A general public acceptance of Judeo-Christian ideas of good and evil has stood behind most American law. The problem with a democracy (even a representative one) is that it is only going to be as good as the “demographic.” It puts the responsibility with the people to embrace a valid goodness, or it will go all to hell as fast as the people do.
Personally, I insist that we have a bigger spiritual problem here. The tie between sex and marriage has been flouted every which way for decades before this present problem arrived on the scene. This is an opportunistic civic infection. It never had to be allowed room to grow, but then people would have had to be “spoil sports” about other licentiousness. They chose unwisely. The consequences have followed.
And even this is a sign of a bigger love problem, which is the need of acceptance of the love of God. No, of course this shouldn’t be legislated. That would be absurd. But what we do with our hearts, we can choose. And sometimes the Lord lets the results of refusing His love become pretty obvious before people get a clue.
I agree completely.
I don’t deny at all that our Constitution is derived from Christian values, and I support that. However, our laws aren’t outright written and enforced as such. (as Sharia Law is)