Religions have been around for a long time. A few common religions are Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, and Buddhism. Many of these religions have been around for thousands of years and have a lot of rules that are common to one another. For example no sex until after marriage is one of the rules. The rules practiced by religious people don 't automatically make those people moral. Religions tell the people who practice it what one should and shouldn’t be done but, we as a country have laws that tell us what we can and can’t do. The laws tell us whether or not we are being moral. Religion and laws can affect our public and private lives differently by what we wear, abortion views, our education, and sexual beliefs.
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Christianity, Judaism, Catholics, and Islamic religions all view abortion as a sin because you are killing one of “God’s creations” or because you are taking an innocent person’s life. There are exceptions in some religions where if the baby is going to be mentally disabled or if the mother’s life is in danger, abortion is acceptable. According to the law, abortion is legal in all 50 states. The Supreme Court decided in the Roe vs. Wade case that abortion can be completed within the first trimester of pregnancy. Although some religions say abortion is a sin and immoral the law states that it’s a private and personal matter that depends on whether or not the parents of the unborn child wants to go through with …show more content…
Private schools perform in the teaching of religion and are legally permitted to do so. In public schools students are required to learn general education such as math, English, and history. These subjects are also taught in privet schools but taught in a way that follows their religious ways and views. For example there are schools through out the country that will teach history in a way that is pertaining to the Bible. These schools generally have a majority of their students who practice the religion Christianity or are Catholics. Public schools, on the other hand have numerous kinds students practicing all different types of religions. The reason behind this is because public schools are a government institution whereas the privet schools are independently owned and operated. This gives the privet schools the freedom to teach about religion because they own it. The government operates the public schools meaning the school does not have that same freedom and this is significant in the first