[beaversmom]

Don’t you see that the moral health of a nation affects the fiscal health?

[Ophiucus]

I don't quite agree with that but the moral health is not the purview of the government but of the private sector. A government committee is no way qualified to determine what is moral for a free individual.

That being said, a free republic requires a just and moral populace to survive. Our founders were unanimous in that view. One cannot legislate morality and to attempt so only limits freedom and personal responsibility.

Morality must reside within the individual. Any government that attempts to fetter the individual with laws of morality casts off the virtues of a republic and dons the cap of a despot. Thus, furthering the demise of the republic.

[thesetruths]

Right on.

We cannot abandon the unborn and expect any blessing. Ever.

It is ghoulish to use unborn babies as a political bargaining chip.

The right to life is non-negotiable.