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Are people more suspicious than they once were of moralism in public policy ? So Ross Douthat argues in a column about legalized gambling and marijuana. The spread of casinos is driven by states seeking revenue and gaming lobbyists pressing their agenda, whereas weed legalization is driven by activists, "influenced by empathy for the terminally ill, and hastened by public exhaustion with the drug war," Douthat writes. "But both have been made possible by the same trend in attitudes: the rise of a live-and-let-live social libertarianism , the weakening influence of both religious conservatism and liberal communitarianism, the growing suspicion of moralism in public policy." WE REJECT MORALS THAT FORBID HOMOSEXUALITY It's a plausible theory, but the last line about moralism makes me want to quibble. Maybe people want public policy to reflect their moral judgments as much as ever, but they no longer regard smoking marijuana or casino gamblin