“If the Catholic Church were the OFFICIAL Church of the US,”
An unconstitutional situation
“a Protestant or fallen-away Catholic would not be allowed to rule at all.”
Also unconstitutional. That niggling ‘no religious test’ policy.
“Nor would such heretics have the right to vote, speak, or assemble in public.”
Violating a number of articles and amendments to the Constitution.
“In the ideal Catholic State, candidates would not be elected based on popular votes, but based on morally correct choices.”
So, whoever picks the correct morals picks the president. VERY unAmerican.
“Morally correct choices are choices that would allow people to freely pick the objective [Catholic] good,”
So, evolution but not abortion, no freedom of religion, and gun ownership is up to the pope, or whichever cardinal has the authority to define ‘Objective good.’
“with the complete and accurate picture of objective facts and objective [ie Catholic] Truth, both divine and human, and would execute laws that are morally objectively [ie Catholic]correct.”
We had this! It was called the Dark Ages!
“The State would have the correct moral guidance, because only the Catholic Church has the fullness of understanding of human dignity to base laws on.”
This is the same church that would not give a married woman the ability to use condoms in having sex with her AIDS-infected husband. Big surprise, she contracted AIDS and died from it… And the RCC BEATIFIED HER! For accepting the sex advice of sexless priests rather than medical advice from actual doctors.
This is a moral guidance i do not wish to have.
“If another religion, or a combination of religions, or constantly shifting popular manipulated consensuses were to decide, morality of executing laws would be [as is now] at best haphazard, or erratic, with only selective efforcement of laws and the law-making would frequently be inconsistent and contradictory to objective human dignity.”
But it would beat the holy shit out of a theocracy, I’m thinking.