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Originally Posted by Jerrek
What, can't you see? Do I need to spell it out?
You guys are advocating government legislating morality. Then, you fully support and condone the act of executing people for adultary in a culture where the government mandated it to be illegal and punishable by death. (The punishment is irrelevant, so don't drag this into the discussion.)
I hold the opposite view. Government should NOT legislate morality because it infringes on individual rights.
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IIRC in cases like this, the government (in our country, and presumably the United States and Canada) often creates laws to represent the morality of the time. Therefore, in this case, morality controls the law, not the other way around.
Anyway, I haven't read any bill of rights, but I am sure that having sex with your mother is not one of them.