Wednesday, January 19, 2005

Yes, You CAN Legislate Morality

You've heard it time after time from the left when the government tries to pass legislation aimed at curbing immoral behavior -- "You can't legislate morality!" That's not only wrong, it's stupid. Is murder immoral? Do we have laws against murder? Is rape immoral? Do we have laws against rape? Is theft immoral? Do we have laws against theft? Obviously the government CAN legislate morality. What the government cannot do is INSTILL morality through legislation. In some of the most repressive governments in the world, like China, Vietnam, Laos, Cuba, etc, the number-one problem is corruption. The more laws they pass, the more laws there are to break. Morality MUST be instilled through social mores. Then it is codified into law. If those social mores break down, the government can pass all the legislation it wants and it will not halt the breakdown of society. It is when the government inacts laws that do NOT legislate morality -- such as seat belt laws, no-smoking laws, laws that regulate how much water you can have in your toilet tank -- that it becomes repressive. One of the stories that never made it into the mainstream media (gee, I wonder why) is that soon after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Russian military contacted our military with a request to help them establish a chaplain service. They were scared to death that after more than 80 years of living in a godless country, that the military would be uncontrollable. And what is the left in this country doing? They are breaking down the very institutions that provide us with a moral compass. They are conducting a jihad against religions. The ACLU and NAMBLA are working jowl to jowl to knock down age of consent laws in every state. ANY attempt to bring the discussion of social mores into the public arena is met with howls of protest. And what has this brought us? Generation after generation of increasingly amoral monsters. "Doctors" who get rich aborting babies, mothers who kill their children, children who kill their parents, grade school kids who rape and assault, and on, and on, and on. The future of this country is clear as crystal to everyone but the knuckleheaded liberals. With the destruction of moral institutions, the government will have to pass more and more laws to control society. The more laws that are passed the more laws that are broken. But that will suit them. Leftists love repressive government. Ask the governments of China, Vietnam, Laos, Cuba etc.