Pastor Chuck? In the event you read this, stand up and make your other side into a man! Sure, you are a man in the way that you have guts, and stand up in the face of opposition and fight. Yes, you are a man in that kind of a way. Now be a man in the Constitutional way. Take any politician or Government official to task for harm he has done to you or others. Make a claim for damages from him in court, MAN-to-MAN, common law, without representation, and with the tribunal of you, him, and the jury (excluding the magistrate/judge). If you do this, then you will become a real man.

Ahhh... and why would you expect anything different. The entirety of the Christian religious system is based on authoritarian principles. But that is the basis of your religion. The first and foremost commandment is OBEY. Obey what? Obey who? Why god of course. But god does not talk to many of us, so we have to obey his representatives here on earth. And as YOUR bible says, in Romans 13, we are to obey our rulers. And of course, men love power and authority. How could you possibly have expected anything else from organized Christian cultures. The few that are not this way, like the Amish, are very tiny, and even they are authoritarian within their group. So if you have a complaint, take it up with the guy in the mirror