CHRISTIANS: What are the first 5 LEGAL CHANGES you would want enacted if we had a wholly CHRISTIAN GOVERNMENT?

Question

There have been those who say this would make things better. What would be your top 5 priority changes?

This kind of government is being promoted by Rev. James Dobson and Rev. Pat Robertson, and Newt Gingrich appears to be on board with it, too. Whether or not it is constitutional is open to interpretation by the Supreme Court, which is sounding less like a guardian of church-state separation.

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Being a non-Christian, I don't know which to choose as the best answer, so I will let the Anwers community choose for me.

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Answer 1

this isnt a game where we name what we want. in all honesty, i want all governments to stay out of all religious choices. what would happen if North Korea, China and Saudi Arabia (for example) allowed the Bible and Christianity in their country? I do not want any country, America or otherwise, to have a say over their citizens' religious choice....

I do believe that if we follow our Faith in our jobs, whether government jobs or secular jobs, that everything would be better... for most religions have 'goodness' at heart

Answer 2

1 A community of fath that Trust in God
2 A community of acceptance to accept others
3 consquence in choice one make that are bad an honest legal system
4 True Rehab system for those who do wrong both local/ church and christian Rehab system/prison.
5 A countty that protects others but does not intiate war. Nor try to change a country but stop opresion from one country on another.
I am not supporting any person but here are some concepts by our leaders. The Ideas I agree with but we need to act not talk.

Answer 3

1. Public funding of all political elections- i.e. private contributions of any kind to political processes banned.

2. promote charity by easing restrictions on welfare signed into law in the 1990's by Clinton.

3. Pass a constitutional amendment making the right to govern abortion a right reserved by states (thereby removing the national government from the equation)

4. Public health care system.

5. Ensure the right of all non-Christians to worship how they please.

EDIT: to Nick V- the guys running the country right now just pretend to be Christian because it looks good. Being a Christian is not about being seen. Those guys obviously are not Christian.

Answer 4

My top 5 priorities would be :

1) Lower Crime rates (not sure yet how)
2) Better Education ( and no I do not mean a Christian education)
3) Better Health Care
4) Laws to protect the Environment
5) Set up a better system to protect abused children

I am a Christian and believe that these things are important to everyone, as everyone is important not just Christians.

Answer 5

1. Abortion in the third trimester would be illegalized. Completely. Excepting, of course, cases where giving birth would kill the mother, and the baby would not survive a premature birth.

Beyond that, there is nothing that I would want to change. Perhaps what I would want changed is society's attitude, but that would be much harder. I would want society to REALLY condemn sinning. I would also want divorce to be discouraged, except in cases of abuse or adultery. I would want adultery to be discouraged, and Hollywood to quit making movies with explicit sex. If I wanted sex scenes, I'd rent a porno. I'd want the producers of television shows to tone down the sex and violence a little...scratch that, a LOT. My sex life is perfectly fine, I don't need to watch anyone else having sex, thanks! All the violence just gets on my nerves. It doesn't need to be so explicit. That's why Alfred Hitchcock was a master. You didn't NEED to see blood and guts for the shower scene in Psycho to be scary!
It would also be nice to see morality taught in schools -not religion necessarily, I believe that belongs at home- but morality. Stuff that no parent can disagree with.
I would like to see the rich be encouraged to contribute to society without being taxed heavily.

But to change the laws? That would be nearly impossible.

I guess this probably wasn't the answer that was being sought after, but it's the only one I have.

Answer 6

What do you mean: "if"?

What percentage of people sitting in national and state congress and senate seats, governors and the white house are -not- christian?

Do you really think the microscopically small percentage who are not christian are somehow blocking the christians from running -all- the governments in America in whatever way they see fit?

The only reason the fundamentalists do not get their way is because there are other christians with a more enlightened and tolerant attitude.

I'll ask the question in a more meaningful way...hang on.

Answer 7

hmmm tho Christianity is the majority religion in the USA FUNDY Christianity is not. if the Fundy Christians actually try to install themselves as theocratic potentates and force their Biblical laws on this diverse and secular country they may find themselves going to their heaven a whole lot sooner than they anticipated. American citizenry is armed to the teeth and even most Christians wouldn't like Fundy Evangelical enforcement of a state religion.

Answer 8

We do have a wholly christian government now. The first things they did were:

1. Bomb Poor People
2. Steal Their Oil to sell us
3. Jack up our Fuel Prices
4. Ship our jobs to India
5. Fatten their own wallets.

Notice how they never got around to your abortion and being mean to gay people laws? That's because, as a christian government, they are all about the money (like your TV preachers) and hypocritical about aligning their behavior with their faith.

Answer 9

1) Bring prayer back into the schools.

Answer 10

None. I would put things immediately back to the way they were. Remember? When we all had equal rights under the law. When we were not thrown into jail for a hate crime because we handed out a bible pamphlet to a guy in front of our church? I would order the release of those two 75 year old grandmoms who sit in the general population of the PHiladelphia, PA County jail and await 47 yrs. in prison for handing out pamphlets. They were arrested under the state portion of bill HR 1592 that gives gays elevated status under the law, and that says that if you hand out literature against being gay, then you are comitting the same hate crime as if you beat up and hospitalized a person. That I would change, because those old ladies will spend the rest of their lives in jail. For nothing.
I would put things back the way they were.
The way they were was what brought this Country up to being the best and strongest country on the face of the earth.
People acted with decency and moral values were not a joke. Children were not
subject to forced homosexual teachings in the schools.
I would change "The United States of the Offended" back to "The United States of America".
I would change the new law back to what it was before it became illegal to say:"natural family" and "family values". Since four weeks ago, you will be fired from your job and lose all your benefits if you say either of those phrases. So, I would reinstate freedom of speech.
Finally, anyone who converts to Islam and causes an attack on American soil will be deported immediately and lose all status as an American Citizen.