Originally Posted by CatholicCrusader
Question for you: Society still generally accepts that it is bad and wrong for a husband or wife to screw around on their spouse, and religiously speaking it is also a sin. Would you make it a crime and throw people in jail for having an affair?
Originally Posted by aCultureWarrior
So you're asking me if a behavior (adultery) that destroys marriages, families and lives should be illegal?
If that's how you want to phrase it.
First of all I have to take issue with your statement that "society generally accepts that it is bad and wrong for a husband or wife to screw around on their spouse...".
The adultery website Ashley Madison is a very popular website in the United States (45
MILLION members). A few years back the television 'Desperate Housewives" was top rated, even though one of it's main themes was adultery. Etc. etc. etc.
We've had a couple of adulterers in the White House. Bill Clinton was caught having an extra marital affair during his Presidency and his popularity soared afterwards. The current Degenerate in Chief has had numerous extra marital affairs prior to being elected President (yet he was elected by people like you. Need I bring up your dozen or more pro Trump threads?).
Moral depravity is the "in thing" in our once God-fearing nation.
I am drawing an equivalent to your position on homosexuals. If you think that homosexual activity should be criminalized then I must assume that adultery should also be criminalized by your standards.
While one behavior is immoral (adultery) and the other one is both immoral and a sexual depravity (homosexuality), both had been criminalized throughout western civilization and during the vast majority of US history. While I'm honored that you think that I set the "standard" for moral laws, all credit goes to God and the Holy Bible's teachings on sexual sins and the role of civil government.
I am also curious, where is that in the Constitution, that such things are the purview of government.
One only read the writings of the Founding Fathers to understand their views on homosexuality.
http://lasalettejourney.blogspot.com/2009/07/founding-fathers-and-homosexuality.html
AND: If you bring up pedophile acts, I would remind you that the criminality there actually has to do with the fact that kids are kids, not adults; the criminality is not with the act itself.
Laws can be and have been changed. Homosexuality was once a felony in the US. Age of sexual consent laws can be lowered or abolished.
Rights are being stripped from parents. As we've seen the NAMBLA faction of the LGBTQueer movement has outlawed therapy for youths with homosexual desires and/or gender confusion. Some States allow youths as young as 15 to get abortions or to get gender reassignment surgery without parental consent.
The terms "gay youth" and "transgender youth" are household words in our morally depraved society.
The times they are a changing. I'm just pointing out in this 5 part thread that they're not changing for the betterment of individuals and society, and have given the remedy for the cancer that has consumed our nation.