offenses against public morality implies more than personal choice. how so?

Answer 1

The concept of public morality is dependent on the premise that everyone in the community shares the same moral code, which is almost always based on their chosen religion.

Going against public morality therefore means going against the set of rules that the community has collectively decided to adopt. And the argument is that it's not a matter of personal choice, because the majority gets to decide what's moral.

The problem with this argument, in the US, is that under our Constitution, it's not valid to base laws solely on religious grounds. So, there should not be any laws based solely on a majority determination of what is moral or not.

Unforutnately, enough people want to be able to enforce their religious beliefs on others that they've found ways around this prohibition, by making pretextual excuses for those laws.

Answer 2

Public morality is an oxymoron. We desperately need the govt to stay out of our morality. All govt should do is protect people from crime, the country from attack and terrorists and stay out of our private lives. Any time the govt starts legislating morality, morality declines and suffers. We need to support freedom