[aconservaguy]

The role of government is to protect against invasion and keep order neither it nor the majority has any right to impose a moral agenda.

why not? Isn't morality a component of keeping order? It would seem that government imposes a de facto "moral agenda" by passing laws to promote order.

I would think that a society has a right to enforce it's own standards. Is there anything wrong with that? What are so bad the consequences that it has no right to do so?

[southern rock]

why not? Isn't morality a component of keeping order? It would seem that government imposes a de facto "moral agenda" by passing laws to promote order.

Government has a duty to enforce laws against stealing things and assaulting people (I.E. violating the rights of others). That is NOT the same as imposing morality.

[weikel]

Keeping order has to do with protecting the rights of others making lets say a law against citizens viewing porn in their own homes or in a red light district doesn't fit in the same category. Plus moral crusades cost money which translates into taxes.