America the Sharia State?

A blog post titled, The 'Elijah-Jezebel' Showdown," kind of shocked me. It was posted on Joe. My. God.  Basically, the blog post is about the recounting of a group being harassed by people in the Castro district in San Francisco. Now the group, which is part of another that is called Joel's Army, goes to the Castro to help Gays give up their evil ways and become straight again. I wasn't shocked so much about what the group was saying. It was cited from the Southern Poverty Law Center : 

Joel's Army believers are hard-core Christian dominionists, meaning they believe that America, along with the rest of the world, should be governed by conservative Christians and a conservative Christian interpretation of biblical law. There is no room in their doctrine for democracy or pluralism.

Dominionism's original branch is Christian Reconstructionism, a grim, Calvinist call to theocracy that, as Reconstructionist writer Gary North describes, wants to "get busy in constructing a Bible-based social, political and religious order which finally denies the religious liberty of the enemies of God."

Notorious for endorsing the public execution by stoning of homosexuals and adulterers, the Christian Reconstructionist movement is far better known in secular America than Joel's Army. That's largely because Reconstructionists have made several serious forays into mainstream politics and received a fair amount of negative publicity as a result. Joel's Army followers eschew the political system, believing the path to world domination lies in taking over churches, not election to public office.

Another key difference between the two branches of dominionism, which maintain a testy, arms-length relationship with one another, is Christian Reconstructionism's buttoned-down image and heavy emphasis on Bible study, which contrasts sharply with Joel's Army anti-intellectual distrust of biblical scholars and its unruly style.

Isn't that what we went to war in Afghanistan? To fight the Taliban? Wasn't the Taliban a type of government that made Islamic law the law of the land? It's called Sharia. Now we fought against a group that basically used religious law to restrict people and take away basic civil right from the individual.

Now Joel's Army is advocating the same kind of state for America. It would not be an Islamic State like Afghanistan but a Christian State. No matter - this scares me just as much as an Islamic State. In fact, wouldn't that make America just like Iran, another Sharia State? It makes you wonder. I don't have any problems with anyones religion but in America we have the freedom of religion as a guarantee. I do feel that Christianity has become the unwritten National Religion of America but that doesn't mean we should just bite the bullet and use Biblical Laws as the rule of the land. In a democracy the people decide and so far we have decided not to make that happen. And we shouldn't.