2006-07-09 17:47:52 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Government
Brave New World
2006-07-11 12:10:28 · update #1
No. Its called "seperation of church and state".
2006-07-09 17:50:45 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Government doesn't have the "right" to make any laws at all. It doesn't have the "right" to collect taxes, declare war, or create any legislation at all. Government has powers, not rights. In this country, the powers of the government come from the people, first as delegated by the U.S. Constitution and the state constitutions, and second via the process of perpetually electing our representatives and holding popular referendums on ballot propositions.
Government CAN make laws banning abortion, sodomy, prostitution, cruelty toward animals, insider trading, and so on for the same reasons it can take a Biblical command like "Thou shalt not bare false witness" and translate that into laws against perjury, fraud, libel and slander. If that's what the people and their politicians want, government has the power to do it.
2006-07-10 01:01:35 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
States have the right to legislate morality as part of their Traditional Police Powers (health, safety, welfare, morality) unless federal law or the Supreme Court has placed an area of legislation out-of-bounds. For instance, in Loving v. Virginia the US Supreme Court struck down a Virginia law prohibiting inter-racial marriages, which was passed through Virginia's Police Powers to protect the morality of Virginia Citizens (1967).
2006-07-10 00:52:00 · answer #3 · answered by m137pay 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
---Yes. I believe in the Bible. In the Bible, kings and governors who enforced moral laws were esteemed highly. I think there are some things that are morally wrong even though they supposedly don't hurt the order of a society (e.g. sex with animals). I am talking about things that almost every religion considers wrong. Such things should be outlawed just because they are morally wrong, even if they don't seem to mess up the order.
---Also, the U.S. Consitution does not say that we can't make laws based on morality. Thus, our government can.
2006-07-10 00:56:36 · answer #4 · answered by friendofgod65451 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In my opinion there are two things that simply can't be legislated, "morality" and "common sense".
Enough said.
2006-07-10 00:51:24 · answer #5 · answered by gimpalomg 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋