You’re right. When you ask them if they favor obscenity laws prohibiting public nudity, masturbation and consensual sex acts in their neighborhoods they become outraged and claim this is different because their children should not be subject to seeing these acts involuntarily. It is their “right” not to be subjected to these acts in public.
But somehow it is not their “right” not to be subject to same on the public broadcast system or the internet. Your theory that the collective IQ has diminshed a couple of sigmas might explain that little conundrum.
Then they go on to complain that you and I want to prevent them from doing what they want in their homes and bedrooms throwing around the statist epithet. How ridiculous can the argument get? Nobody gives a crap what they do in the privacy of their own home. As far as I’m concerned they can glue their eyes to images of adults engaging in sex acts until the sun stops shining. LOL, I mean really, how moronic can they get?
Here’s another beauty of an argument. By regulating the internet to require XXX websites to require ID to enter the site you have trampled on political speech. That’s my personal favorite.
A little less retarded is their state powers argument. Yes public obscenity laws should be as local as possible but small towns, big cities or large states have no capability to regulate the broadcast spectrum or the internet. Common sense and common decency must take a back seat to the libertines these days. It’s all right there in the Constitution and the DOI, the inalienable right to subject others to your sexual dalliances. Good grief.