Are you saying that the Puritans, John Calvin, and the Founders were wrong?
We condemn murder's, thieves, Robbers, and rapists every day. Homosexuals, Fornicators and Adulterers fall in the same category.
Look at the 1815, The Pennsylvania Supreme Court decision again: It reflects the case law of the day, and the attitude on which our nation was founded.)
This court is...invested with power to punish not only open violations of decency and morality, but also whatever secretly tends to undermine the principles of society... Whatever tends to the destruction of morality, in general, may be punishable criminally. Crimes are public offenses, not because they are perpetrated publically, but because their effect is to injure the public. Buglary, though done in secret, is a public offense; and secretly destroying fences is indictable.
Hence it follows, that an offense may be punishable, if in it's nature and by it's example, it tends to the corruption or morals; although it not be committed in public.
Although every immoral act, such as lying, ect... is not indictable, yet where the offense charged is destructive of morality in general...it is punishable at common law. The destruction of morality renders the power of government invalid...
No man is permitted to corrupt the morals of the people, secret poision cannot be thus desseminated.
Sure you were..here is your own quote that I was responding to;
FF578"Jesus has the power to forgive, Jesus had the right to tell the adulteress she was forgiven because Jesus is Almighty God. He also said "Go and Sin no more."
So you were talking about God's forgiveness..... unless you don't consider Jesus to be God incarnate.
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