[trisham]

Classical paintings of the Blessed Virgin Mary nursing her Son were painted to depict her motherhood and devotion, Playboys images are designed to sexualize her (and realize that Catholicism teaches that the Virgin Mary REMAINED a virgin and was therefore nonsexual). There is a huge difference.

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Exactly right. The goal of pornography has nothing to do with motherhood or love of God. What was the intent of the publishers of this unfortunate magazine? That is one question that I think we can all easily deduce.

[Joiseydude]

I see many purely religious posts here on FreeRepublic. Just about everyone respects them and no one posts in those threads critizing them.

Yet you post a news story about the current state of society and you get the very religious members complaining about the content of such threads.

It's a news story, and the story ain't gonna change no matter how much you might object to the directly related content of such stories.