Bill Bennett and Robert Bork don't always seem to think so.
As for self-righteous moralizing, please explain to me why, for instance, child molestation is morally wrong. I ask because I'm assuming you're an atheist.
A Deist, actually. Child molestation is wrong because it violates the rights of the molested child. Isn't it obvious?
Anyway, if you are an atheistic materialist, you believe that all things precede in cause-and-effect manner from the Big Bang. Thus, how can what a rapist, or a murderer, or a child molester do be described as "evil"? Their actions were pre-determined as much as a domino falling is predetermined by all the dominoes behind it. This is why, as the article states, you see leftists saying that "society is responsible" when crimes are committed. They don't believe that we have free will.
So, how could an child molester's actions be morally wrong if he's doing nothing more than what he's pre-determined to do? That's the point.
Cheers, here's to friendly debate.