The phrase "moral legislation" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to legal or policy initiatives designed to promote standards or values deemed to be morally right or desirable. For example, "The government has proposed new moral legislation to combat gender-based violence."
As part of the Augustan programme to restore traditional morality and social order, moral legislation attempted to regulate the conduct of men and women as a means of promoting "family values".
Indeed, many people tend to think that to avoid illiberal conclusions about moral legislation one must reject legal moralism as such.
He shines a light on the many contradictions of Augustus' character: the emperor introduced moral legislation, to discourage extra-marital affairs.
Writing in the New Yorker, Meghan O'Rourke criticised Mr Keller for treating Ms Adams' "personal choices as an occasion for moral legislation".
But, as Keller barely pauses to acknowledge, such collective issues break down into millions of complex individual realities — realities that go largely ignored in his Op-Ed, which treats Adams's personal choices as an occasion for moral legislation about the wisdom of resigning oneself to death.
This was not the result of moral legislation de haute en bas (and nor was it the result of leadership given by any religious group or church: indeed, the contrary!), but the outcome of the debate society has with itself about what is good and right, what is acceptable, and why.
This effectively decrees the end of all morals legislation.
He said that the decision "effectively decrees the end of all morals legislation" and made same-sex marriage, which the majority opinion did not discuss, a logical if not inevitable next step.
Justice Antonin Scalia's barnstorming dissent — joined by Justice Clarence Thomas and Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist — accused the majority of taking "sides in the culture war" and decrying the "end of all morals legislation"; Scalia warned ominously that the majority had opened the door to "judicial imposition of homosexual marriage".
Texas Supreme Court ruling, which "effectively decree[d] the end of all morals legislation," these statutes would not stand up in any court today.
It is, however, appropriate to discuss what kind of moral principles legislation should try to promote.
