wearing religious symbols. Period. Here in the USA, wearing such symbols is protected by the First Amendment. I don't know about Canada.
Freedom of religion is simple. It means you can dress as you like, wear what you like as jewelry or hats, and worship as you choose, if you choose to worship in the first place.
Banning the wearing of religious clothing, like the kippah, for example, infringes on a person's freedom of worship. It is not up to the state, and should not be up to the state, to limit such expression.
Why would anyone care? I am harmed in no way by someone wearing a cross necklace or pin. A pin with the mogen david causes no harm. Nor does a piece of jewelry depicting a wiccan pentacle. Nor am I harmed by someone carrying a rosary in their hand. Nor by someone wearing a hijab. No harm is caused by such things, and they represent the religious belief of the person wearing them. The government should have no role in such decisions.
There is no reason to restrict such things, so there should be no law doing so. I do not wear any of those things. I am an atheist. But they cause me no harm when someone does wear them.
Feh!
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