I get where you’re coming from, but let’s be explicit about your specific use case, with regard to an issue you yourself pointed to with your example of what would happen if you openly converted to Christianity:
People who discriminate against Jews are generally doing it because of Jewish cultural identity, not anyactual beliefs of Judaism. I would wager a lot of money on those bigots not having a single clue what Jewish people actually believe.
What I’m driving at is that “religion” as a protected class is growing less and less useful every day, in no small part because bigots love to use it as a shield for their own hate. The protection may need to be updated to reflect broader cultural identifiers beyond what box you would check on a census form.
I get where you’re coming from, but let’s be explicit about your specific use case, with regard to an issue you yourself pointed to with your example of what would happen if you openly converted to Christianity:
People who discriminate against Jews are generally doing it because of Jewish cultural identity, not anyactual beliefs of Judaism. I would wager a lot of money on those bigots not having a single clue what Jewish people actually believe.
What I’m driving at is that “religion” as a protected class is growing less and less useful every day, in no small part because bigots love to use it as a shield for their own hate. The protection may need to be updated to reflect broader cultural identifiers beyond what box you would check on a census form.