- If I were a Christian lawmaker, and it was up to me to allow or disallow issue "X", am I morally required to make issue "X" illegal because I know that "X" is a sin against God?
I say no. I say the purpose of the law is to protect the liberty of the people under the law. The law is not meant to drive morality. Not only is not meant to, but it can't. You can't create moral people from from the top down. Morality is created from the bottom up, by changing the individual people under the law.
My point here, is that I think many people confuse what government should be. It shouldn't be in the business of enforcing a moral code. It should be in the business of creating an environment where all moral codes can co-exist, so long as the rights of every individual are preserved. And if you as an individual know that "X" is a sin against God, that's fine, and you should go about changing the people under the law so that they don't have hearts which want to do "X". The key difference here is that supporting a government that allows "X", does not mean that you morally condone "X". A societies' morality comes from the bottom up, not from the top down.
