Well there's your problem, one man's sin is another man's righteousness. I'm pretty sure the Muslims who blew up the World Trade Center thought they were righteous. And you'd find no shortage of people even today who agree with them. There literally isn't a single army in the history of mankind that didn't go to war thinking they were fighting for righteousness.
You're describing a theocracy, which was explicitly rejected by our founders, and only works if the vast majority of the population shares exactly the same religion and values.
And also isn't very free, because we're right back to "everything I like should be permitted, or maybe even compulsory, and everything I don't should send you straight to jail."
That kind of postmodernist subjectivism is, once again, precisely how we got to such a shitty point in our society.
This isn't subjective. Some things are just inherently evil. This isn't a pet peeve and trying to consign moral disagreements as such is disingenuous at best.
Crossdressing should be illegal to do in public, and concealing your biological sex for the purposes of entrapping others should be punishable by death. Not because I don't like it, but because the Venn diagram of crossdressers and pedophiles is practically a circle.
Well there's your problem, one man's sin is another man's righteousness. I'm pretty sure the Muslims who blew up the World Trade Center thought they were righteous. And you'd find no shortage of people even today who agree with them. There literally isn't a single army in the history of mankind that didn't go to war thinking they were fighting for righteousness.
You're describing a theocracy, which was explicitly rejected by our founders, and only works if the vast majority of the population shares exactly the same religion and values.
And also isn't very free, because we're right back to "everything I like should be permitted, or maybe even compulsory, and everything I don't should send you straight to jail."
More than a few states still had state religions after 1788.
That kind of postmodernist subjectivism is, once again, precisely how we got to such a shitty point in our society.
This isn't subjective. Some things are just inherently evil. This isn't a pet peeve and trying to consign moral disagreements as such is disingenuous at best.
Crossdressing should be illegal to do in public, and concealing your biological sex for the purposes of entrapping others should be punishable by death. Not because I don't like it, but because the Venn diagram of crossdressers and pedophiles is practically a circle.