On Religion and Government

Over at our Monastery of Miscellaneous Musings, there have been a few posts on the recent swarm of gays getting "married". There was a comment in this one that prompted a response. Here's that comment.

...I'd take much greater alarmed interest to this ever rising to the level of "constitutional ammendment timber", as that would be a clear injection of religion into the government framework...

As stated before: Government out of religion; Religion out of government.

Here's my response.

Laws are the codification of morality. That is, we have made murder illegal because we believe it is immoral. Without religion as a basis, from what do you derive your morality and from that your laws? Secular Germany has one answer.