Posted on 01/15/2025 5:09:50 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
WASHINGTON — Thanks to the internet and smartphones, children today have instant access to vast amounts of online pornography, much of it graphic, violent and degrading, Texas state attorneys told the Supreme Court on Wednesday.
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Of course they will, because they do. You can say what you wish but, from a legal point of view, the Bible is a book with words and sometimes pictures. That is how it would be treated under the laws that you want.
It will not work out for you.
Liberals are anarcho-communists, they take what is good and push it in the most stringent manner possible, to prove it cannot be kept and then they seek to eliminate it by showing it does not work.
The Founding Fathers made use of it as well in the goings of their business. They didn’t allow for free speech for only good things, but for free speech.
Pornography is not suicide. It’s gross, but it’s not suicide.
This is where your thinking comes to nothing.
The logic is simple:
Pornography destroys families.
Families are the building block for our country, and families have always been a primary target.
But communists and globalists are also mentally deficient.
A starting point is their inability to know what is good.
The attempt to equate the Bible with pornography can only originate in a deficient mind.
So do guns destroy families, but your Constitution allows for them. The destructive power of an activity does not affect the right to do an activity. The Constitution or law does not weigh the merits of activity, but treats them both equally.
A man who has raised 6 kids and each of them are doctors, lawyers, teachers, military officers, police officers, etc, is worth more morally than a man who sired 27 kids and doesn’t see them and is an unemployed bum who gambles and cavorts with prostitutes. However, under the law, they are both the same.
The law does not consider merit to be a factor in its determiniations.
Right, but that does not change how the law works.
I don’t equate the Bible and pornography as being equal, the law does. By the laws you right, for them to be valid, must treat them equally and blindly under the law.
No, you’re wrong. Guns don’t destroy families on a systemic level.
The topic of “merit” is not part of our discussion.
Do you think it’s lawful to yell fire in a crowded theater?
You can try your argument about the Bible being exempt from the limitations of free speech that you want to impose upon porn.
You would just lose, that’s all.
No, you’re wrong again.
The law does not equate the Bible with pornography.
The basis of law is language. The basis of language is truth.
The only way to subvert truth is through the misapplication of language, as you misapply it in equating the Bible with pornography.
When you do this, it’s the same kind of error as when you say a Y chromosome is an X chromosome.
You sound like the guy in the Monty Python skit.
Let’s stay focused on substance here.
The topic at hand is not the Bible. We’re discussing pornography.
Again, do you understand why it’s not lawful to yell fire in a crowded theater? I’ll be here for guidance.
No, I’m not wrong. The law applies to all and in equal measure.
Language is language. If the law you want covers certain actions, the Bible will be drawn in. I don’t know why you don’t understand this. The Supreme Court is not going to carve an exception for the Bible.
I can only say to you, I guess you will find out for yourself. Just don’t complain when you do find out for yourself.
Are you trying to avoid discussing how pornography is harmful?
Do you prefer to avoid discussing the scope of harm caused by pornography?
But why do you censor yourself from the discussion of pornography?
Is there something about pornography you think should be ignored?
Pornography should be banned because it causes severe damage on a societal level.
This is the kind of damage our country’s enemies deliberately inflict on us.
The distribution of pornography is categorically the same as yelling fire in a crowded theater.
The law only recognizes lawful free expression and unlawful free expression. It does not differentiate between different free expressions of same medium. A book is a book under the law. Any law passed in regards to books will include the Bible.
The Courts are not going to say the Bible is exempt, They are going to say that these words can or cannot be expressed and, if the Bible has those words it will not be able to express them.
You’re dreaming if you think that Christianity will not be caught up in your desires, if those desires come to pass.
Pornography should be banned because it causes severe damage on a societal level.
This is the kind of damage our country’s enemies deliberately inflict on us.
The distribution of pornography is categorically the same as yelling fire in a crowded theater.
I think all porn sites should have a nming convention that ends in .XXX.
That way, all parents could simply use the security features to disable access to those sites.
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