So you think that it’s the job of government officials to give morality lessons and tell the citizenry how they should live their lives. Interesting.
Well Texansniper, are there any moral topics pertinent to their work that you’d like to ban folks from discussing? If so why?
Every law by its very presence sends a "morality" message. Drunk driving laws are a "morality" message. Statutory rape laws are a "morality" message. Even a yellow "yield" sign is a "morality" message concerning submission to another driver's right-of-way.
It sounds like you box up morality so tight that when people react to politicians' stories like this, it jumps at you like a Jack-in-the-box as if it was some sudden surprise.
All law is based on morality.
It is immoral to:
Lie
Cheat
Steal
Rob
Assault
Murder
Rape
Kidnap
etcetcetc
What liber(al)tarians really mean is this:
We want to be able to take drugs and party hearty and have any kind of sex, porn etc be legal, free, open and fine and dandy without any of that nasty judgementalism that makes us feel weird.