There definitely is a right and wrong. Anyone that goes out to the theater to see the new Batman movie can acknowledge this. The only blockbuster movies you have are these superheroes. Why? Because they are people fighting for truth, justice and, dare I say it, the American way, that it is good conquering evil, that good doesn't somehow or another become evil. It is tempted to become evil but it doesn't.
You speak of law. Law is not a true indicator of what is intrinsically right or wrong. Hitler's first law when coming to power was forbidding Jews to bathe with Aryans. It was a law. It was perfectly legal. But it was wrong. There is something beyond what people believe and are taught about what is good and what is evil. It transcends cultures. Sure, in governments hands, any moral code has the chance to become enforced by police power. That's what liberty and freedom is supposed to prevent. In this day and age of the new morality of political correctness, new laws are being written to give certain groups extra privileges not available to all. In enlightened Europe, hate speech is punishable by police action in several countries. In the US, special "hate" crimes have been added to the books to make punishment more severe if it is caused by hatred.
You seem to want to target fundamentalist theists in your response, and I am not sure if you are singling them out....or if you are using this as an example. Progressives are just as guilty of doing this through political correctness and the forcing of a new morality upon the masses.
When gay marriage is legal, will I, an heterosexual male be allowed to marry my best friend, another heterosexual male so that I can help him out by putting him on my insurance while he is battling cancer? Can me and all my friends marry each other for the same or different reasons? Where does this end?
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