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To: LuvFreeRepublic
You cannot legislate morality.

Utterly false. Morality is legislated every day. What IS the law but enforced morality? What are the laws about theft and robbery, but a codification of "Thou shall not steal"? What about legislation about "hate crimes", discouraging smoking in public, etc, etc?

The proper venue for legislation is to discourage actions which would tend to be harmful to society. Single motherhood is one of THE MOST DESTRUCTIVE activities to a modern society.

31 posted on 01/18/2012 9:54:32 AM PST by PapaBear3625 (During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.)
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To: PapaBear3625
Ok, let me make it a little bit clearer. In a free society which has certain rights relative to that freedom means that you cannot infringe on those rights because YOU want for force your morality on someone else.

My original comment was related to thinking anyone in this country would be ok with someone saying you cannot have a child if you are single and therefore, the only way to ensure you don't have a child if you are single means no sex if you are single. THAT kind of morality cannot be legislated.

The Puritans on this site can think it is possible to achieve their vision of how people will live their life, but it will never happen.

44 posted on 01/18/2012 11:42:17 AM PST by LuvFreeRepublic
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