<...Searching for a theocratic leadership may work for a church, but not for a post-industrial nation attempting to exist in the real world of today. For one, I would not like to see anything resembling this inflicted upon the US.

Having objective values does not imply an automatic theocracy. Leftists are disturbed by independent value systems, religious or otherwise, because their religion states that Thou Shalt Have No God Before The State.

I find it amusing that many leftists who are terrified of the "church" ruling their lives have no objections whatsoever to the state having total control over their existences. Maybe they think politicians are better human beings and can run things better than priests. Right. I'd just as soon have neither.

A real hoot are those whose greatest fear under a Republican administration is that abortion may be limited. That's pretty much it. Any other individual right can go to hell as far as they're concerned, as long as abortion is frequent and free. I wonder what the Founding Fathers would think if they knew this would be the litmus test for good government some day. Of course, since they were Evil White Men, none of their thousands of words of philosophy and thoughts on human liberty mean anything anyway.