@OrangeKhrush you also bring up a lot of points that aren't anywhere near mentioned in my post
I don't mention "tolerance" or "intolerance" a single time in my post. I didn't condemn believers as "evil" either - I didn't push any contentious issues other than saying religious and culture-war norms being forced on a whole wide group of people is antithetical to a free society. I'm not making morality judgments about anyone in making that statement. That's just taking my point, making up shit about it, and then refuting the shit you've made up about what I said and pretending like you've countered what I've said.
Even amongst the religious, there's a huge spread of thought on how devout a person needs to be. Islam's a massive religion and pork and booze are forbidden to the devout, yet there's tons of Muslim people who consider themselves Muslim and love beer and having pizza with pepperonis on it. But applying Shariah Law to them imposes the strictest religious standards on them and takes away from their freedom to live how they want.
The same thing works in a hypothetical where you get Zealots like Mike Pence and Amy Covid Barrett changing laws for the US. Secular society is meant to protect people from zealotry. Protecting a secular society is just as important as rooting out corruption, like the corruption in Maui that led to the loss of life and historical and cultural sites.