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Politics : High Tolerance Plasticity
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To: kodiak_bull who wrote (22127)11/3/2004 4:08:05 PM
From: The Ox  Read Replies (1) of 23153
 
I fully understand your point but I think mine is (possibly) being missed by semantics. My question is do we "NEED" our government to legislate morality? The question is NOT is it possible or probable?

Local zoning is understandable but also gets used by intolerant people to fulfill their pursuit of "morality enforcement" on others. There are extremely obvious issues with respect to forbidding the discharging of lethal weapons within a city's limits. There is also a very big difference in what a local community chooses as it's "community standards" and the federal government implementing a similar "national standard".

Even with democratic majorities, local communities still have limits in what or who they can censor. Simply because you have a majority does not imply that you can "do whatever you please". For example, just because your town is mostly made up of one religion does not allow you to forbid other religions from practicing within your town.

There are differences between creating laws that have the intention of keeping a community's rights or well being at it's core (no parking on the street overnight or no parking on a sidewalk) and a law that intentionally discriminates (no parking of church owned vehicles). Can the town create such legislation? Sure, until someone challenges it. Many states have created legislation restricting what the local community can and can't implement in the way of discriminatory zoning laws.
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