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In my wifes multi-confessional country many civil and some criminal matters are resolved in church courts perhaps that is where we will end up if the drive to impose church law on society takes flight.
A problem with some who hold strongly held religeous views is that on ascending to positions of authority they often seek to impose their church derived values on the community at large. In a community as large as the US this does include those who have different but often equally strongly held views.
The true strength of democracy is its promotion of the concept of agreeing to disagree of balance and compromise. A concept that allows people with different views to co-exist without violence.
I see much in the past of Mrs Palin that would indicate she disagrees with the concept of 'agreeing to disagree' in fact she describes herself as a pitbull. Such an approach as essentially undemocratic.
In the early stages of my marriage I was confronted by a value held by my wife which on first consideration was an anathma to me, after some time and thought I was able to put it in context and reliased that it was my own thought processes and values that were incomplete.
We drive on the left in Australia you drive on the right in the US both are right in context just as both are wrong in the wrong context.
