Sorry I’m still not into a theocracy. The separation between church and state in our country started out over a split with the puritans in the 1600’s. It is still important. The official church of the colony persecuted catholics, Jews, and everyone else who didn’t walk their puritan line. The person who insisted on this concept was a minister and left Virginia for Rhode Island and religious freedom. Now how did that get blamed on everyone else????? The church and state connected thing has been tried here before. It didn’t work.
One of the things the founding fathers rejected was a state mandated religion I.E. The Church of England. They did not, However, deny religious freedom. In my opinion government should never be based on any religious belief. We can see even today what a disaster that approach is.
You are right. We can not with the first amendment be a theocracy and that is a good thing. We could not be a free country if we forced people to belong to a Church. It would denigrate the religion also, if they believed in Free Will.
But our rights in this country come from God, so we should teach that in schools. That should be constitutional. We should also base everything we teach on Natural Law and God's Laws and moral absolutes (from the Bible) because that is the basis of our legal system. That is not establishing a religion.
Atheism should not be allowed promotion since it denies where our rights come from (therefore, man could take them away). Darwin should be taught as a theory but intelligent design should be given equal space as long as our Constitution exists.
Glad to hear somebody believes in our Constitutional REpublic and the rule of law. Unlike the secularists who think the law says whatever they say it means.
If everyone who opposes Roe v. Wade and gay marriage is considered a theocrat, then count me in with them.