Originally Posted by
AHZ
It seems to me that jesus clearly wants the golden rule to be a basis for law or at least morality.
The "Golden Rule" pre-dates Jesus Christ as a written idea, and what Christ wishes means nothing to non-Christians rendering it an exclusive rule. Try selling it as "proposed" law based on its idealism rather than a single religion, inclusive for all people.
“When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.” Edumnd Burke