There are many people who excel in one field, and confidently believe that makes them smart in all other fields.
Politics is a sport where we get to watch in real time as they reveal how wrong this notion is.
The future of liberal democracy hinges on our collective ability to maintain the balance between respecting religious freedom and preventing the encroachment of theocratic ideologies into secular governance.
The public sphere should be free from religious dominance, and policy and law should reflect the people's will in their diversity, not the dogma of the few.