The States and localities did prohibit them prior to 1973. Only an authoritarian government of force could impose them.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3005522/posts
It’s better to have individual states decide, but if you live in a liberal state like NY(where I live) you still end up having moral atrocities forced in your face.
Even worse, is a crazy system where the US supreme court gets to play God and decide right and wrong and what they believe is freedom
From the words of the late Blessed Bishop Fulton Sheen...
“The State Becomes a nurse only in those civilizations in which citizens have lost a knowledge of Divine Truth and love. Sick of constantly making choices that never perfect or bring peace to their hearts and souls, they surrender their choice to a dictator. Communism is the tragedy of freedom. A false liberalism, which leaves a man free to choose anything without a standard of right and wrong, eventually produces a chaos. Along comes communism to organize that chaos.”-Bishop Fulton Sheen
More from The Late Bishop Sheen -who saw the moral demise we now live in
“What Nietzsche once said as an individual has become true of a world power: “Evil, be thou my good.” By becoming indifferent to the hard, fast line which divides justice from injustice, right from wrong, the Western world has ceased to be militant about those political virtues
When all these evidences of a broken dream are upon us, some try to drug the public conscience by telling them that Progress is still with us provided: First, we get rid of God; second, we preserve the right to climb into any bed; and third, that we be allowed to make money by pornography.”
-†- Fulton J. Sheen D.D., Ph. D., ‘Bishop Sheen Writes’;November 1975.