Moral Outcomes Need Previous Cultivation

Moral outcomes are not to be expected from a legal system into which morality was never programmed, never cultivated.  Except by the happiest of chances, moral results — in other words, just results — do not grow from a field in which those seeds were never planted and nurtured.  If a society neglects to plant morality in the legal code, they must not expect to harvest it in court, or in the character of those citizens whose moral nurture is provided partly by the laws of the society in which they are raised.

Michael Bauman, “Separating Morality From Law,” Christian Research Journal, Vol. 21/No. 3, p.39