I've been reading some of these right-wing blogs and radio programs, like O'Reilly, Savage and Limbaugh and I'm really appalled at the way they flaunt their religion. I'm not religious, but I'm still angry at some of the things people use God as an excuse to condemn.
I went to Catholic school for twelve years and I know for a fact that Jesus Christ would not have condemned gays. For Pete's sake, he lived in the Roman Empire, one of the most sexually promiscuous empires around. Fornication was all around. Homosexuality was common, especially among older men and young men. This was a regular thing. All that he wanted was for people to be good to each other, but instead people have twisted this great man's words beyond comprehension.
Another thing, people who claim to be " strict constitutionalists" want to use the bible as a way to make abortion and gay marriage legal or illegal are hypocrites. The constitution says to separate church and state, yet these people use religion to justify policies. Pick a damn side and if you claim to be something, be it. Ron Paul, a strict constitutionalist, very religious, doesn't use the bible as a basis for any of his policy. He is pro-life, but he doesn't cite biblical reasons as his.
These agents of intolerance, as John McCain called them, have butchered a beautiful thing. Religion as a means of dictating law is dead. So one: pick a side, two: stop butchering a great man's, Jesus' words. I think if he came back and saw some of the stuff that was carried out in his name, he'd flip out like he did in the temple of Jerusalem.
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The Bible does have a lot to say about what the laws should be. I don't think that it contains an exact blueprint for what government should be, but it does contains principles of justice and rights. It contains a sense of fairness that would be lost if totally abandoned its use in determining public policy. We should not force religion upon people (the Bible itself condemns this), but we should obey its commandments with respect to law just as we would obey any of its other commandments. The Bible contains passages which indicate what the purpose of government is and how it should be limited.
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