The State should not forbid inter-racial marriage. God allows inter-racial marriage, because marriage is a covenant based on creed and ethics, and not on race or color. Nowhere does the Bible condemn inter-racial marriage. In fact, Moses was married to a black woman, an Ethiopian, which caused a serious conflict in Israel (Num. 12:1), and over which God defended Moses.
- Ray R. Sutton, Second Chance: Biblical Principles of Divorce and Remarriage, 220-21 at http://www.garynorth.com/freebooks.

In Deut. 18:14-17, notice what God groups together: the amassing of horses, wives, and gold. He forbids horses because they are offensive military weapons of the ancient world; He forbids His people to be the aggressors in war. He also forbids the hoarding of gold and silver, because His form of government is to be decentralized, not allowing a large, centralized bureaucratic system. Besides, the Lord knew that a Biblical government would not need a lot of money, if it were not the aggressor in war, and if it stayed out of domestic issues that were none of its concern. Finally, God forbids unlawful remarriage – actually multiple marriages – because the practical application is the same. He knew that a magistrate would collect many wives for one of three reasons: perverseness, power, and wealth. All three were a form of power totally unacceptable to Him. Consider what happened to Solomon, who was remarrying for political reasons (1 Ki. 11:1-13). Any State allowing for non-discretional remarriage is a power state, condoning its own right to be a power-broker.

- Ray R. Sutton, Second Chance: Biblical Principles of Divorce and Remarriage, 219-20 at http://www.garynorth.com/freebooks.

The Bible is clear: kidnapping carries the death penalty (Exo. 21:16). A society that honors God must inflict the highest possible penalty on kidnapping in order to discourage the practice. Because of this ever-present threat, it is legitimate for civil government to require adoption agencies to keep careful records about the source of supply for any child, and to limit legal adoptions to transactions with these conforming agencies.
- Ray R. Sutton, Who Owns the Family?: God or the State?, xxi, at http://www.garynorth.com/freebooks.

Long-term debts, such as school bonds, are against the Bible (Deut. 15:1f.; Rom. 13:8).
- Ray R. Sutton, Who Owns the Family?: God or the State?, 169, at http://www.garynorth.com/freebooks.

Minimum wage laws inflict the poor with a yoke of bondage. They make jobs illegal for low-skilled labor that don't have skills worth the minimum wage; they make it less likely that minorities will be hired by racist employers; and they are used by unions to keep the poor from outbidding them for jobs by offering to work for less. All this creates a class separation that generates anger among the lower class. Thus the minimum wage is contrary to the command to "loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke" (Isa. 58:6).
- George Grant, In the Shadow of Plenty, 124-28 at http://www.garynorth.com/freebooks.

Promiscuous entitlement handouts by the State, without obligations, expectations and responsibilities, oppress the poor by giving them an almost insurmountable disincentive to escape from poverty. They are contrary to the command to "loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke" (Isa. 58:6).
- George Grant, In the Shadow of Plenty, 123-24 at http://www.garynorth.com/freebooks.

Some have argued that since God fought for Israel, Israel was morally obligated to do nothing in its own defense. This argument is the same as saying that since God will take care of the poor, the poor must do nothing for themselves, and we are obligated to do nothing for them. In short, it does not wash. God fought for Abram, but since Abram was a man of means, Abram had to fight, too (Gen. 14:1f.). When David fought, God’s army fought right above him, but he was still ordered, by God, to fight (2 Sam. 5:23f.).
- James B. Jordan, Pacifism and the Old Testament: A Survey of Four Recent Books, The Theology of Christian Resistance (No. 2 WINTER, 1983) at 75, 88, at http://www.garynorth.com/freebooks.