What morality are they legislating? You can make rules that make certain things illegal. I don’t want to turn into a nation that stones people to death for being gay or watching porn, etc. America must not turn into a country like those that practice sharia. Morality must come from deep in one’s soul. It can be taught (especially by example from parents, teachers, etc.) but it can’t be forced.
Cindie
“Morality must come from deep in one’s soul. It can be taught (especially by example from parents, teachers, etc.) but it can’t be forced.”
As you rightly say morality is internal. However, this isn’t about attempting to make anyone moral. This is about putting limits on smut that mentally harms those that partake of it intentionally or by exposure. We are NOT regulating “morality” we are regulating behavior. Jesus Christ said that if a man has murderous thoughts he has already committed murder in the eyes of God. However, we don’t attempt to regulate thought, I cannot keep someone from having murderous (immoral) thoughts. However, I can make murder so heavily punishable by law that, to it is discouraging persons to resort to it. I’m NOT regulating morality by making murder illegal...I’m regulating behavior.
Also, none of us can live in a vacuum. Even if I were successful in shielding myself and family from all porn...I still have to live and interact each day by those soiled...sometimes dangerously so, by it. IF you degrade society you degrade my life. There is NO victimless crime...someone suffers. Don’t buy into Libertarian manure. Legal porn has an adverse effect on me and mine, legalized drugs have an adverse effect on me and mine...and on it goes. Libertarians and Liberals are both equally dangerous in my thinking....both would destroy/degrade my country.