” And you can’t legislate morality.”
The hell you can’t. Or at least you can legislate behavior. That is the point behind most common laws. Do (this), and face the consequences.
Great to hear you say that.
A college professor who was a terrible liberal was the first (much to his credit) to point that out to me. I've carried the thought with me ever since.
Our laws are or at least were drawn directly from history's great moral codes, first among them the Ten Commandments.
You can legislate ideals of morality as law but that doesn’t necessarily bring about morality per se. Even the punishment doesn’t necessarily bring about morality unless you have a majority of the incarcerated being “model prisoners” and then from their release continue to be “model citizens”.