Equality Before the Law - Christianity and Religion

This idea of equality before the law applies to people's ideas themselves, in the sense that the law ideally does not make religious decisions (i.e. which ones are good, which ones are bad)--except for those which call or incite violence or other harmful actions. (Harmful actions are violations of legitimate rights.)

Those coming from a Christian perspective ought to agree with this because of the basics of Christianity. Christianity focuses on the relation between our ideas, beliefs, etc. and God, primarily. We believe (truly, not just a profession) and are saved. We merely profess to believe or believe something importantly different from the Truth and are not saved.

Under a right Christian perspective, ideas and beliefs are primarily between God and man. Christianity's emphasis on true belief, and not mere profession, should persuade Christians (1) that we should oppose a government's promoting Christian beliefs and ideas because that would encourage hypocrisy and (2) that we should certainly oppose a government which represses Christian beliefs because that would scare people away from Truth and make our job of telling others about Christianity much more difficult.

I think this should apply to all ideas. The government should not interfere, except to keep citizens from infringing on others' rights to gather information about ideas and decide for themselves.