Christianity should play a part in how we run our government

Rebuttals"Allowing Christianity to take a role in the government would not be prohibiting people from believing what they want, nor would it be forcing them to believe it. It would only insure that Christian morals be set in place, such as praying in Schools and the teaching of God (as well as the theory of evolution), illegalizing gay marriage, making abortion illegal, etc."Making Christianity the head religion of government, making the Bible dictate how our moral code should be ran is definately infringing on our right of freedom of religion. It makes our government yield that Chrisitianity is superior over all other religions, since we are using Christianity's moral code. Other religions would be denied from the same privilege. The Supreme Court as I have earlier said has declared that putting Christian morals as law is against the Constitution. In 1962, the Constitution ruled that public schools cannot have public prayers and religious readings done for religious purposes. The Supreme Court continued to allow private prayer. Any individual can pray by themselves in a school. However, they may not lead such prayers in class. [1]If a student so wants to pray in school, they can have at it. There is plenty of freakin free time in the whole school day to do so! The only thing we banned is public, teacher led prayer since it is Unconstitutional."Making Christianity a part in government would not be infringing on individuals right to life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. In fact, I think it would only make America a more safe place to live."It would infringe on a person's right to freedom from religion, thus violating somebody's liberty. Our government is not supposed to be a theocracy. Our founding fathers ran away from that idea, why do you think we left Britain? Cause we didn't want a religion with our government."Christianity in our government would not hurt the nation but help it. Christianity has never been our national religion so you can't compare statistics but there did used to be prayer in schools. Prior to 1962 crime, sexually transmitted diseases, alcohol consumption and other things were stable or declining. In 1963 Supreme Court ruled that we could no longer pray in public schools. Violent crimes went up over 500%, sexually transmitted diseases 200%, and alcohol consumption went up 35%. We all want to see our country succeed right? Think to yourself by making Christianity our national religion help us at all? If it would, why not do it? I proved earlier it was not unconstitutional so, what are you so afraid of?"The Supreme Court NEVER banned prayer in schools. As I recently showed, it just banned PUBLIC prayer in schools. If Christianity played a part in how we run our government, public prayer would be allowed again. So, what about the people who are not Christian? Their right to freedom from religion would be violated. The muslim in class would not get their public prayer, so, by the 14th amendment, which guarantees equal protection under the law, it would be violating her rights. Thus unconsititutional, since it violates one's freedom from religion, equal protection under the law, and freedom of religion. The government would thus be respecting an establishment of religion (Christianity), which is as I said under the First Amendment, Unconstitutional."Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."The actual text shows that making Christianity the head religion for our laws is unconstitutional. Win.Plus, all your claims of violence are unsupported, and are likely related to the War on Drugs, the War in Vietnam, and riots at home. No connection whatsoever."Next I will prove the Bible's aid in forming the Constitution of the United States"My opponent's arugments are not really arguments. The reason we have fair trials is because Britain denied this. The Constitution never talks about Creationism, or authority of God > State, and never talks about the Rule of Father and Mother, these are made up, unsupported, and now refuted.Now, for a historical standpoint.President and founding father Thomas Jefferson was a man of deep religious conviction. He realized that religion was a very personal matter. He didn't want government involved in religion, and the other way around. He was a strong supporter of the Separation of Church and State. [2]Conclusion:If Christianity was put as the head religion as my opponent is advocating, it would simply be making the government respect Christianity as the head religion, as I have shown is violating the 1st amendment, being unconstitutional. Public prayer violates a person's right to freedom of religion, and freedom from religion. We are all guaranteed equal protection under the law, by the 14th amendment. This allows us to believe in our own religion, and for government to respect all religions equally. By making Christianity the head religion, we are breaking this bond. In conclusion, making Christianity the head religion is unconstitutional in many ways, and has no clear benefit, as violence would likely erupt as I have shown earlier.When you take the influence from religion, and mix it with the power and authority of government, it leads to disastrous consequences, I have shown a few examples. Theocracies have led to atrocities. When you mix state and religion, and violate the Separation of church and state, and ALSO violate our Constitutional boundaries by large and defined limits, it leads to disastrous, unwanted consequences. The Crusades, the Inquisition, modern Islamic terrorism, and a host of other horrible things in history are all examples of what happens when Church and State combine. [3]Thank you from reading, please vote CONtra.Sources:[1] http://www.wikinfo.org...[2] http://www.usconstitution.net...[3] http://standupforamerica.wordpress.com...