Over the last century, we've seen that when government gets involved in social issues such as the family, divorce, regulation of vices, poverty, raising of children and many other areas, the end result is usually disastrous.
Generally speaking, government is pretty good at doing things that don't involve human nature, such as killing our enemies or exploring space. However, when asked to deal with things that involve the human heart, government causes more trouble than it solves.
Knowing all this, I figure the average religious American would run screaming from any suggestion that there be any involvement of government in or with religion.
Well said. Government is bound to ---- up religion if you let it. Now that wouldn't break my heart because I don't care much for relgion, but the religious would do well to keep the government away from it.
>> Over the last century, we've seen that when government gets involved in social issues such as the family, divorce, regulation of vices, poverty, raising of children and many other areas, the end result is usually disastrous.
You bring up an interesting time-line. The introduction of the federal government power over social issues, once a preogative of the states, coincided with the introduction of the "Separation of Church and State" power to the Federal Government (also, once a prerogative of the states).