State and National Legislatures are Full of Christian Laws

I follow the legislatures of North Dakota and Iowa. While I no longer attend sessions and just read about them in newspapers, I get the impression Republican legislators (along with a few Democrats) are obsessed with passing bills that have no reason or usefulness except putting in place religious ideas. It is Christian dominionism to the max. Its source is in Genesis. There we learn God's people are to rule.

A current matter is which restroom children are to use in school. It is worth the expensive time when legislators meet to debate this. Whatever gender was on a child's birth certificate determines the restroom they must use in school. If early in a child's life the child her parents and professional in their lives determined a different gender than what was on the birth certificate that rules. The change might have occurred many years before. That does not matter to politicians of the faith. They learned from the Bible babies are born male or female and woe be it to anyone that might challenge God's decision. 

Legislators don't spend all their time on transgender issues. Sometimes they leave that and work on laws about attending school in person or remotely. They seem to be experts on that. Because Democrats, who are not in the Party of God, want teachers, local school board and administrators free to make these decisions it has preordained necessary for state Republican lawmakers to intercede.

We've had periods when legislators spent time on bills mandating the display of the Ten Commandments in schools. A few years back there were serious discussions about reading material the did not depict the family as father, mother and children. Families with same sex parents, it was thought, turned children into homosexuals. Then there are days debating abortion.

I recall a candid remark in a Muslim country that fits much of U. S. Christianity to a "T." Someone asked this man, a Muslim politician, why his country's government was so steeped in Islam when some in his country were of other religions or not religious. His answer was, "What good is a government if it cannot be used to advance the true word of God?"

I've come to think that when a very religious person gets elected to the legislature, regardless of what state it is in, the work of running government, collecting taxes and paying bills is below them. They feel they were called to put God in power.