Posted on 07/14/2004 7:46:19 AM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
see 467
See #467. The response is, "move the goalposts".
Absolutely correct. 100%.
Now, please provide for us the specific laws and statues that are being broken by those making porn films, mags, etc... and those purchasing the product.
I disagree with this 100%. The legality or illegality of something does not make it moral or immoral.
Whether or not you are going to heaven is not the state's business.
If you commit a crime, should you be released because you repent?
That's none of the state's business.
Prostitution is a crime just like murder is a crime.
'Course, such silly distinctions between "adult book store" and "stores which sell or rent adult videos" is completely lost on you.
Even the Meese Commission admitted that there was not a strong correlation between the act of viewing pornograpy and the act of committing rape or other violent crime.
Like I said, the only hope for you porn-addicted leftist radicals is to vote Ashcroft and the "Christian Taliban" out of the White House and get another deviant lesbian like Janet Reno in charge.
It works both ways . You and your team want to be mortal Gods . And since you mentioned it I'll be voting for freedom TJ not you and your team .
I did, now see post 479
If video stores that rent and sell hard-core films outnumber adult bookstores by 20 times, and if there are approximately 25,000 such adult bookstores, then simple mathematics says that there are roughly 1,250 adult bookstores. That's a far cry from the 15,000 claimed in your article. Oh, and less than 10% of the number of McDonalds in the country, not the 300+% claimed by your article.
But hey, what's one order of magnitude when you have an agenda to peddle?
You're the liar. The article says more than 15,000 "adult" bookstores and video stores offer pornographic material.
The fact remains. There are more pornographic book and video stores than there are McDonalds'
Coupled with your need to rely on sources so full of lies Clinton would blush shows your argument to be wholly without merit.
"Well, this whole line of argument started with the hypothetical of all porn being illegal (post #46). I contend that as more porn becomes legal, more porn producers are switching to kiddie porn.
I've never heard or read so much about people being arrested for making or possessing kiddie porn as I have in the last 5-10 years. I cannot believe that the number of producers and distributors have remained constant. If they have, they're working overtime."
As is analogous to the tobacco settlement, because the putting of those costs upon the industry by regulatory means puts the government into the porn business, there is no reason not then for government not to extend its market penetration (sorry), nor do I anticipate the industry eagerly lining up to take full accountability for its role in motivating often criminal behavior. Hence the right of the public to resort to police power and criminalize the sale and distribution of the product until they get their act together.
26,250 is indeed more than 15,000.
Ted Bundy was asexual and when caught had pictures of cheerleaders with him. He was leading Dobson around by his nose.
Nope. I know W has to kiss up to the Christian Right during election year. Then, once you've voted for him, he can go back to ignoring you.
I know that it is bad form to laugh but now you might have TJ thinking .. God knows what he is up to now !
"I'm sorry, but it is my enemies who want to make this a religious issue, not me."
Then what basis would you use to make current legal porn illegal? What are you basing your "morality" argument on, if not based in religion?
"Whether or not you are going to heaven is not the state's business."
But you would like it to be. The position I have seen you take is that you would like to make morality mandatory and enforced by the guns of the government. If I am not correctly understanding your position, then feel free to clear up my misunderstimation!
"If you commit a crime, should you be released because you repent?"
It is not a crime to view porn today, so what is your point?
"Prostitution is a crime just like murder is a crime."
Legally, prostitution is illegal, but viewing porn is not. Are you trying to equate the two? If you are, you are really supporting the legalization of prostitution as you just stated that you don't think it is any of the state's business if a person gets to heaven (or lives morally by religious standards).
I also accept the fact that you refuse to answer my question.
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