In our attempt to become secular, the West has simply replaced one set of beliefs with another. And I have to say, I much prefer the beliefs that began with ‘thus saith the Lord’…There is simply no way for us to do culture, society or politics without reference to some set of religious or metaphysical beliefs. The State is not and never can be areligious. The very best efforts to drive religion from the public square — to completely sever church and state — were undertaken by the Communists, and they left a pile of corpses 100 million high.

Every law reflects morality of some kind, and the public square is always being occupied by a set of beliefs. So why wouldn’t Christians advocate for laws that reflect Christian beliefs and morality?

One of the most popular slogans used to convince Christians to stay out of politics is that “you can’t legislate morality”.

The reason many believers fall for this clever line is that it contains a kernel of biblical truth — namely, that legislation has no power to change the human heart, and that people will only live morally upright lives once they’ve been transformed by the gospel.

That’s true. But the problem is when this truth is co-opted to keep Christians from advocating for laws that restrain people’s behaviour. It’s not our place to “impose Christian morality” on others — or so the argument goes.

In a word, you can’t legislate morality.

But you can legislate morality.

In fact, if you think about it, morality is just about the only thing you can legislate. It’s difficult to think of a law that doesn’t have a moral foundation or a moral dimension to it.

Murder. Theft. Extortion. Corruption. Vandalism. Child Abuse. Torture. All of these things are illegal — and all of them have to do with morality. In fact, all of them are a reflection of Christian morality because Western nations like Australia have been so profoundly shaped by Christianity.

So it’s not a question of if morality is going to be legislated, but which morality is going to be legislated.

Morality is being legislated all the time — all that remains to be seen is whose morality will prevail.

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Morality or Immorality?

The more that nations like Australia have de-Christianised, the more we’ve seen very ungodly morality — immorality — etched into law.

In many states of Australia, it’s now illegal for pastors to pray with people who are confused about their sexuality, and counsel them to obey God in that area of their life.

In most states, it’s illegal for Christians to offer help to pregnant women entering abortion centres.

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