[HarleyLady27]

I don’t think any ‘politician’ or ‘government official’ has the right to be in the ‘citizen’s bedrooms’...

Cruz is a total hypocrite on this, his mistresses, his hooker, what you think they go there and have just sex and zip up and leave? From what I’ve been hearing, there’s chains, whips, men put on women’s panties, dress up for the ‘payee’ and all kinds of things...good heavens!!!

He isn’t qualified to be a Senator much less a Presidential Candidate, what Texas does after all the lies, and crap that have come out on this man is up to them, but we need to tell the people: ‘you don’t belong in our bedrooms’ and no, I’m single, 71 years old, and do not preform in such a manner, my Catholic Grandmother would come out of her grave and swat the heck out of me for such things...

[Beautiful_Gracious_Skies]

I presume the toys are necessary because he can’t the job done.

[mlizzy]

"my Catholic Grandmother would come out of her grave and swat the heck out of me for such things..."
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Your grandmother must have been paying attention to the Church's teachings, desiring to save your soul:

Church Catechism:

The Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC) condemns masturbation in Part 3: "Life in Christ;" Section 2: "The Ten Commandments;" Article 6: "The Sixth Commandment;" Topic: "Offenses against chastity."

• 2351: "Lust is disordered desire for or inordinate enjoyment of sexual pleasure. Sexual pleasure is morally disordered when sought for itself, isolated from its procreative and unitive purposes."
  
  
• 2352: "By masturbation is to be understood the deliberate stimulation of the genital organs in order to derive sexual pleasure. 'Both the Magisterium of the Church, in the course of a constant tradition, and the moral sense of the faithful have been in no doubt and have firmly maintained that masturbation is an intrinsically and gravely disordered action.' 'The deliberate use of the sexual faculty, for whatever reason, outside of marriage is essentially contrary to its purpose.' For here sexual pleasure is sought outside of 'the sexual relationship which is demanded by the moral order and in which the total meaning of mutual self-giving and human procreation in the context of true love is achieved'."
  
  "To form an equitable judgment about the subjects' moral responsibility and to guide pastoral action, one must take into account the affective immaturity, force of acquired habit, conditions of anxiety or other psychological or social factors that lessen, if not even reduce to a minimum, moral culpability." ₁

Is masturbation a mortal sin or a venial sin?

Being a "grave moral disorder" and "an intrinsically and gravely disordered action" the Church teaches that even a single act of masturbation can theoretically send a person to Hell for all eternity. However, the Church does supply a degree of wiggle room. In order to be a mortal sin, two additional factors must be present:

• The person must commit the act with full knowledge of the sin and of its seriousness.
  
  
• "It must be committed with deliberate and complete consent." ₂

http://www.religioustolerance.org/masturba10b.htm

[apoliticalone]

I agree. I want freedom, and less not more govt intrusion. I’m weary of political hacks telling us what we can do while they pocket bribes from the donor class.