I think it comes down to asking people to be honest.
What I have seen is that the Christian Right has a skewed view of government in that on one hand they can clearly see that regarding money(Taxes, Redistribution of Wealth, ect...) does not amount to "charity" as those like Barack Obama and his spiritual advisory in Jim Wallis distort and quite frankly lie when speaking of the Gospel of Christ.
However, when it comes to social issues I believe they stand
on hypocritical ground, unable or unwilling to see the truth.
God has given every man, woman, and child Free Will to do as they please. To worship and follow HIM or not and so forth. Yet, as Ron Paul has pointed out, you can not regulate morality which is something many want to do. And to take it one step further, I think many would rather give over authority to the government than take the reigns for with they(being the Church) have to vested with, if via the government they can legislate morality. Hence, having the law to stop abortion is easier than appealing to the hearts of people in loving kindness and understanding, sadden by the fact that you could never reach all(meaning no matter what you did abortion would never completely stop) but respect the God given free will each person has.
And as for the Christian Left, as I spoke about with Obama and the Jim Wallis type, Redistribution of Wealth/Collectivism via force IS NOT "charity". Charity is not something that is forcibly taken but that is given of one's own free will. They have very much indeed tried to legislate morality as well, as we see with the Welfare System. This is where they have already abdicated authority to the government that was charged and given to them by God. The common slam from the regarding the "poor" against the Right is false for the fact that Christ called on Christians as individuals and of the Church to care for the poor and needy, not through a bureaucratic government that forces revenue from a people without consent and call it "charity". For them it is easier to have a law than appeal to people in loving kindness and understand about the plight of those poor and needy. Far far far less would use and abuse the true charity of others as they would and do with the supposed "charity" of a forced revenue to foster a Welfare State(that keep the poor poor, unmotivated, and steal from others).
The Christian Right & Christian Left have a lot to answer for and would help the world tremendously if they got honest with themselves and true about what Christ was and is saying.
