Some people are pro-choice on the abortion issue because they believe government should have no say in the matter. I disagree. I also disagree with the notion that the mother's so-called right to ...

Providing legal solutions to complicated moral dilemmas is not always ethical. Such legislation can inadvertently compound existing problems and lead to new ones. Efforts intended to end white slave ...

Even though the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution prohibits a state religion and prohibits the state from making religious beliefs illegal, early Supreme Court opinions used the phrase ...

Morality, ethics, and law are three guides for human relations. Morality is primarily a private matter despite the fact that many laws are based, to some extent, on what some would consider morality.

Sometimes, folks who haven’t put much thought into it will say, "You can’t legislate morality," when in fact, morality is legislated all the time. Morality and legality do not exist in separate, ...

Cognizant of the fact that democracies usually adapt to changing times, I’m also aware that governments have always legislated morality. The Republican Party was founded specifically to address the ...

America is a land of empty promises. We often make bold claims that, when it comes down to it, we have no intention to keep. This fact is the best explanation for the proliferation of fine print and ...

If you were born after 1960, read this. Four reporters — three women and one man — were discussing the General Assembly’s open season on women’s rights, specifically the Valentine’s Day passage of two ...

I'd like to offer a few words regarding the Times’ Feb. 24-26 editorial ["Legislating morality a slippery slope"]. The editorial addresses an audience of those readers "born after 1960." How odd it is ...

To give a more concrete example to S@nDOk@n's views of "static v.s dynamism" - look towards Muslim nations/areas in the Middle East region who are already currently enforcing strict Islamic ...

When tolerance and acceptance is no longer practiced, we will surely become a state and country on the way to ruin. Please tell me why just because some citizens oppose an idea, a lifestyle, someone ...