Seeing as how America is supposedly the "Land of the Free", the question I pose to all of you is "What should we legislate?"

Frankly, I think the government should not do much more then regulate the army and the police force, support certain programs, and regulate the highways.

From what I can see, government should:

Fund the military
Fund the police force
Fund the highways and roads
Fund the schools, and make sure that all schools are funded equally
Fund the medical system
Set down basic laws (anti-theft, anti-murder, etc. etc.)

Pretty much everything else I don't think the government has any business in. The issue of marriage? Give a Civil Union to consenting adults that want it. The issue of abortion? So long as the concept exists there will be abortions, be it legally or illegally. Stay out.

We live in a free country. While I may intensely dislike abortion, for example, I am pragmatic enough to realize that it will happen anyways and I have no right to push what seems to be my particular moral attitude on another. I may see it as murder, but many do not and so long as such a view-point is common, it will always be there. Thus, I say, don't bother legislating. I don't believe the government should really have much of a say in most of if not all of these matters.

What do you think?