“We have no government armed in power capable of contending in human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Exactly - government can't make a people moral.
A govt cant make people moral, but cant they encourage it?
Encouragement doesn't happen at the point of a gun or through the bars of a cell. I'm all for encouragement of morality - but I'm skeptical that government is the right entity for the job.
Encouragement, like allowing children to pray in school, and at football games. Like acknowledging the same God that we acknowledge in our Constitution and not prohibiting or running from it.