[IronJack]

laws against sodomy, adultery and incest should remain on the books largely to protect the institution of heterosexual marriage.

Laws against sodomy do nothing to protect marriage. As many married people commit sodomy as single people, so the cause and effect is specious.

Laws regarding incest exist to protect the overall gene pool, since children resulting from incestuous conception often magnify genetic defects that would be diluted from conception outside the bloodline. These laws have no effect on marriage, nor were they ever designed to.

The only laws dealing directly with heterosexual marriage are those regarding adultery, which, by definition, only exists outside marriage and can thus be considered a direct threat to the institution. Yet few states have laws against adultery any more, and the few that do enforce them so irregularly (if at all) as to render them moot.

God's laws, not the state's, should govern morality.

[Publius6961]

Laws regarding incest exist to protect the overall gene pool, since children resulting from incestuous conception often magnify genetic defects that would be diluted from conception outside the bloodline. These laws have no effect on marriage, nor were they ever designed to.

Am I the only one who sees the moronic and perverse (and pervert) logic in these two sentences?

[Old Professer]

As many married people commit sodomy as single people, so the cause and effect is specious.

Even if your statement were supported by fact, it remains inaccurate; this is a poor use of the word, specious; actually, a specious use of it.

[gitmo]

God's laws, not the state's, should govern morality.

Most felonies, as defined by the states, are morality laws. Stealing, murder, perjury: those all come out of that list of top 10 that God wrote in stone and gave to Moses.

In this article, the neighbor was arrested and given 15 days for bearing false witness.

[Kevin Curry]

God's laws, not the state's, should govern morality.

Al laws are based in morality. Did someone take your good sense out, seal it up in a mayonnaise jar, and bury it in Harry Browne's cellar??