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Duration: 21 min 35 s
Description: Matt explains why the government does have a role in "legislating morality."

Laws are to protect ownership. I own my life, someone else can't take that. The government owns secrets to protect ownership of life so treason is illegal. 

I understood that the reason for laws were based in human rights. Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness. The laws were established to preserve the weak from having those rights taken away from the strong. If we're left without laws, there's nothing stopping people from taking my home and family away from me. If they can get through me, or any neighbors I may have that will help me, then they can do so. Yet the law prevents stuff like that from happening. I would consider the reason why killing is illegal is not because it's immoral but rather because it takes away ones right to life. Yet, with people expanding the definitions of what human rights are we get more and more complex questions to what the laws of the land should be. Is marriage a basic human right that the law should protect? Is sexual relations a basic human right that the law should prohibit or protect?

So would you say that adulterous relationships be illegal as well? Adultery is harmful in almost the exact same ways you gave for homosexual/incestious relationships.

The left only agrees to legislate morality if it is their own interpretation of morality. For example, the LGBT agenda is considered moral and the left viciously defends the legislation of that agenda. But allowing private prayer in schools? Woah boy.

Here is the dilemma... There are only three options of determining morality.  1. Theonomous - God sets right and wrong  2. Heteronomous - others (majority) sets right and wrong   3. Autonomous - self,  I set right and wrong.   Those are the ONLY three options, and so when we start the discussion at that point we quickly come to the realization that God is the only concrete foundation of right and wrong.  Now, the question moves to which God?  I would argue, and with great evidence, that the Judaeo Christian God proves to be the only true God.

Wasn't the goal of promoting the "natural rights of man" to demoralize laws and land their foundations in ethical considerations? I don't think it was successful, and the evidence that natural law on its own was insufficient exists in the utilization of Lex Rex, by Samuel Rutherford, by the Founding Fathers. Even natural law needs, in Ravi Zacharias' words, a Lawgiver. In any case, the basis for American law was natural law, and included the presupposition that natural law ultimately emanated from God.

Why do you lump beastiality and incest in with polygamy when the scriptures full of prophets who engaged in polygamy? Just curious.

These things have laws against them FOR OUR GOOD. We forget that, and just want what we want because it doesn't look like anyone will be harmed, but there is always payment for breaking laws. 

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Matt explains why the government does have a role in "legislating morality."

Yes, we should legislate morality - 8/12/16

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Yes, we should legislate morality - 8/12/16

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