Forcing our pagan neighbors to live in our version of a Judeo-Christian society is not the same thing as bringing the gospel of Jesus to a hurting and broken world.
While not opposed to the creation of just laws--quite the opposite actually--it seems to me we have traded the messy and time consuming business of loving and serving our neighbor with trampling over them and ignoring them and circumventing them to politically lord it over them.
This strategy is not only lazy, born of anger, unloving; it not only opposes the message of the Gospel, of the Savior who loves them and emptied himself of all power and authority over them in order to serve them by dying for them, i fear that it will create instead the very backlash of rage that will lead to our undoing. At least in the manner of living we've come to take for granted.
The church will stand until Christ's return, that is a given promise, sure and unshakeable, but under what dire circumstances may she have to exist? And how many of those will be easily traceable to our own failure to follow our Savior's lead?
(almost too many reference scriptures to put here, just read your Bible but how many can you think of?)
