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To: bornacatholic
How does a defender/practicioner of pornography, one who has given themselves permission to violate one of the tenents of Universal Morality, avoid the charge of hypocrisy when they try and castigate, say, homosexuals, for their actions?

Should everything immoral be prohibitted?

God gave people free will. His desire was that people, even when given the opportunity to lead immoral lives, would nonetheless lead moral ones. I see no indication that God intended for people to be confined to the straight and narrow path. All indications I've seen indicate that he wants people to follow that path voluntarily.

Further, any societal benefit that could be gained from enforcing prohibitions against private sodomy or private viewing of pornographic materials could be obtained much more cheaply, and with less expansion of government power, by attacking some of the root causes of familial decay including, but not limited to, anti-male bias in divorce and family courts, an evil welfare system, and the erosion of traditional male/female roles.

IMHO, those who would expand government power to attack pornography are either more interested in expanding government power than in ending societal decay, or else they are the unwitting dupes of others who are.

131 posted on 06/11/2006 5:56:15 PM PDT by supercat (Sony delenda est.)
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To: supercat

"IMHO, those who would expand government power to attack pornography are either more interested in expanding government power than in ending societal decay, or else they are the unwitting dupes of others who are."

Expand government power? Fer corn's sake, porn was legalized during my adult life. Admitting and reversing that mistake is hardly a headlong rush to tyranny.


135 posted on 06/11/2006 11:32:49 PM PDT by dsc
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To: supercat
I see no indication that God intended for people to be confined to the straight and narrow path.

Matthew 13...*Enter ye in at the narrow gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way that leadeth to destruction, and many there are who go in thereat. How narrow is the gate, and strait is the way that leadeth to life: and few there are that find it

Galataians 5...Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are fornication, uncleanness, immodesty, luxury, Idolatry, witchcrafts, enmities, contentions, emulations, wraths, quarrels, dissensions, sects, Envies, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like. Of the which I foretell you, as I have foretold to you, that they who do such things shall not obtain the kingdom of God

137 posted on 06/12/2006 10:20:51 AM PDT by bornacatholic (Pope Paul VI. "Use of the old Ordo Missae is in no way left to the choice of priests or people.")
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