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It is tried over and over again – and it fails every time.  The Law, as says Paul, “is powerless to oppose the flesh.”  But still the temptation remains to fix it all with a law.  The most effective mode of practicing this heresy, of course, is to pick a minority and enforce the law on them alone.  As the Family Research Council apparently intends, to judge from this exchange between Peter Sprigg and Chris Matthews on Hardball, highlighted by Andrew Sullivan:

Matthews:   Do you think we should outlaw gay behavior?

Sprigg:  Well, I think certainly it’s defensible –

Matthews:  I’m just asking you:  Should we outlaw gay behavior?

Sprigg:  I think that the Supreme Court decision in Lawrence v. Texas which overturned, uh, the sodomy laws in this country was wrongly decided.  I think there would be a place for criminal sanctions against homosexual behavior.

Matthews:  So we should outlaw gay behavior.

Sprigg:  Uh, yes!  [laughs]

I would love to see these guys get a little courage and go on television advocating the criminalization of adultery: round ’em up and throw ’em in jail, John Edwards, Newt Gingrich, Bill Clinton, Tiger Woods, Mark Sanford, David Paterson, the whole lot of ’em.  We may not have any politicians or Christian ministers left, but we’ll be living by God’s law.  And since we’re going to get Biblical, let’s use Jesus’ own standard for adultery: anyone who looks at another with lust in his heart: then they can come for me and everybody else.  When all of society is in jail, we can start reasoning again on what the Law actually is for.  “All are guilty before all.”

The American Family Association recommends the same course.  Insanity.  The terror of it all is the simple dictum, “With the measure ye measure, so shall ye be measured.”  What sane person could possibly want that?