I'd debate you, but I have a feeling we are pretty aligned on this one.
All laws are an instantiation of SOMEONE'S morality. The only true morality is God's. Therefore all laws should be an instantiation of God's moral law.
Christian magistrates will more closely apply God's law to the civil spere than non-Christians, all else being equal.
Nevertheless, we should not expect to achieve an ideal instantiation of God's moral law through any human magistrates, since all have remaining corruption, even in the best cases. Yet, this reality does not relieve us from the duty of pursuing the ideal.
No one should understand any of the above to mean that I would favor the establishment of any particular denomination as the official "Church of the United States," nor that civil authority should be subject to ecclesiastical authority by means of church officers ruling over the civil government, nor that I think the state can or should compel faith in Christ. I do not hold to any of those more extreme views.
Dikaios1517
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