“...But if they had any moral objections, they should be willing to apply the principle in general. If it’s wrong for them, it’s wrong for others, too...”
Then we will end up with totalitarian society. Someone will decide for you how to live your life. History shows us again and again where we going to end up if individual liberties are not protected. Maybe you should care about thousands of children who killed every day around the world..
Humanist tripe.
There is a standard. It is God’s standard, revealed to us in His Word.
No, I’m not talking about a theocracy. But you have to have a standard and a basis for your law, or else it morphs and changes according to the whims of the zeitgeist,
which is exactly what we have today.