The biggest step is to return to a popular acknowledgement of the Lord, and nowhere does this call for, or need, a “theocracy.”
Simple solution: the government should figure out benefits to acceptable unions, but marriages can be the province of churches and they can define what each church will accept, or won’t accept. Never shall the twain meet.
Or said another way, the State can join people for benefits, but the State doesn’t even talk about marriage.
Yes, exactly. Where people internalize God’s Law and God’s love, the only role for government will be for administrative matters. But humanity in this present age does not have that desire and so we must have governments that can only threaten death, making this age “the administration of death” twice over.
“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
– John Adams
If people can government themselves, there is no need for an external force to perform that function. Contrariwise, if they cannot or will not govern themselves, then what? Somalia or South Chicago comes to mind.