Two different subjects, really.
Subject 1: Mary's being pregnant is really NOYB.
Subject 2: I think there are a whole heck of a lot more important things to be concerned about than legislating morality.
..it just depends on whose morals will be legislated.
My county tried to pass a form of Planned Parenthood Sex Ed Curriculum 15 years ago....
I was involved in the schools as a parent and sat on the School Improvement Committee...
I-(plus parents/teachers countywide)- received a copy of this curriculum for review to essentially approve it before it was sent to our school board.
It was already a 'done deal' as far as Florida's legislature was concerned.
But teachers/principals(covertly).. & parents, business folk, clergy, across the board kind of folks, etc... across our very long county...
..started organizing/networking to prevent this curriculum.
You see, we didn't want them to legislate this kind of morality in our county.
The bottom line, we were able to get 400 concerned individuals to the school board meetings to present their grievances and also request the board to consider an alternate curriculum that promoted abstinence only.
They rejected our curriculum.....but turned around and rewrote theirs to reflect ours almost word for word!...
And it still stands.
First of all I wish Mary Cheney and her baby the best. A cursory reading of my posts is witness to that. Second of all, evidently it is your business to tell me what is my business. You seeing a problem there pal?
Subject 2: I think there are a whole heck of a lot more important things to be concerned about than legislating morality.
That's because you're ignorant of American and the legislative process. Every law has moral components. Name one that doesn't. I've issued this challenge umpteen times members of the "you can't legislate morality" caucus and I've yet to see the challenge met. I have no doubt that you will fail to meet it as well.
FYI, we have elections to determine whose moral precepts will be making next terms laws. I know that news may be shocking but there you have it.
Subject 2: I think there are a whole heck of a lot more important things to be concerned about than legislating morality.
I always respond to "you can't legislate morality" by asking "what else do we legislate?".
What libertine-arians really mean is:
We don't want the government (fed, state, county or municipal) placing any limits on sexual libertinism. We want the right to **** it if it moves. Or even if it doesn't, and we also want to have the right to never hear anyone criticizing us about our behavior.
That's what they really mean.