What is considered sinful in one of the great religions to which citizens belong isn’t necessarily sinful in the others. Criminal law therefore cannot be based on the notion of sin; it is crimes that it must define.

Pierre Trudeau (1919–2000) Canadian politician
Memoirs, Part 1 “1919-1968, The Road to 24 Sussex Drive” (1993)

 
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