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Res ipsa loquitur.

Hardly.

Christ made it very clear that membership in His Church is necessary for salvation. It is His command, not mine, that every human creature is subject to Him and bound by His Laws. He instructed St. Peter and the Apostles to "go and teach all nations" - not to drag everyone kicking and screaming to baptismal fonts - that's "forced-feeding" which, as I said, I'm not talking about.

I'm talking about the true liberty of human society "which does not consist in every man doing what he pleases, for this would simply end in turmoil and confusion,[...]but rather in this, that through the injunctions of the civil law all may more easily conform to the prescriptions of the eternal law."
(-from Libertas Praestantissimum of Leo XIII.)

Prior to Vatican II the Church commanded that secular leaders make and base their laws on God's. Simply speaking, I'm not advocating a law which says "You must believe in God or face imprisionment" but rather "You are not entitled to live in an ungodly way." I'm not talking about a law that requires all to worship God in the Catholic religion but rather laws which uphold Catholic principles and morality.