You're missing one little thing 'bout the Adams quote.
If you have a virtuous people, they will reflect their virtue by passing laws to uphold that virtue: but if they are corrupt, the laws alone won't save them.
The real answer is the voluntary restoration of Christianity from the ground up.
Over the hand-wringing of the atheists, Communists, homosexuals, man-hating feminists, and libertines which have been carefully nurtured in our secular schools for so many years.
One can only imagine how different the world would have been if we had nuked Stalin in '46 when we had the chance...
Cheers!
I’ll be devil’s advocate by saying that we’re corrupt in the eyes of Democrats, always trying to tell them the way to live and imposing our abstinence on them.
It’s a circular argument that can never be won by either side, or a third party, or anyone else that tries. The only way to make as many happy as possible is to let states have free reign as to the will of their citizens. If NY and CA want gay marriage, let them. If citizens in TX want to be able to duel someone, if both are competent, agreeing parties, then let them as long as they’re in the open and are not able to harm bystanders.