[Hermann the Cherusker]

Nobody is giving the government "more power". They've always had it since the beginning of the Republic and even before in the Colonial period.

The government has the right to make laws to influence moral actions. The purpose of the law is to promote virtue and punish vice.

[jmc813]

The government has the right to make laws to influence moral actions. The purpose of the law is to promote virtue and punish vice.

The danger in this line of thinking is that the government includes far-leftists who believe that furthering the gay agenda in schools is "virtue", and owning guns is a "vice".

[Orangedog]

The government has the right to make laws to influence moral actions. The purpose of the law is to promote virtue and punish vice.

Which has failed miserably almost every time it has tried:

War on alcohol-Created organized crime...War on drugs-Drug use has never been higher, and as a bonus, the 4th, 5th, and 10th Amendments became "inconvenient" to the IRS, DEA, FBI and local SWAT teams. War on sodomy-What unintended consequences should we be willing hand down to the next several generations in the name of THIS war?