[Jeff Higgins]

You guys are all missing the point entirely. One of government's major roles in any society is precisely TO legislate morality. The morality of how we treat and interact with each other. This morality is manifested in the laws that we, as members of that society, make through our government and agree to live under. The nature of such law is to reflect the morale compass of the society that enacts them. It's unnavoidable; there has to be some baseline to work from.

The debate originating from the left today is just a smokescreen. They cry loudly that "government should not legislate morality" when in fact what they mean is that our laws should be changed to reflect their morality. They understand that the majority of society rejects their values, and that they have a very tough sell to gain any measure of support for those values.

So their strategy has shifted from "accept our values" to "don't force your values upon us". While on the surface this sounds like a more reasonable request, it is in fact the very same thing, repackaged in a more palatable guise. The goal has not changed. They want broad acceptance of their fringe values by society as a whole. They want that society, that enacts law through their government, to change the law to suit them. This fringe element on the left does not have the numbers to effect the change they would like (neither does the fringe element on the right, thank God), so they are resorting to this chicanery to try to sneak it past the majority, to impose their belief structure upon the rest of us.