Unfortunately T, when most of the wishy washy middle/independent voters think of “Republicans” or “Conservatives” your philosophy is what comes to mind.
They think that you just want to impose your morals on others. They don’t like it. For the same reason we don’t like Socialists imposing their Gubmint control on us. Anyone who is 18+ and of voting age naturally rejects the idea of people telling them what to do. It’s human nature.
I thank you for thinking about what I said before answering with an ad hominem attack. I think we are on the same page and you get it.
In order to function in a free country there is one simple rule: Don’t directly harm anyone else.
And if you want to hang someone or stone them for violating this rule, you better be very careful. No junk science or creative prosecution.
That's the most shallow, adolescent argument I see on Free Republic. It really should be beneath all of us.
What are laws? I mean really, at the foundation of it, what are laws?
They're the codification of a society's morals. In our form of government, they're what the majority has judged immoral in their society.
Murder is illegal because it's morally wrong. The same with theft and rape. It's all morals.
The majority can and does "impose" its morality on the people. That's what government and the rule of law is.
So, the real question, the honest question, is where should the moral line be drawn? To either pretend that there isn't one in the law already, or that there shouldn't be, are both short-sighted, foolish angles.