Moral Absolutes Ping.
Sigh. This is one of those articles I REALLY don't want to ping out. Read after you're finished with one meal and not yet ready for the next. One comment on the thread opines that anyone who reads about this topic must have an unhealthy fixation with it.
That's called "hoping bad things will go away if I don't know about them". Never works, never has, never will.
Porn is a very, very bad thing. It used to not be covered by the first amendment, then Larry Flynt and the ACLU discovered that Yes! Freedom of speech meant every kind of raunchy, violent, nasty pornography was JUST what the founders of this country had in mind when the Bill of Rights was written!
Rampant sexual immorality will indeed destroy this country along with a lot of other stuff. Gross sexual immorality renders a human being less than an animal, engenders a hard heartedness and selfishness that hardly any other activity does, necessitates abortion and the view that pregnancy and resulting children are burdens, destroys family life, and creates a subclass of fatherless children and husbandless mothers and predator males. The fact that so many - even here on FR - scorn these truths is sad testimony to the breakdown of basic human morals.
Morals that have been given to mankind by God in every scripture in the world. For our own good. And the funny thing is that if we follow the rules (get married if you want sex and don't kill your children) we'll be much, much happier than if we break them. These rules aren't there to surpress our happiness, but to insure it.
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Excellent rant, l.j.
Great rant!
Mine was more nuts and bolts, but I think we're sorta on the same page ;)