ABSTRACT
In the 19th Century, when John Stuart Mill and his conservative enemy Cardinal John Henry Newman were politically and intellectual active, it was simply a given that the law would enforce Christian or Biblical morality of social and cultural matters like abortion, homosexuality, drug use, euthanasia and suicide, pornography and a wide variety of other issues. Indeed, this had always been the case in Britain, the U.S. and other Western nations in ways that would be all but unthinkable today. Even at that time, though, Cardinal Newman was already afraid that the religious authorities were losing their traditional political and legal ...
