Political Quotes

“to reiterate, we make moral decisions on this floor every day. We decide what things are legal, what things are illegal. We do so based on a variety of things, but morality is certainly one component of that. The idea that we have no right to pass laws that are moral, then we should eliminate the laws against killing, we should eliminate the laws against rape. Those are all based upon the fact we believe those acts are harmful and immoral and therefore we pass laws to proscribe them. I do not think we want to kick ourselves out of the business of stopping things that are immoral in this country by passing laws to proscribe them. Believe it or not, some people actually do not do immoral things because there are laws against them. I suggest that this idea that we have no right to pass moral judgment is the greatest canard that I have heard across this country. I hear it all the time, that we should absent ourselves from this moral debate. It is exactly where this debate should occur.”