arglye663,

You raise an excellent point. Political correctness is often framed as a result of progressive  identity politics. But the intellectual atmosphere promoted by political correctness, in which the notion that one unsubstantiated belief is just as good as another, has actually been best exploited by religious reactionaries to argue that their irrational convictions are just as valid, and just as worthy of protection in our culture, as empirically verifiable facts.

The crisis in our culture does not come from any particular religion, but from each of them. We are so attached to our own unexamined public beliefs that we are compelled not to question the public irrationality of others in the name of religious freedom. In so doing, we've created a democracy of unreason. Part of the answer, as you suggest, is to remove religion from our political and public spaces, and to understand that religion and superstitions are no basis for public policy that serves human needs.