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So how will no one working on Sunday really make any difference? I'll take the Five Precepts.

By thatlogic, we shoul just enslave a very small minority and make them do all the work in our society. That sounds perfect!

To all those who want their Christian Politicians voting by their faith, I want you to read a book called "A Handmaid's Tale". And everyone else, it happens to be a great read. This topic sorta reminded me of that book.

I thinks that faith has absolutely no ground inside of politics. "Render unto Ceaser what is Ceasar's and render unto God what is God's" eh? Well, I refuse to acknowledge either this or the last president as any sort of "Ceasar" in that sense, but the Constitution on the other hand must govern our government.

While there is a dispute about where the Separation of Church and state arose, I find it to be essential for a healthy government. Render unto thy Constitution what is thy Constitution's... by allowing everyone their right to practice as they choose.

Especially noting how Middle Eastern culture has created Shisha tobacco, banning such a thing as these "new vices" seems incredibly ethnocentric to me. If Christians don't want tattoos, then I suggest not getting them - the rest of us are perfectly happy without you joining our fun.

Then again, if we want to go by the spirit of the bible passage where Jesus met the temple money changers, I guess we should ban religious stores. I find it deplorable to make money off of "franchising faith" in such a way. Churches that set up shop with "Jesus Malls" right next door seem just as disingenuous for this reason.

As long as you're willing to be a slave, okay.

"Treat others the way you want to be treated."

Exactly.
But I guess it could be nice to be able to choose my master, that would be fun wink

Heck no! Politicians do enough stupid things already, we don't need their interpretation of their religion added in! There's at least a dozen ways to perceive any given verse in a holy book of any sort, and there's a good chance I won't agree with anyone's translation. In the US, church and state are supposed to be divided. Unfortunately, religion is such an important part to a culture that this can't be avoided anyway.

Religious factors in lawmaking just provides way too much room to take away human rights for no good reason, such as "God made Adam and Eve, Not Adam and Steve."

Plus, we might get civil wars with each bill passed as everyone tries to impose their own religious beliefs.

Amoral Fashion? And the poll results are 70% NO! and 30% YES! like thats not a shocker.

Just because people want laws that exist independently of *one* religion doesn't mean we want "amoral legislation".

And why do we need a religion to determine our moral compass? Morals are a cultural concern not a religious one. One can be moral and have no religion.

By the way, just to make sure, as many people don't know the difference between immoral and amoral, I would like to make certain of your usage before I discuss the post further. When you say amoral do you mean or do you mean the opposite of moral? This is just for my own clarification, I'm not trying to cause trouble. I've just come accross problems with this before and I want to make sure we're arguing about the same thing.