Daily Inspiration Quote by Jay Alan Sekulow

Sekulow’s line is less a philosophical claim than a legal-world power move: it reframes “you can’t legislate morality” as a dodge used by opponents who want their moral preferences to look neutral, pragmatic, or inevitable. By insisting that “legislation IS morality,” he collapses the comforting distinction between “values” and “policy.” Every law chooses winners and losers, sets boundaries around harm, defines what counts as a right, and decides which obligations are enforceable. That’s moral work, even when dressed up as technocratic housekeeping.

The subtext is strategic and combative. Sekulow, a lawyer steeped in constitutional conflict, isn’t inviting a seminar-room debate about meta-ethics; he’s arming allies in a culture-war courtroom. If law is already moral, then the question isn’t whether morals belong in government, but whose morals get coded into statutes and whose get dismissed as “private.” It’s a push to stop conceding rhetorical ground to secular liberal language that treats moral arguments as irrational or merely religious.

What makes the quote effective is its blunt reversal. It turns a familiar liberal admonition into an accusation: the people claiming neutrality are actually smuggling in their own moral framework (often framed as “rights,” “autonomy,” or “public health”). At the same time, it’s a deliberately simplifying provocation. Not all legislation is moral in the same way, and “morality” can mean anything from preventing violence to policing intimacy. Sekulow’s point is to force that latent moral premise into the open, where it can be fought over, voted on, and litigated.