Um, no Tailgunner, you are missing an extremely important element of the argument:
Pornography is an ENTIRELY subjective, opinion-based classification. What constitutes Porn to one person is simply a normal sexual act/experience to another. Your definition of what is "acceptable" sexual behavior is limited by your own religious/social beliefs, and your standards may be different than mine. I can respect your views and not agree or accept them. This gives you no right to send agents of the law into MY homes, or to MY community's local stores to enforce YOUR personal sexual beliefs.
I may be a Republican because I support strong national defense, tax cuts and lower tax rates, the 2nd Amendment (absolute) right to bear arms, and the protection of human life from the womb forward, but "moral standard legislation" when it comes to so-called pornography is one of the few (very few) issues in which your common liberal exhibits more sense than (your type of) conservative.
Let's get this straight. The U.S. Constitution is not a document which justifies intrusion into the private lives and bedrooms of adult U.S. citizens by their government. Rather, the Bill of Rights is meant to limit such repressive tactics from authority figures, even those of the so-called conservative Fallwell/FCC persuasions.
Why do so many people who claim to want the federal government's nose out of their business and their family's life continue to impose their moral standards on the rest of us through just those means? Why do people like you, otherwise great lovers of freedom and skeptics of federal oppression continue to give the government a pass into our homes and our lives because you disapprove of our behavior?
Government intrusion is just that, Tailgunner, whether it's for our guns, our beliefs, or our personal effects and property (which includes porn and drugs as well as it does property, jewelry, electronics, money, etc). If that's how you interpret the Constitution than you can keep it. You're no different from those left-wing "living document" tyrants who impose their will America's citizens on abortion, gays, etc.
Very well said, good post.
Well put, Rock.
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You don't believe that society should be allowed to reasonably regulate the behavior protected by the Bill of Rights? That speech is all speech? That the press is free to print whatever they want? That "the right to keep and bear arms" includes nuclear weapons? And so on?
Well then, I submit you're no different from the average anarchist who wants no government interference in their lives.