The religious right is pushing very hard, in this country, to turn our government into a theocracy.
Where I come from, it has already been tried. It was both a failure and a nightmare.
I am from Massachusetts. When the old Puritans settled here, their form of governance was a church/state. A theocracy.
They had quite the society. In fact, our current society is one which any old Puritan, would be familiar with.
Everybody is "telling on everybody." People are pointing their fingers at this group, and that group. Everyone is running to their minister, with tall tales to tell, about everyone else.
No one is good enough, no one is religious enough, no one is pure enough, on and on it goes.
Everybody is sitting in judgement of everybody.
The old Puritans would have been right at home, in America, in 2005.
Just like then, our current society is pretty hysterical, too.
Unfortunately before their theocracy {their church/state} was finished with, many innocent men, women, children, domestic animals, and livestock had been tortured, abused and put to death.
The Salem witch trials.
As a native New Englander, let me share this with you. Theocracy has been tried in this country. It doesn't work.