[Cicero]

Oh, nonsense. How often are the anti-adultery statutes invoked? How often are the anti sodomy statutes invoked? Probably the recent case in Texas was a set-up.

The government has a perfect right to encourage behavior that will build a more stable society, keep families together, and protect children. If they go overboard enforcing the law against private behavior, they will soon be thrown out of office. But that doesn't mean we should say that anything goes, and one form of behavior is as good as another. It's not, because children and families get hurt and the whole society suffers.

There is such a thing as a happy mean between extremes.

[sinkspur]

But that doesn't mean we should say that anything goes, and one form of behavior is as good as another.

Anything does go if laws are not enforced.

Why have laws on the books that are not enforced?

[ninenot]

There is such a thing as a happy mean between extremes

...and not by coincidence the mean is a just and merciful enforcement of the 10 Commandments.