[metmom]

But we don't criminalize sins, not generally.

Of course, we do. Every law on the books that I can think of is to prevent someone from doing something wrong.

Our laws are generally aimed at protecting the person or property of another from being victimized.

It criminalizes things like murder, theft, destruction of property. IOW, sin.

[Citizen Blade]

My point was that even though we are a predominantly Judeo-Christian country, we have criminalized very few of the sins from the Bible. We have, of course, criminalized conduct that leads to harm to others and such actions are certainly sins in the Bible.

Heck, we only criminalize 3 or 4 of the 10 Commandments. Sodomy, though certainly a sin, falls into the category of sins like blaspemy (which we do not criminalize), rather than murder (which we do).