You can embrace the Judeo/Christian culture that allowed America to thrive; or, you can invent something else.
Clearly, you insist on something else.
I didn’t actually insist on anything. I’m trying to figure out how to reduce evil. If you use the law to repress some kinds of evil, you get another evil. If you use even more law to repress the second evil, you get a larger government, which results in even more evil.
Perhaps this is a “render unto Caesar” issue, where we should try to deal with the problems of morality by changing people’s hearts rather than by putting them in jail. With the latter solution we just seem to be ending up with bigger jails — not less immoral behavior — until the whole country becomes a prison.