All That the Trump Administration Is Doing Is Streamlining Religious Discrimination (Originally a Facebook Comment)

If the Trump Administration really cared about streamlined categorizations as well as the Constitution, they could’ve easily implemented a system of categorization such as: 

1) Judaism, Traditional/Non-Messianic:

    a) Rabbinic

        i) Orthodox

        ii) Conservative/Masorti

        iii) Reform/Liberal/Progressive

        iv) Other 

     b) Karaite

     c) Samaritan 

     d) Other

2) Judaism, Messianic / Christianity 

     (Scores of movements or denominations)

3) Islam

    a) Shi’a/Twelve Fold

    b) Sunni

    c) Sufi

    d) Other

4) Native American/Indigenous American

    (Scores of religions, movements, and denominations)

5) Indigenous Religions Other Than Indigenous American

   (Scores of religions, movements, and denominations—e.g., Slavic Neopaganism, African Traditional Religions, Māori Traditional Religion)

6) Asian and Indian Religions

    a) Confucianism 

    b) Buddhism

    c) Hinduism 

    d) Sikhism

    e) Taoism

    f) Jainism

    g) Other

7) New Age/Wiccan/Classified Outside Of Traditional Indigenous Religions and Neopaganism

   (e.g., Jedi and New Age Mysticism)

8) Agnosticism, Deism, or Ethical Culturalism (Adlerism [in reference to Felix Adler])

9) No particular religious or philosophical affiliation or classification 

10) Atheist/Secularist/Antireligious

11) Other

12) Unknown or Undisclosed (Contact next of kin if possible.). 

Forms, dogtags, etc. could easily read, e.g., “1aiii [Reform Jewish]”, “2…[e.g., 2a for Messianic Judaism/Jewish Christianity as a movement or denomination]”, “3c [Sufi Islam]”, and “4…[e.g., 4aiii For Western Cherokee/Navajo Nation/Four States/Diné Indigenous Religion].”