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To: joe fonebone
this person said to me, and I quote, “ Since it is obvious that you have no morals, I have no problem forcing my moral standards upon you”.... now that is not only a scary quote, but a purebread socialist right there....

We already regulate morals, since the time of the founders. Murder, theft and rape were criminalized because they are immoral. Having a semantic debate over whether a certain law is based on a "moral standard" or not is useless and pointless. But abortion for instance is every bit as valid for the government to ban as murder, theft or rape. It's completely equivalent to those on a moral or legal scale. Bottom line, the states at least are allowed to regulate anything that isn't a constitutional right. We can have a debate about what laws are good, but defining one as being based on "morals" or not is meaninless. Some immoral behavior is good to regulate, others are not (such as ones related to free speech). So in some cases it is constitutionally correct to force ones morals on someone else (against murdered, rapists, thieves for example) and sometimes it's not.

48 posted on 03/11/2012 9:23:22 AM PDT by JediJones (The Divided States of Obama's Declaration of Dependence: Death, Taxes and the Pursuit of Crappiness)
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To: JediJones

morality vs. civil constitutionally guaranteed rights... you have the right to life (common sense here, not an issue of morality) liberty (see the bill of rights for those liberties guaranteed you) and the pursuit of happiness (that can and does include the items you work for and purchase)... murder, rape and theivery are not moral issues, they are civil rights issues.... you must have the ability to separate the two... give it a try (it is difficult to do)


61 posted on 03/12/2012 4:17:12 AM PDT by joe fonebone (Project Gunwalker, this will make watergate look like the warm up band......)
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