When did I do that? The Church is not government. It is authority, to be sure, but government it is not. It does not use force. Governments use force.
There is no legitimate purpose in the government preventing people from sinning according to religious authority.
I agree, but the moral issues such as abortion, gay "marriage" or no-fault divorce and not merely sins: they are crimes that somehow got legitimized by the American system, rendering it presently illegitimate.
Ludicrous.
The Church, when it had secular authority, was government and it used force.
The system you propose would have “religious authority” that had absolute control over such intimate decisions as marriage and divorce, without ANY input from the people, because you consider elections tyrannical and ridiculous.
How about birth control? Does that ALSO render our Government “illegitimate”? Because people are free to use birth control?