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To: ConservingFreedom

No, laws can’t and don’t make people moral. Morality comes from God and is internal.

Laws can only work from the outside and they can’t even change a person, as the number of people who blatantly flaunt them demonstrate.

What they do is provide for justice and protection when those without morals engage in immoral activity. When done right, it provides for a peaceful and safe society.


141 posted on 08/26/2014 3:45:12 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: metmom
What they [laws] do is provide for justice and protection when those without morals engage in immoral activity.

Who needs "protection" from, say, a guy sitting in his den smoking a joint?

143 posted on 08/27/2014 6:35:15 AM PDT by ConservingFreedom (A goverrnment strong enough to impose your standards is strong enough to ban them.)
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