King of Kings

"That may be why we hear so much about "theocracy" coming from the left. Christ is the King who sets His subjects free: not only from the bonds of sin, but also from the bonds of sinners. To the extent that men acknowledge Christ as King, they will submit themselves to the liberating laws of virtue; they will more readily obey legitimate government, and in general not need a whole lot of governing, and will more readily rebel against laws that are no laws, as Aquinas puts it. Sheep in the fold, and soldiers in the field -- that is what they will be. But if you are a member of the governing class, and you do not acknowledge your King, you will resent the constraint upon your "freedom" to constrain the legitimate freedom of everybody else. You want to clone human beings, although most of your little subjects find it appalling; and the King blocks your way. You want to redefine marriage, against the judgment of your little subjects; and again the King blocks your way. You want to engineer the future by dictating what shall be taught to all children, by whom, and how; and there stands the King, cordoned by the little ones whom He has called to Himself. The King's sheep are soldiers too; but you don't want those sheep, you want your own"
-Anthony Esolen