[LightBeam]

. . . as long as it wasn't a Catholic one. Or in New England, an Anglican one. Or in Virginia, a Puritan one. The "simple fact of the matter" is that you can't overlook that when you make your grand, sweeping generalization about this subject. Which Christian religious influence was, or is, the correct one? Do the Mormons have it right? The Presbyterians? The Unitarians? The Methodists? The Baptists? The Seventh-Day Adventists? The Congregationalists? Or are we supposed to believe that some amalgamation, or overlapping, of all of these Protestant sects have it right? And if so, what's the proper equation for blending it all together?

America should be governed under Christian morality. Most of the denominations you mention there aren't even Christian. With the exception of some Baptists.

In sum, while a certain morality should be the underpinning of criminal law, morality in and of itself should not dictate criminal law. Where morality and law overlap and intersect is generally a happy place, and a good one, but just as you cannot get grain from whiskey even though you can get whiskey from grain, you cannot get morality from law, even though you can extract law from morality.

The morality that we extract law from should be Christian morality. That means no murder, theft, obscenity, contraception, prostitution, sodomy, murder, etc.

[Hemingway's Ghost]

America should be governed under Christian morality. Most of the denominations you mention there aren't even Christian. With the exception of some Baptists.

So Catholics aren't even Christians, according to you? My, won't the Pope be surprised.

Of course, you've inadvertently demonstrated exactly the point I've been trying to make on this thread.

The morality that we extract law from should be Christian morality. That means no murder, theft, obscenity, contraception, prostitution, sodomy, murder, etc.

Why should I, or anyone else believe, that you are the authority on what constitutes Christian morality? You don't even believe some of the churches I identified above are Christian---I'm sure the members of those churches would beg to differ.