{"id":42096,"date":"2014-02-26T06:22:28","date_gmt":"2014-02-26T12:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=42096"},"modified":"2014-02-26T06:22:28","modified_gmt":"2014-02-26T12:22:28","slug":"to-those-who-say-you-cant-legislate-morality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=42096","title":{"rendered":"To Those Who Say &#8220;You Can&#8217;t Legislate Morality&#8221;&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;and keeping in mind that I&#8217;m speaking in general, not necessarily about the &#8220;gay marriage&#8221; thing (and further keeping in mind that I barely believe in\u00a0<em>straight<\/em>\u00a0marriage as it&#8217;s currently done, much less the gay variety), let&#8217;s try a little thought experiment.<\/p>\n<p>The next time someone offends you, carry out an honor killing (whatever your ethnic background, it&#8217;s probably been part of your culture at some point in the near or distant past).<\/p>\n<p>See how very much we <em>do<\/em> legislate morality. \u00a0And pretty damn successfully.<\/p>\n<p>Honor killing is an integral part of many cultures&#8217; version of &#8220;morality&#8221; even today (and most cultures, if you go back far enough). \u00a0 Ours, recently (as in &#8220;within the past 100 years&#8221; in some parts of the country) decided it&#8217;s not any more. \u00a0And they legislated it.<\/p>\n<p>Ditto owning slaves, or having multiple spouses &#8211; although there&#8217;s no logical reason we won&#8217;t have the latter back within a generation.<\/p>\n<p>That slogan &#8220;you can&#8217;t legislature morality&#8221; has always bugged me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;and keeping in mind that I&#8217;m speaking in general, not necessarily about the &#8220;gay marriage&#8221; thing (and further keeping in mind that I barely believe in\u00a0straight\u00a0marriage as it&#8217;s currently done, much less the gay variety), let&#8217;s try a little thought experiment. The next time someone offends you, carry out an honor killing (whatever your ethnic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-universe-and-everything"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42096"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42098,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42096\/revisions\/42098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}