[afuturegovernor]

A certain number of people will never steal a car simply because it is not moral. A certain percentage of people will steal cars because they want to (whether it is against the law or not.) But a great number of people are in the middle and will not steal a car because its against the law. The law against stealing cars is a deterrent to a great number of wishy-washy people. The same is true of other morality laws. Laws against stealing, rape, murder, arson, battery, DUI, and child abuse are all morality laws. I, as a conservative support laws of morality.

[Protagoras]

Laws against stealing, rape, murder, arson, battery, DUI, and child abuse are all morality laws.

Incorrect. Those crimes are violations of rights. Some things which violate rights are also immoral.

The only proper role of government in a free society is to defend individual rights and therefore laws which forbid the above listed crimes are the legitimate role of government.

[tdadams]

Laws against stealing, rape, murder, arson, battery, DUI, and child abuse are all morality laws.

NO they are not. Either you're obfuscating or you're lacking intellectual clarity. All those crimes you listed above will cause actual, tortious injury or loss to others.

Morality laws, in the context we're usually talking about on FR, attempt to prohibit private behavior that causes no actual harm to anyone but the person who decides to engage in it.