“Like removing prayer form the public schools? Like mandating that someone cannot be fired because they are homosexual? That kind of Government?”
No fool....the exact opposite. This is NOT enforceing behavior conducive to the beterment of society but to its degradation. I am advocating that government should be Judeo/Christian morality based...not secular. I do not see that a a violation of the 1st Ammendment because it is NOT setting up a State Religion that the people pay tax to support like in England (original intent of the constitution). I take it we both agree that abuses have been done in the name of goverment....but it cuts both ways.
I do NOT want to become a Christian Taliban, but the pendulum needs to swing the other direction.
Government, as viewed by the founders, governed best when it governed least.
The Founders would never have imagined a government that followed them into the privvy, but ours has usurped that power.
Power corrupts, and our Federal Government has hoodwinked, swindled, and outright usurped far too much of the power which rightfully belongs to the several States and the people.
The less it decides for the individual, the better, and the less expensive it will be--both in terms of Rights and treasure.
People today put up with so much petty tyranny, they don't know what freedom is--not the freedom from responsibility, but the freedom to be responsible, unfettered by bureaucratic chains.
Ideally, as written, our government would be moral and just, and follow the Judeo/Christian ethos.
I, too, want government to safeguard my rights, not deprive me of them under colour of law.
The latter is what has been happening as the Government has grown, and the only way to reclaim those Rights is to shrink Government, both in size and scope.