You can’t legislate morality.
But if you do, then arrest adulterers and fornicators too.
Those are DEVASTATING to the family.
But build a @#$#$ of a lot new prisons.
The intent of the Founding Fathers was to have a society that was filled with people who would be free to choose morality of their free will, not to have a society where anything goes. That was a chief underpinning of the religious freedoms in the First Amendment.
The very notion of Constitutional law is to protect morality, BTW. An immoral society is a criminal one and cannot stand.
BS.
The phrase “you cannot legislate morality” was originally about legislating a perfect society into existence, about legislating perfectly moral people. It is about the limits of what laws can achieve rather than about the ability to just proscribe against foul deeds. You can forbid odious acts. It was a phrase coined by thinking people who wanted a moral society but recognized you cannot chase after the wind, not those who were libertine and grossly immoral who might insist you shouldn’t even proscribe against certain acts.
But in modern times the phrase was used in the culture war to basically demand moral people surrender to immoral. Its misuse and abuse has reached the point been it is parroted, and has been for years, by the very people who are otherwise willing to resist the tide of evil and corruption.
You may note that the mavens of PC who would gleefully do unto us Deplorables are in fact completely okay with legislating every nuance of life in their zeal to create a perfect society as they see such, for example, no issue with legislating a “fair” society according to their ideas of social justice.
Only regulating sex and whatever lends itself to having more sex (like abortion on demand) is off the table to them, off limits.
That is the opposite of the nation at its birth when most most everything was lawful for citizens unless it was proscribed, forbidden, and sex was most definitely seen as a matter for common sense laws ... for at least these helped to protect the nation and its society if only by putting the official stamp of disapproval on excesses and perversions.
Such things used to be illegal indeed, but became “legal” thanks to judicial activism and anti-religious fervor whipped up by communistic agitation.
But if you do, then arrest adulterers and fornicators too.
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Much easier to just maim or kill them. Unless of course they are someone important like a scientist, physician, or engineer. Then a good beating along with the confiscation of some of their property will ussually suffice.
Sorry...I was just channeling my inner Stalin.