Do you really believe that "morality laws" have prevented us from going into the gutter? Do you think that drug laws have reduced the use of recreational drug use? Do you think that sodomy laws reduced the amount of homosexuality?
Democracy is designed for a moral people, but no form of government, nor amount of laws, can make a person, or a people, moral. Sharia is probably the ultimate form of government enforced morality. How's that working out?
Do you think that robbery laws have reduced the number of robberies?
Do you think that rape laws have reduced the number of rapes?
Do you think that murder laws have reduced the number of murders?
Do you think that anti-porn laws have reduced porn inspired crime?
We'll never know because no one ever comes forward and says "I would have done that except it was against the law. Your questions are pat libertarian tripe. They don't work on me.
Democracy is designed for a moral people,
Democracy is mob rule. I live in a Republic.
Sharia is probably the ultimate form of government enforced morality. How's that working out?
The last guy that pulled that line was banned.
You know, comparing moral people who support laws like we used to have against immorality, does not equate to sharia.
Almost every law on the books is a law that regulates moral behavior. Murder is a moral issue and illegal. Should we remove the laws for that because it has a religious basis?
What about theft? That's a moral issue grounded in religion.
Lying and perjury? Same there.
Vandalism and destruction of another's property? That's a moral issue based in religion.
Take a look at all the laws which regulated moral behavior at the time the Constitution was written. Those were not considered unconstitutional.
I've never seen it work out well for someone who implies that a legal system based on the Judeo-Christian value system is equivalent to islam and sharia.
Good luck with that.
Oh, and IBTZ.....
You libertarians are so predictable, sooner or later you ALWAYS compare conservatives to Islamofascists.
Our country since its inception had laws against obscenity and pornography, public displays of sexual behavior, homosexual acts and so on. Also divorce was very difficult to grant and socially looked down upon.
One by one, these legal prohibitions have fallen by the wayside thanks to leftists, a leftist SCOTUS and assisted by the communist founded ACLU.
Cause and effect go both ways.