In a moral Vacuum, Power and Doubt Rule All

One of the disastrous effects of allegedly morals-free legislation is that it tends to produce deep and widespread doubt in persons across the culture about what is right and wrong, which leaves only a resort to power as a way out of our moral dilemmas.  In a moral vacuum, power and doubt rule all.  Doubt makes us unsure of ourselves and our beliefs; power makes those who have it despotic rulers over those who do not.  Without morality in law, we know less well and less surely what is right.  If we are ignorant about what is right and wrong, we can raise no compelling argument against evil, or even know it when we see it.  Our ignorance makes it so.

Michael Bauman, “Separating Morality From Law,” Christian Research Journal, Vol. 21/No. 3, p.40