The current controversy over the Obama administration's determination that religious hospitals involved in taking federal money must participate in family planning is just another example of the fact that we live under Christian Sharia law in America (http://www.foxnews.com/...). The other major example is the war radical Christians have waged against gay rights and marriage. Some right wing spokespersons have claimed this current health law is an issue of religious freedom and a few liberals have joined them. The idea here is that by providing birth control and information to people who wanted it this could compromise the religious beliefs of Christians. This is certainly a bastardization of the concept, it is like saying that if you have to see a Jewish synagogue that undermines your religious freedom to believe in only one religious view. The same argument was made by right wing fanatics over the Islamic mosque in New York.
People should recall that radical Christians demanded that inoculation was against the will of god and that medicine in general intervened in god's punishment of sin.
Arnold Toynbee in his book, Change and Habit, 1966, describes the condition of the West and most of the West's colonies as the "tyranny of Christianity." This is not just the brutal control of the rule of the Church triumphant from the 4th century A.D. to the Wars of the Reformation, but also the political and legal struggle after it in each country over what application of Christian rule would obtain and this is detailed in H. Richard Niebuhr's book, The Social Sources of Denominationalism, 1957. In much of Europe, however, there was a tradition resulting from the horrors of the Inquisition, the excesses of the clergy (which we still see today in their crimes against children), and the slaughter of the 30 Years War. That tradition was anti-cleric and caused many nations of Europe to create laws to limit the participation and influence of religion in daily life. The Founders of the American Revolution instilled this tradition into the design of the separation of church and state, a separation that was undermined by freeing religion from taxation so long as religious organizations remained true to the pledge of abstinence from meddling in politics and civic discord (http://www.christiananswers.net/...). This pledge has long now been broken and we have seen churches and church leaders, especially of the Evangelical branches use radio and TV to become rich and politically powerful. But some religious leaders chaff at the disestablishment history of America and are striving for a new establishment of religion as the law of the land replacing civil law, that is a Christian sharia law.
In fact Christian groups like Jerry Falwell have established separate law schools like Liberty Law School to train lawyers to defend religious organizations breaking down the separation tradition (http://www.npr.org/...). So when radical Christians complain about Islamic sharia law we should remind them that we have been struggling against and suffering under Christianity's sharia law. The only difference is that Christians (like Shia and Sunnis) have been fighting over whose Christian sharia law will be imposed once disestablishment ends.