Don't Complain That Laws Are Morals-Based

People tend to complain that laws are morals-based only when the law in question is based upon a moral valuation with which they disagree.  To be consistent, those who object to morals-based laws would have to raise the same objection to all laws whatsoever, including the laws they themselves support.  But they do not.  They never do.  When their own morals are encoded in law, they raise not even the faintest whimper of protest.  Yet when laws are passed that they dislike, they say almost nothing else.

Michael Bauman, “Separating Morality From Law,” Christian Research Journal, Vol. 21/No. 3, p.22