[legman]

There is something more important here than the specific moral and philisophical arguments of this issue.

The larger issue is this. What is the standard of morality? This is a religious argument, regardless of how one tries to position it. Whether it is a standard proposed by Judeo/Christians or a standard proposed by Secular Humanists, it is a standard that is religiously held and preached.

The humanists would like to paint Judeo/Christians as being intolerant -- as trying to impose their version of morality on everyone else. Yet they are intolerant of people like Senator Santorum.

This is bigger than this particular attack. It is an attack on people of Theistic faith and the very foundation of our nation's heritage.

[headsonpikes]

To paraphrase you, 'the larger issue is this. What is the reach of Government'?

The world is not perfectable; although it is tempting to employ the awesome power of the State to improve the world and its inhabitants, every attempt to do so has resulted in evils unimaginable to the naive idealists who championed these vain crusades.

Choose your own examples; they are innumerable.