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As usual when people toss the word “theocracy” about, you claim that a theocracy is something that it is not. Another thing often conflated is the fact that I advocate laws against sodomy, for instance, at the STATE level. Abortion is not a state business, any more than states could pass a law legalizing murder. The fedgov should restrict itself to constitutional duties only, which would remove about 90% of what it illicity does.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/theocracy

Noun

theocracy (plural theocracies)

1. Government under the control of a Church or state-sponsored religion.

2. Rule by God.

http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/theocracy?q=theocracy

Definition of theocracy
noun (plural theocracies)

A system of government in which priests rule in the name of God or a god: his ambition is to lead a worldwide theocracy

So, since I have not advocated a priest/cleric/rabbi/swami run government, your use of the word “theocracy” is a straw man. Instead, I value what these men have said. The statements below neither describe nor advocate theocracy.

“Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites—in proportion as their love of justice is above their rapacity;—in proportion as their soundness and sobriety of understanding is above their vanity and presumption;—in proportion as they are more disposed to listen to the counsels of the wise and good, in preference to the flattery of knaves. Society cannot exist, unless a controlling power upon the will and appetite is placed somewhere: and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds can not be free. Their passions forge their fetters.”

— Edmund Burke

Religion and good morals are the only solid foundation of public
liberty and happiness.”

— Samuel Adams (letter to John Trumbull, 16 October 1778)

Of all the dispositions and habits which least to political
prosperity, Religion and morality are indespensable supports.
In vain would that man claim the tribute of Patriotism who should
labor to subvert these great Pilliars of human happiness.

— George Washington (Farewell Address, 19 September 1796)

“[O]ur ancestors established their system of government on morality and religious sentiment. Moral habits, they believed, cannot safely be trusted on any other foundation than religious principle, nor any government be secure which is not supported by moral habits.”
— Daniel Webster, American Jurist and Senator

“It is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of
Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits,
and humbly to implore his protection and favors.” –George
Washington