How does this work?

Within a democracy, there is the universal concept known as the "separation of church and state".  It is there for a reason, to clearly delineate between organized religion and the judicial and secular state.  It ensures that religion does not bleed into democracy or the law and that one's beliefs do not influence one's behaviour in elected office.

So, how does the wearing and advertising of one's religion on one's head demonstrate that concept? 

It doesn't.

Here we have the leader of the NDP clearly telling everyone in the public thoroughfare that he is a Sikh.  We all know that Sikhism trumps all else in the life of a Sikh, so now we all now know that whatever he says or does, his religion comes first for Jagmeet Singh.  Just as the "state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation," neither has the temple any business in the running of an elected government. 

Am I the only one who gets this?  Why can a Sikh be permitted to advertise his religion while attempting to be elected prime minister of all the people?  It doesn't work and is wrong in a democracy.  Singh was elected by a bloc of Sikhs who joined the party at the last minute and who all voted for him.  I feel very sorry for traditional NDPers like Charlie Angus who looks like a lost soul wandering in the wilderness. 

People need to wake up and realize Singh is a Sikh first and foremost and while that's great in his personal life, his religion has no place in a blind democracy.