"But if you hoped to convince me that Roman Catholic dogma should be the basis for public policy in the United States of America, you failed."
That's clearly not my goal. Yes, we live in a truly democratic and free society--and for no specific religion or denomination's dogma should be the final arbiter of what is wrong for ALL of society.
This does NOT mean that it should NOT be taken into account. Indeed much of what the Church teaches a.) goes back to Christ, if not before, and b.) most all Protestant denominations were in general agreeement until the late 1940s.
Right now, I'm concerned with the issue from a Catholic standpoint, and not from the democratic or legal (at least not yet).
But if you want a brief and blunt answer on why this has exact relevance (theology aside), here it is:
Whether you (or anyone else, for that matter) admit it or not, the very fundamental core of American law--the very mantle on which the Constitution sits on is Judeo-Christian teaching. And what I outlined, while now (sadly) is only held by the Catholic Church, used to be a fundamental Christian teaching, and thus became part of the very core of who we are as a society and as a key principle of our law.
Yes, they definitely didn't have in-vitro fertilization back then. But the teaching that sex was holy and children are a gift from God did. And the Founding Fathers took that into account. Thus the principle stands just as vital and just as honored today in our country as it did 230+ years ago.
Whether we want to acknowledge it is a different matter...
Thank you for hoisting your strawman.
Have you contemplated about what you've written in light of the first amendment to the Constitution?