How cool is this?  My very own Blog to sally forth with whatever is on my mind at any particular time.  I can regale my contemporaries and frighten small children and animals with my insight.  Cool.

I really had not idea where I should start.  It feels like I've just started a Diary that instead of keeping hidden under my mattress I've openly placed it where my nosy siblings would be enticed into opening and reading.  So be it!

I can finally get this off my chest.  What is it?  How ofter have you heard the phrase, "You can't legislate morality!"  Anybody else see the problem with this?  At one time you heard it as an almost constant refrain from those on the left who like the idea of wholesale infanticide as a basic 'right'. 

Really?  You can't legislate morality?   How's that work out?  Read this next REALLY carefully:  ALL MORALITY IS LEGISLATED MORALITY.  Yikes!  So obviously you CAN legislate morality and it's done all the time.  It's 'immoral' to rape and steal and murder and, well, all that other stuff that we would rather folks not do to other folks.

So, if you can legislate morality, then what is it that those users of this phrase actually meant to say?  I'm not sure, but from a Judeo-Christian standpoint you would say the following:  You can't legislate OBEDIENCE.  Makes more sense doesn't  it?  You see 'we' CAN in fact tell 'you' that it's not good for you to steal your neighbors stuff, but we are powerless to legislate a manner in which we can force you to obey that rule.  We can wish, pray, cajole, etc., but we can't 'guarantee' that anyone will follow our rule.

The fact is that those who used or are still using the above offensive phrase really mean, "I don't want you to legislate YOUR morality for me and mine."  Which in a free society is a perfectly legitimate position.  I personally don't want the 'Left' to tell me what doctor I 'have' to go to or that I 'have' to give the government my guns or that marriage is no longer between just one man and one woman, but can be redefined ad nauseum until the term marriage has no more real meaning at all.  fin