“Really? In a free society like ours you want to give the government the power to regulate sexual activity between adults?”
Until 1963....the entire US had laws prohibiting same sex intercourse. It was during the long slow gradual social decay thru 2003 that such laws disappeared. In fact a flip flop SCOTUS was the last gasp for morality.
“The Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of sodomy laws in Bowers v. Hardwick in 1986. However, in 2003, the Supreme Court reversed the decision with Lawrence v. Texas, invalidating sodomy laws in the remaining 14 states.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodomy_laws_in_the_United_States
Morality laws were so because the Declaration of Independence, the cornerstone and only source of legitimacy for the Federal or any level of government declared us a protestant Christian nation under he laws of Nature and Nature’s God. God appears five times (some argue 6) in the Declaration. Read it.
Deviant sexuality is abhorrent to Nature as it does not replenish the species....and to Nature’s God as detailed in numerous locations of His revealed Laws in Scripture.
The stripping of these morality laws and the conjuring of “no fault divorce” along with the conditioning of the general public to accept it all has driven the collapse of the family unit and with it most of our societal ills.
The family is God’s first commandment and basis of all governance. Read Genesis. Man+woman=children=family. Several families are a clan; several clans are a tribe; several tribes are a nation. Read more of Genesis and then Judges.
Children in single-parent homes at rates of 3 to 11 times experience the following:
lower live birth-rates
higher death rates
higher out of wedlock rate
higher early pregnancy rate
higher abortion rate
higher diagnosed depression,
higher diagnosed emotional stress
greater difficulties in school.
higher absenteeism
higher drop out rate
lower college entrance rates
greater arrest and conviction rate
greater death by violent means
greater death or impairment due to drugs
greater rape perps and victimization
far lower income
Lots more, but I tire of typing…..
It is just an ugly, ugly outcome.
https://nydivorcefirm.com/single-parent-households-does-affect-children/
Rates in homo households is even worse. (no cite but true from memory, look it up)
So, if making people keep their pants zipped outside of marriage and discourage acts inside marriage whose primary purpose is other than procreation of healthy, happy children can reverse these civilization ending trends...then do it as it was done before.
I am tired of seeing the widespread breeding of feral animals whose sole contribution to society is to eat me out of my wealth and property…...before the dying young or killing decent people before killing themselves.
All for “Free Love”. Really?
Western Civilization has Sharia Law of sorts…...only it is called VIRTUE.
And right is right and wrong remains wrong even if only God is against it.
I agree with you that the breakdown of the family has had horrible consequences for our society, but I don’t think we can put that genie back in the bottle. I would actually argue that, in the western world, we have the most individual freedom for the most classes of people that any society at anytime has had. Now the question is can a society like that survive? I don’t know it’s never been done before.
I would disagree that the founders created a Protestant Christian nation. They were explicit about a lot of things and they would have been explicit about that if they wanted it to be so. These men were heavily influenced by the enlightenment. Were most of them some denomination of Christianity? Yes. Though Thomas Jefferson attended a church most of his life but read his writings and you can see he was a deist. There is a reason they use creater and God in the Declaration and Constitution. In fact our government was the first government ever formed without a specific religion as the “official” religion. They even went farther and stated that there would be no religious test for public office. There has been several attempts over the course of our nations history to add a constitutional amendment explicitly declaring us a Christian nation. They have all failed.