Laws should be fair, absolute, and pertain to everyone equally. Our government should make laws, with our approval, and then enforce them.
Questions of morality should be dealt with personally, or with the guidance of family, friends, or church, but YOU should decide whether you want that advice.
The law SHOULD NOT determine questions of morality. The government has no business in matters of morality.
Many people seem to think the government is there to safeguard our morality. Laws need not be moral. People do. Laws should regulate the
public's behavior, morals should regulate
personal behavior. If people were as moral as they portray themselves to be, we wouldn't need half of the laws that we have.
Here is the flip side of this story, from a European perspective:
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Quote[/b] ]Liechtenstein Rejects Anti-Abortion Measure
By HARRY ROSENBAUM
Associated Press Writer
Voters in this tiny Alpine principality on Sunday soundly rejected an initiative that critics said would have prevented abortion, birth control, assisted suicide and living wills.
Less than 20 percent of voters cast ballots in favor of the constitutional amendment, supported by the country's Roman Catholic archbishop, seeking to protect human life from "conception to natural death."
Instead, nearly 80 percent ratified a government counterproposal, which legal experts say brings the country's legal framework for issues such as abortion and birth control in line with European standards.
The amendment was launched by conservative groups to protest a government attempt last year to change legislation that permitted abortion only in limited cases such as when the mother's life is in danger.
The campaign was vicious for Liechtenstein, a tranquil mountaintop country the size of Washington, D.C., with 33,000 people.
Conservative Archbishop Wolfgang Haas campaigned heavily in favor of the amendment and called the counterproposal a "death melody."
Crown Prince Alois expressed sympathy for the initiative in an address earlier this year, but he was more moderate in the run-up to the vote and said he supported both proposals.
Liechtenstein, sandwiched between Austria and Switzerland, is famous chiefly for being a tax haven, and although it has passed laws to curb money-laundering, it has more registered companies than citizens.
Once a sovereign state of the Holy Roman Empire, Liechtenstein is about three-quarters Roman Catholic.
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Sounds like they've got the church/state question figured out.