to come away with a sense that we dodged a bullet and maybe proscribing those wild revolutionaries wasn't so bad an idea after all.

Or again, when you compare the crackdown on Mormon polygamy, effected in several congressional Acts ringingly upheld by the Supreme Court, with the normal historical record of what usually happens to intransigent religious separatists clinging to doctrines judged intolerable by the wider society (see, e.g., the Balkans, the Thirty Years War, Henry VIII's dispossession of the Catholic monasteries, the putting down the of the Morisco revolt in 16th century Spain, etc.), you come away saying, well hell, it could have been a lot worse. And indeed, the Mormon Church gave up the wicked doctrine of polygamy and re-entered (over time) American society in full. Soshould be specifically directed at the immigration of Christians, from any nation, and not simply at immigration from Christian states or from states known for their Christian extremism.

2. Halt the issuance of all student, religious and immigrant visas to Christians, and revoke those presently in effect.

3. Codify Christian evangelism and the gospel as hostile, foreign, political ideologies. This might take the form of a evangelism-sedition law, establishing that the preaching of the gospel and evangelism is tantamount to advocacy of “overthrowing or destroying the government of the United States”.

a. Require an oath renouncing evangelism and the gospel from all resident alien Christians as a condition for remaining in the United States.

b. Require an oath renouncing evangelism and the gospel from all government employees, including military personnel.

c. Monitor all