“Legislating morality will not make people any more moral, and only makes the government a bigger nanny state.”
We have a winner.
By “legislating morality,” the would-be legislator must first ask “Whose morality?” And when you get into those types of semantics, you are without doubt on your way to sustaining, if not further growing, a tyrannical and overbearing nanny state.
Check out the Rad-Islams: They “legislate” their brand of morality all the time. But to them, they are the only ones with true moral standing - so, in their minds, why shouldn’t they force their moral beliefs on others?
Sheer nonsense. Every law made to insure a civil society is at it's core about morality. Theft, assault, perjury, etc. are the way we codify those moral objections into law. Without morality all laws are useless and unworkable as people would feel no need to abide by them.
"Our constitution was made for a moral and religious people; it is wholly inadequate for any other." - John Adams