The magistrate’s job is not to “create the conditions” in which fathers can do their work. That language is the open door to the nanny state.Scripture assigns the civil magistrate a narrow task: to be a terror to those who do evil and a praise to those who do good (Romans 13:3–4; 1 Peter 2:14). He is to establish justice by punishing actual crimes defined by God’s Law. He is not commissioned to order society so that fathers can more easily feed, clothe, educate, or protect their children. Peace, order, and the conditions that allow fathers to fulfill their responsibilities are the byproducts of justice, not the magistrate’s assigned task. When he punishes actual evil according to God’s standard, those good conditions follow. When he instead tries to engineer the conditions themselves, he steps outside his God-given role and begins to play father. Once you say the magistrate’s role is to create the right conditions for family life, you have given him a blank check. He can then claim authority over immigration, education, employment, housing, health, and nearly every other area of life under the banner of “protecting and ordering.”

"Winning" without obedience to God's Law-Word is losing.