One of the most important characteristics of governance in a truly liberal democracy, is the distinction between morality and legality. One has to carefully avoid the trap of trying to make illegal everything that could be considered immoral. Similarly, it is important not to try to enforce what one considers to be moral behavior. In a liberal democracy, the set of things immoral is much larger than the set of things made illegal.
I fear that the proportion of Americans who understand this distinction and its importance may be lower in recent years, than in the past. Particularly among the chattering elite, there is the dangerous illusion that it is possible and desirable to legislate morality. Taken to an extreme this is a death formula for civil society.