The religious policies of the Republican Party are bad for society.

My opponent says that humans cannot have worth under secular principals. Does that mean that he would commit murder, rape, or robbery if he knew that no God existed? He also seems to think that we need "moral codes based on religion" to make society civilized. Civilized society is "You do what you want. I do what I want. I will not harm you or your property. You don't harm me and my property." The government does not need religious codes to enforce that principal. Restricting lawmakers from imposing laws based on religious beliefs does not violate the "Free Exercise Clause." The "Free Exercise Clause" grants people the right to exercise their religious beliefs in any way that they want as long as they don't infringe on anybody else's rights or liberties. Outlawing victimless crimes, such as prostitution, is exercising a religious belief in a way that infringes on other people's liberty. Lawmakers can hold the belief that prostitution is a sin and, at the same time, hold the belief that it should be legal on the grounds that it doesn't infringe on anybody else's rights or liberties. That is how the "Free Exercise Clause" works. My opponent goes on to say that "The establishment clause is not being violated because the government is still open to other religions, no religion is being endorsed by congress and no one is have a religion forced upon them (or "onto people" as my opponent put it)." Outlawing a victimless crime, such as prostitution, is imposing a law based on religion. Therefore, people are having religion forced upon them. The "Establishment Clause" states that "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion." It doesn't say that Congress can make laws based on religion as long as it is open to other religions and it doesn't say that Congress can make laws based on religion as long as it doesn't officially endorse an organized religion. It says that "Congress shall make NO LAW respecting an establishment of religion." On to my opponents arguments about gay marriage and prostitution. The same amount of heterosexuals will marry and have children regardless of what the law on homosexual marriage is because people don't get their purpose for getting married or having children from the government. "Sexual intercourse has always been a special privilege of married couples." Who grants this "special privilege"? "But with prostitution it is no longer restricted to married couples." Who restricts sex to married couples? "At that point sex loses it's significance as a method reproduction and becomes more important as tool for entertainment." People can enjoy having sex for fun and still want to have children. "he says that more laws would decrease enforcement of other laws. But he forgets that we could simply increase the amount of police resources." How could we "simply" do this? Draft people into the Police Academy? "If I use my liberty to get a job that someone else wanted then I violate their liberty by: preventing them from taking the job and preventing them from earning the money at the job." Freedom guarantees people the right to pursue anything that they want but it doesn't guarantee people a right to successfully obtain everything that they pursue. "Going onto the issue of drugs. Hard drugs like heroin and cocaine present a threat to liberty. They cause addiction, hallucinations, and other mental problems. Are you really free when you let your mind be manipulated by psychoactive drugs." If a person is forced to use psychoactive drugs that manipulate the mind then they are not free. If a person chooses to use psychoactive drugs that manipulate the mind then they are free.