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Yes, exactly. How shall we order a society where we must not allow government to have the power to intrude on private matters between consenting adults? I don’t want to have a government that is so powerful that it can decide that what my wife and I do in the privacy of our own home is somehow a “crime”.

Having said that, there is a difference between what behavior government declares to be illegal and what God does. How do we, as a nation where we forbid government from expressing an opinion about religion (via the First Amendment), and requiring it to allow any religious expression or none at all, how do we engender a society that is moral, including one that is moral with respect to sexual behavior?

Christian churches and their clergy used to have a loud voice in the public square and in the public mind. But not only have they been shouted out of the public square, some have been so seduced by the spirit of this world that they even support and enable sexual immorality.

Long ago, state and local governments stopped enforcing laws about co-habitation with a member of the opposite sex. Government in the last several generations has not sanctioned groups of people peacefully living together. If government cannot muster the ability to forbid a “hippie commune” and the resulting feral children, how can it forbid same-sex co-habitation, polygamy or polyamory?

(I am amused at how advocates of same-sex marriage are repulsed by the suggesting that it will lead to legalizing polygamy.)

God is not mocked. At some point He judges a society and first withdraws His blessings and then imposes punishment for immorality. He promises such. But that is a message for those who know and love God to bring to society, not government. And I don’t want to give Catholics or Baptists, or Muslims, the power of arrest, jail and deadly force, to impose what they see as moral on me.

Now, how to have a peaceful moral and godly society? Sometimes you can’t. In Luke 4:29 an entire city ejected Jesus an attempted to murder him for being truthful with them about their attitude towards God’s truth.

Leviticus 18:22-30 MKJV
(22) You shall not lie with mankind as with womankind. It is abomination to God.
(23) And you shall not lie with any animal to defile yourself with it. And a woman shall not stand before an animal to lie down to it. It is a perversion.
(24) Do not defile yourselves in any of these things. For in all these the nations are defiled, which I cast out before you.
(25) And the land is defiled. Therefore I visit its wickedness on it, and the land itself vomits out those who live in it.
(26) You shall therefore keep My statutes and My judgments, and shall not commit any of these abominations, neither the native, nor any stranger that lives among you.
(27) For the men of the land who were before you have done all these abominations, and the land is defiled.
(28) You shall not do these so that the land may not spew you out also when you defile it, as it spewed out the nations that were before you.
(29) For whoever shall commit any of these abominations, even the souls who commit them shall be cut off from among their people.
(30) And you shall keep My ordinance, so as not to do any of these abominable customs which were committed before you, and that you do not defile yourselves in them. I am Jehovah your God.