If you think value-based CoCs are fine, you shouldn't have a problem with this.
* Relieve the poor. * Clothe the naked. * Visit the sick.
... those seem like "liberal values" to me, at least on the American spectrum.
And lest this seem like a conservative jab - it is not intended in any such manner - I willingly admit that in those times the system worked completely different than it does now in ways that would create a great deal of consternation in both modern liberals AND conservatives.
Clothing and housing are artefacts of this world, not the kingdom of Christ. Ergo rendering unto Caesar what is caesar’s involves providing clothing and housing to those who do not have it, with the state as proxy and effort multiplier.
Also, whatever the state does, it accomplishes through the threat of violence to collect taxes. For a Christian, the ends are as important as the means.
Very divisive and unfounded IMHO.
In any case, you might have gained some understanding of why other people get upset, when _your_ values are imposed on them.
Let me try:
…airhockey?
If I, a european who've only visited the U.S. a handful of times, know more of U.S. politics than you do, I really don't know what to say.