They are also engaging in actual religious activities.
(Note: the first part of that quote is from me, the second is MrDibble answering me. I can’t find my original quote now in either this thread or the one this was split off from, though it may be somewhere in one or both of them.)
So those of us living in the USA are living in a country in which a significant portion of the population is actively arguing that the USA is specifically a Christian nation; that children ought to be taught that in school; and they are voting on that basis, to try to impose laws on the country as a whole which are based on the religious beliefs of their specific sects of Christianity.
That is not in the least the position anyone in this discussion has taken. You’re arguing with a drastic misrepresentation of what I and others have said.