/Lubavitcher communities and their influence...mostly in New York but other places where they live, too. Although he wasn't the first to go down this road, Eric Adams "buys" himself a large guaranteed voter block by giving special farvors: lets them police their own neighborhoods, shutdown access to roads and sidewalks and operate with a set of their own laws and their schools largely WITHOLD all secular education... no science, no civics, no history, no literature. They only teach Torah and the classes that are for other unrelated subjects-- if they even bother-- are entirely for show. This community (and most of all the women) live locked away from the surrounding community and country and DO NOT contribute back to the general good. And their votes are bought en masse by whoever lets them live apart as they wish. I saw this in Israel and for a whole summer in NYC when I was a substitute teacher in one of their schools.