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Old 06-05-2008, 04:09 PM
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Re: Legislating Morality?
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Originally Posted by Baron1710 View Post
I had a unique experience by going to a Christian law school. One of the classes we had was on the foundations of law. And we discussed this extensively, and what most of us came up with was this. You shouldn't legislate anything that is unenforceable. Laws against homosexuality probably are going to be ineffective, but laws against gay marriage are enforceable. Laws against adultery are generally hard to enforce and do we really want adultery police. In a nut shell what I took from the morality part of the class is don't legislate the unenforceable.
I agree. It's very hard to enforce such laws.

BTW a ban against gay marriages does not necessarily mean it is illegal to be gay and married. A gay person can go to a gay preacher and do a wedding ceremony and they are not going to be hauled off to jail. It means the state does not officially recognize it as a marriage
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