[Houmatt]

Democrat Rep. James P. Moran of Virginia commented, "The government has no business regulating or legislating morality

Then what the hell are we doing with laws the prohibit murder and theft? Those laws are taken directly from the Ten Commandments, which also means, of course, they violate the separation of church and state as well.

Open up those prison doors and let my people go!

[Snidely Whiplash]

Then what the hell are we doing with laws the prohibit murder and theft? Those laws are taken directly from the Ten Commandments, which also means, of course, they violate the separation of church and state as well.

Such laws can be justified on more than one basis. Laws prohibiting murder, theft, etc. existed independently of and prior to the writing of the Ten Commandments. The ancient Greeks, for one, had never heard of the God of Abraham, but somehow managed to come up with the same ideas.

Also, it's a lot different admitting Biblical law as an inspiration for law, as opposed to using Scripture directly as law. There are a helluva lot of other laws in the Old Testament that don't belong in a free society.

Snidely

[Dionysius]

Old Jimmy Moran sort of admits that what he wants to protect is immoral. So in his mind it must be a logical progression that the government has no business involving itself in decadence, degeneracy, abberations and abominations. I guess there should no longer be any "malum in se" only "malum prohibitum". Thank God we have idiots like Moran to show us the light.

[tdadams]

Then what the hell are we doing with laws the prohibit murder and theft?

It seems some people can't make the distinction between a moral objection and actual harm.

[Protagoras]

Those laws are taken directly from the Ten Commandments, which also means, of course, they violate the separation of church and state as well.

Why didn't they "take" them all? Do you support laws requiring adherence to all the ten commmadments?