Is it the purpose of politics to promote virtue or to protect liberty?
Discussion
The moral issues are addressed by the faithful preaching of the gospel. Otherwise, you're talking about morality-at-the-point-of-a-sword (theocracy).
The others are addressed with robust private property laws and the right of self-defense.
We all support morality at the point of a sword to one extent or another. All OT civil laws were exactly that. The question is how much of the moral law ought to be codified into civil law for the restraint of sin that the gospel may go forth?
It's much less than most "conservatives" would have us believe, IMO.
Unless you are a full anarcho-capitalist that wants the state abolished entirely, then you are theonomic to some extent. It's merely a question of where you draw the line.
this is a little dense, your brain is overheating.
every law is moral. including zoning laws.
It’s to stack fiat
“Politics is war without bloodshed, and war is politics with bloodshed”
Mao Tse Tung
No.
the civil magistrate is to REWARD the good as well as punish evil
what do you think that means? doesn't sound like protecting much of anything.