[DennisP]

I would not argue that right and wrong are defined by the law. What I am saying is that the law is defined by the law. We don't punish people for immoral behavior, only for breaking the law.

This is the only fair and democratic way to handle things. The law is defined by a legislature which (in theory at least) is responsive to public opinion on what should be considered acceptable behavior.

This does not mean the law is always correct about what's moral. There are many legal behaviors that I think are immoral, and many illegal behaviors that I think are morally fine. But if we put people in jail for doing things that somebody thinks is immoral, without going through the democratic process to make that actually illegal, then the rights that people have in a democracy are being infringed.