3 comments. You start out with a false statement. Many of our laws, governmental strructure and legal system can be traced back to the pagan Greeks and Romans. They had nothing to do with scripture.
The issue we face in a free country is which moral issues need to be legislated and which do not. I believe the whole issue of sexual behavvior with adults, adult personal contracts and marriages are no longer necessary for governmental control. If they are to be governmental controlled it is clear that the religious precepts of a particular religion should not prevail since we don't have a state run religion.
It is very sketcher to cite scriptural source for our laws. There are many practices, laws, and social norms in the scriptures, especially the old testament which we do not enforce now, nor have the been in practice for centuries.