I got into a minor disagreement with someone on another thread...My opinion is that the government has no business legislating morality, and once they start, it is a slippery slope....morality is based upon the thought process of the individual (what is moral to me may be immoral to you) No person should be denied their civil rights, the biggest civil right being the right to breathe...case in point is abortion. Some would agrue that abortion is a moral issue, but I say it is not. Stopping a heart from beating is murder, and a basic civil rights issue. If I chose to hire a prostitue, this is a moral issue, with someone else dictating to me what is moral and what is not. As long as my actions do not interfere with or deny someone else their civil rights, it is nobodys business but my own.
Unfortunately, you appear to have fallen prey to the common delusion that “morality” refers to sexual morality only.
In fact, morality just means drawing a distinction between right and wrong of all kinds. So your decision that “No person should be denied their civil rights” is a moral issue based on a moral choice between right and wrong.
People claim “we can’t legislate morality,” but of course that’s just about all we do legislate. A law is passed prohibiting something because we think it is wrong, which is to say immoral.
What people who say “we can’t legislate morality” are really saying is “we can’t legislate sexual morality.” I’d sure like to hear a logical explanation why this one area of human interaction alone should be immune from legislation.