What Locke is saying is truly remarkable. Governments cannot force religion on subjects even if the democratic will of the majority has authorized the powers that be to do precisely that. On certain issues the will of the people is to be ignored. It doesn’t matter, for example, if the majority wants mandatory prayer in public school. As for that Revivalist mentioned earlier, with all of his damning statistics about what the people want, the secularist cordially invites him to place himself either at the back of, or under, the bus.
