Aren’t you changing the goalposts a trifle? In one jurisdiction, it’s a matter of national law. In American Hickistan, it’s a matter of Sheriff Bubba’s mob justice.
It’s a bad thing either way, of course; but American reactionaries haven’t been doing well at the national level of late, and their attempts at local imposition tend to either be extralegal or overturned once appealed high enough to get away from the provinces(eg. Texas sodomy laws).
