text: God did take significant steps toward the abolition of slavery; part of the Jubilee is that slaves were freed every 50  years and their owners were required by God to give them a kind of severance pay. Nowhere short of the New Earth does God totally do away with all social wrongs. So long as humanity is made up of sinners that would be impossible. 
  
  I don't recall a text which said "justice should not favor the poor over the rich." All the texts I am aware of say the opposite. 
  
  The religious liberty issue is very real. It does impose a limit on how far we can go with imposing Biblical ethics on non-believers or those who believe differently. Most of the Christian social justice advocates that I am aware of are not interested in passing laws, but in convincing people to voluntarily adopt Jubilee principles, etc. That was, in fact, the range of discussion in the meeting that the news article reported on which started all these comments.