I'm sorry but I think these guys still don't get it. Religion and Law should be based on the same group of principals but the two should never be based on each other. Does that sound contradictory? It really isn't.
We have religious principals that prohibit theft. That arises from a core belief system that supports private property and ownership. In the end laws prohibit the same. If you made a law against theft based on the religious principal you would be entering a dangerously gray area.
That's an easy issue but what about the old sticky one... Abortion. Nearly anyone would say that infanticide is murder, but that's after the live birth. Most secular belief is that taking a human life should be prohibited. So now there is this gray area that concerns when that formation becomes a human and so on and so forth. I think this debate should be constrained to arguments that do NOT concern religion. Arguing it based on secular principals would be a much more legally stable platform.
What the religious right(usually wrong) don't get is that the more they involve their religion in politics the more politics is going to get involved in their religion. The zealots need to learn to live their lives the way they choose and feel free to instruct their children to do the same but they need to leave the law alone. Religion should be a choice and not a mandate.
Just remember as you see your religious freedoms swirling down the drain that it is you who invite the plumber to fix the pipes.
How Religion and Politics Can Blend - Yahoo! News: "Even a corner-of-the-eye glance at US politics this past year and the conclusion is obvious: Religion has played a polarizing role.
Abortion, stem-cell research, the war in Iraq, gay marriage, prayer in schools were and still are just some of the 2004 election campaign issues that brought out religious voices. Church activists played leading roles in making sure bans on same-sex marriages passed in 13 states. A Candidate's attendance or non-attendance at church in some cases became an issue. Even driving an SUV became a question to ask - 'What would Jesus drive?' - for left-leaning churches."
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