The only startling view here that I can discern is that you have missed the last five hundred or so years of history. England and the actions of the Reformation started a governmental movement that effectively eliminated a theocracy--A government ruled by or subject to religious authority. I am sure you will admit there is no religion--such as, for example, Mormonism, that elicits a litmus test, a kind of Inquisition, as it were, on each of our laws, seeing to it that they meet the necessary threshold of religious conformation to that particular brand of religion. That would be a theocracy.
We do however, have a Judeo-Christian culture and civililzation, yes even still and just by a thread; and the plurality of that feature of our population which embraces that culture, coupled with our republican form of government, accounts for our widely held views. Even if the courts, special interest groups, and certain elites don't like it. V's wife.
I didn't mean to startle you. I wouldn't argue your point at all, as I tend to agree, but Grumpster is in a different place than what you describe - he would deny a public forum to those whose views *he* deems "immoral". Sorry, that scares me. And, respectfully, using a religious test to determine what can be seen or heard *is* theocratic.