I don't particularly care if it's biblical or not. Y'all are welcome to argue over how is more true to your text till the cows come home. My point was, and is, that the christian mainstream culture in this country, through sheer force of numbers, often legislates their opinion of their religion. It is common at the local level. It's also pretty annoying, even if it's little stuff, to non members of that particular religion.
You churchgoers can frett and pontificate on the biblical aspects of various laws, and weather the "Bless their heart" judgments from LE, county councils, and judges are good Christianity or bad, but it still has to be delt with on a daily basis by folks that don't need or want any of your help in their spirituality.
I'd say you don't even know how deeply your religion invades all aspects of your thinking, but the few Baptists in positions of authority I've talked to about it Self Righteously told me that they KNEW they were spreading the faith by law, and that it was good. Which is why Baptists sit on the oppression list. I'd bet money that if I spent more time in the upper midwest the Presbyterians would join them.
Now please proceed with telling me how the laws that I have witnessed, and the people who have told me they were using their county seat to enact or keep religious laws aren't real christians, don't follow the bible or some other crap that has no practical outcome on living with self righteous bible thumping aholes.
I ended reading this in my head with the voice of John Cleese:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExWfh6sGysoWhat have they ever done for US?
1. Logic.
2. Empiricism and modern science.
3. Universal view of human worth.
4. Philosophical underpinnings that helped to end chattel slavery on 90% of the earth.
5. The very idea of the hospital.
6. Etc, etc, etc.
Simply put, were it not for folk like those you despise, we would all still be slaves of some despot and peeing in the same stream we get our drinking water from instead of grousing about how free folk exercise their franchise at the polls.
FTR: Long live Federalism and the 10th Amendment, so I can pack up and move if ever my neighbors get intolerably up in my business.