[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".

[Hermann the Cherusker]

That's why you need to have a society based on a common moral perspective first, and why multiculturalism is so much nonesense. Many of our new Muslim citizens see nothing wrong with polygamy and sex with children.

The wrecking of the common American moral perspective by liberals was done with definite cause and is an enormous crime for which they cannot be forgiven. The restoration, should it ever occur, will require the suspending of all mercy towards these people. The liberal choice - "live in a society full of immorality - just don't do it yourself if you object" is no choice at all really.