Should you separate faith and policy views?

[Digit]

There are many things that I disagree with even on a moral level that I don't think should be illegal because of the greater good and my position on personal freedom. There are few things I find to be more morally reprehensible than abortion, but getting rid of abortion will cause more problems than it solves from the black market it creates and Roe v Wade establishes a legal precident about privacy and the right to one's body that is a bigger deal to me than the abortion issue. While it's not moral to me I fundimentally disagree with someone who gets a sex change, but it isn't any of my business and I respect people's right to do what they want with their money and bodies.
Is it acceptable to hold views of morality and views of policy separately, or is that a sign of weak faith or weak moral fortitude?

Hiya CACTUSJACKmankin... now that's a mouthful.

I think that the two need to coincide. God is our absolute moral grounding, and He does not change. Accepting a worldview will help you to adopt a global set of rules that create a solid grounding for your faith, and with those in place your faith will strengthen. It's a difficult thing to do, as humans often tend to justify things based on our morals, which are fickle and change, and I don't really believe or feel this is the right way to do it.

I would caution you to take the Biblical viewpoint as a whole, or not at all. There are Christians which pick and chose, and I don't believe they worship God, but a god of their making, one that allows them to decide to adopt what they like and what they don't.

All the best, God bless,
Digit

 

[CACTUSJACKmankin]

We aren't stoning homosexuals and disobedient children so obviously there is a difference between policy and morality that derives from the bible. Policy should concern only those wrongs which affect others and not those engaged by the willing. Freedom and equality should be maximized in policy, not minimized for some specific morality view.

 

[Key]

Might be a great question.. that if tomorrow.. Islam becomes the powerful force of the "People" in America, will all the Christians be so willing to put the 'god' of the people in the courthouse.

I am betting not.

God Bless

Key.