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Why the moralists that said the government had the power to regulate deviant behavior.

You mean like our Founders that banned sodomy/homosexuality, adultery and, in some states, shacking up?

This nation was great because it was founded upon Judeo-Christianity and principle that rights come from God and can't be taken away by the Creator.

No nation would survive, let alone thrive, if rooted in libertarianism. Legalizing deviant behavior puts nations on the same road Sodom and Gomorrah and Roman Empire ended up going down.

yeah those moralists. Power has no morals. The power can be used by moral upstanding leaders or if the society goes the way of deviants that same power can be used against you. When you give the government power over morals instead of in the church where it belongs you give them power to set whichever morals they deem correct irregardless of your thinking. It was a blind-spot of the founders because in their society the deviants were not a threat and they never thought of them being so many that they would ever take over the levers of power.

No the country was and is great because the founders understood that power corrupts and crafted a government on the concept of checks and balances and limited power. You give a judeo Christan leader absolute power and that person will turn into a dictator just like every other human on this earth. Period. That is why these Christian men gave us freedom of religion and freedom of speech and 3 branches of government and it is also why they understood those rights came form God not corrupt man.

The roman empire collapsed because they switched from a republic to a dictatorship and citizenship become worthless. You do understand the greatest period of Rome expansion and growth was before Christ was even born right at a time that they worshiped many gods like Mars and Venus? In fact Rome was founded 750 years before Christ.