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Small towns have the luxury of 'My way or the highway'. If ‘they’ don't want you to live in their town you probably don't want to live there either. Such a black and white approach is a luxury the world cannot afford.
For a start I simply cannot imagine the carnage that seeking to impose a one faith value system on my own city, Greater Dandenong Australia would cause. Whilst majority living in the city are Christian (of various types) 22% are Buddhist, 8% Muslim and 4% Hindu as well as having Sikhs, Jews and Bahia (apologies to any I have missed).
You can apply a small town 'one size fits all' approach in a town. You can’t do so in a city, country or the world because quite simply if you try to expel people with the differing values you leave them nowhere to go to.
A cornered moose will often turn and fight. Imagine a cornered people some of whom who have fled from war torn countries and who know one end of a gun from the other.
My wife's country tore itself apart when politicians stoked the fires of sectarian division. My brother in law (A Christian) who was in the national army was captured by a sectarian militia and briefly tortured before being ransomed. His military associate (A Catholic) was brutally murdered as Catholics where more closely associated with the ruling government.
Another brother is law had his nephew press ganged into a christian militia until he and the boys father went with guns to release him before they fled the country.
Is this the sort of thing that the US really wishes for itself? Life in the city can be more complicated than in a small town.
