Exactly!!!
The so-con faction here on FR loves to share that John Adams quote: "Our Constitution was made only......" without following through with its implication, that the Constitution cannot make an immoral people into a moral one.
That transformation can take place only via the winning of hearts and minds at the retail, face to face level.
Social (and all) conservatives need to steer clear of the liberal temptation to try and make men virtuous by legislative enactment.
That was put very well. It took me far more words. Thanks.
That's not what SoCons are attempting to do. We simply want to undo the legislative enactments that liberals have besotted America with. Enactments like gays in the military, gay marriages, abortion, and so on. But you know what? Libertarians are opposing us. Calling us big gubmint nanny-staters as they demand to know where in the Constitution is the basis for our views on porn, drugs, marriage as a federal issue and so on.
Libs (libertarians) actually fear our brand of morality being dominant in our US government as much as they fear the leftist brand. Unbelievable!