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To: supercat

As I recall, all the pro-=pornography rulings by the SCOTUS were basically 5-4 decisions....I know I have been on the losing side for a long time...but, eventually, America will come to her senses


155 posted on 06/13/2006 3:45:54 PM 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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To: bornacatholic
As I recall, all the pro-=pornography rulings by the SCOTUS were basically 5-4 decisions....

What has that to do with anything? The court is sometimes right, and sometimes wrong. If nine-judges say something that's false, it's false. If five judges say something that's true, it's true.

Trying to codify all of morality into an legal code of earthly punishments is a bad idea for so many reasons it's hard to know where to begin. If the legality of something implies that it is morally acceptable, then it would follow that moral acceptability is a function of popular will, rather than any concept of right and wrong. I would hope you aren't meaning to imply that, but your apparent argument "Porn is immoral, ergo it should be illegal", seems to stem from a belief, "All that which is immoral should be illegal". Such a belief would imply as its desired condition, "All that is immoral is illegal", which in turn would imply "That which is not illegal is not immoral".

Also, I'd like to re-ask my question: under biblical law, what sins have earthly punishments, other than the four types I listed in #154?

156 posted on 06/13/2006 9:52:48 PM PDT by supercat (Sony delenda est.)
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