[middie]

This is scary stuff indeed. One quick way to destroy the U.S. is to convert public policy making into decisions made on religious tenents, advice and theology. Any single-directed majority given the authority to govern will inevitably oppress all minorities and the be source of civil strife. I hope everyone, whether in government or not, is free to believe, or not believe, and act according to lawful subjective motivations. But to place governmental policies is a position either subordinate to or driven by religion is the move the U.S. back to the Middle Ages with the stresses that existed at large in society and the resultant conflicts.

Moreover, even to most sincerely religious judges will, I hope, be repulsed at the idea of trashing the constitutional immunities and protections to do as this ill-advised, mis-guided poster suggests.

[arthurus]

I am quite content to concentrate my energies on a secular party whose leaders and candidates are informed by religious principles and in whom there is some understanding of freemarket principles. A candidate whose religion informs his choices will not betray his constituents and will be principled in his decisions. The man who says that he leaves his religion in the church and does not let it guide his politics will betray those who voted for him and will not make principled decisions. He is unpredictible. For purposes of this discussion Socialism is a religion and like Islam is one I would NOT like to see as providing the principles by which someone in my party informs his actions.