[McBuff]

My liberal friends will be delighted to hear that they're free to use the state to increase taxes to fight immoral selfishness or to create speech codes opposed to hate speech or speech that implies a judging of others.

You are jumping to your own conclusion and you are not understanding the point I made.

The founders were not suggesting the need for the imposition of virtue via the State or via legislation. Virtue was to be "self-imposed." It is the foundation of "self-government" which is the root of freedom. A free people play a role in the government of the self. Hence the importance of religious freedom and a public square that is frequented by a people of virtue and faith. ..those for whom the constitution was written. (read the full Adam's quote)

[narses]

The founders were not suggesting the need for the imposition of virtue via the State or via legislation.

This is what the Libertine lobby would have you believe. The reality is at odds with that claim.