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And, once again, for those of you in Rio Linda ...
ALL behavioral legislation is an exercise in legislating morality, and a threat to punish those who behave immorally.
End of discussion.
OBTW, your argument was invented by the pro-abortion crowd, back in the early 1970s, to justify legalization of baby-killing. You're keeping very bad company.
Thanks for the explanation——As a Christian, I believe there’s God’s laws or moral laws. These are understood. Shall not murder, shall not steal, covet, etc. But the most important law is to “Love God more than anything”.
This covers all laws and as a follower of Christ we are convicted by the Holy Spirit and no man made law will make us moral....God does that. So I apologize as I was not and am not explaining clearly.
Here is what I was referring to in Romans 7 and in no WAY did I know “legislating morality” was a leftist talking point. Because if they were all followers of Christ the “abortionists” would not exist.
Romans 7:14-20—
14 We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin. 15 I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. 16 And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. 17 As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. 18 For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful nature.[c] For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. 19 For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing. 20 Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.