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Legislating Morality: Is It Wise? Is It Legal? Is It Possible? is unavailable, but you can change that!

America’s moral decline is not secret. An alarming number of moral and cultural problems have exploded in our country since 1960—a period when the standards of morality expressed in our laws and customs have been relaxed, abandoned, or judicially overruled. Conventional wisdom says laws cannot stem moral decline. Anyone who raises the prospect of legislation on the hot topics of our day...

Board of Directors to self-censor their products. In fact, after the executives refused even to answer whether they thought the music in question was below some minimum line of human decency, Bennett aimed right for the heart by asking them if they were “morally disabled.”2 This refusal to conduct self-censorship should come as no surprise. We’re living in a society in which people feel no obligation to control their own actions. Instead, we rationalize and justify every aberrant behavior under the
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