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You completely misunderstand the phrase 'you cannot legislate morality.' It is a negative: that is, one cannot make me love, (say) Sinkspur, by law.

Were your interpretation the correct one, homicide statutes would be eliminated. OK by me, as long as it's only in California that it happens...

Ok I admit it you have confused me...I was expressing a negative.. you can't legislate morality..only laws...

homicide can be justifiable such as when a prisoner is lawfully executed..so I don't have a clue as to what you are trying to say.

I was trying to say that people can make laws making certain things illegal but to some people they may or may not be moral....what is and is not moral may be different to different people and even different to themselves at different times in their lives or under different circumstances....everyone does not have the same views of morality...

I know what you were trying to say--but you need to work on articulation. It is not "homicide" to execute someone on death row, for example. Homicide is against the law--executions (at least in some States) are not.

In general, the natural moral law is in agreement with common sense. You know better than to worship money (I hope;) and you know that you owe something (why not worship) to Someone Who could be God. So do it. You should not work 7-day weeks. You should honor your parents, as difficult as it might be--and the older they get, the more honor you should give them. You should not kill the innocent, nor jump your neighbor's daughter or wife. You should not cheat and steal (Congress will be jealous.) You should not be working on fantasies about strange dames, nor strange boys--nor should you give a rotten fig if your neighbor has a pair of gold-plated Mercedes SL500's in the driveway because his Mercedes gull-wings are in the garage.

Not too hard to follow, all common-sense.

After those, we can argue. I personally think 80MPH should be the speed limit; others like 55.