Should the state legislate based on moral presumptions?

Is it right for parliament/congress/whatever to make laws in order to promote specific morals? Laws that prohibit things like murder, theft, noise control orders, libel etc. for example would not fall under this umbrella because they protect individual rights, so right to bodily autonomy, right to own property, right to quiet enjoyment of property and so on. Laws that would fall under the umbrella of a moral agenda are laws that do not protect individual rights and freedoms and generally restrict people from doing g what they want without harming others. So examples would be criminalising prostitution, blasphemy laws, prohibitions on selling/buying items that are morally contentious but do not pose a general threat to the public such as alcohol, contraceptives and, pork products to name a few. Criminalising homosexuality. Criminalising interracial marriage. And so on. Basically making laws on purely moral grounds not for the protection of rights (no, protecting someone's soul doesn't count, that's called paternalism), or on other policy grounds.