Here is what Thomas Jefferson thought of law:
"Of liberty I would say that, in the whole plenitude of its extent, it is unobstructed action according to our will. But rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law,' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual."
Of course we have the *right* to do wrong. People do *wrong* all the time. It is wrong to lie. how many people do you knwo that lie? It is wrong to commit adultery. How many people in this country commit adultery every day. We all have the right to do wrong. It is theocrats who want to take away our liberty and dictate to us what we can and cannot do - as the example of sharia law.
Freedom to choose is the meaning of free will. We have choice. And, as I have said so many times,I support the most freedom possible - the freedom to sin - the freedom to do wrong and to experience the consequences of our choices.
Are you, as others have on this thread, advocating that we go back into the past and live life as it was in colonial times?
No, actually, we're trying to prevent you and others like you from taking us back much further...to the civilizations that destroyed themselves by falling into debauchery and decay. I have no desire to see the American republic go the way of the Roman one, or of Sodom.