CC, you mentioned people looking at dirty pictures in their own house.
Problem is, dirty pictures (of kinds I cannot even imagine) are in the bookstores, in schools masquerading as sex ed, in the airways and in the ethers aka internet. All over the place. Not privately in peoples’ private homes.
The truth is that the Constitutional protection of freedom of speech was not meant to provide protection for sexually explicit materials, whether described as obscenity or pornogrophay; whether photos, movies, words, live sex shows etc.
ONLY because pornographers teamed up with the ACLU and convinced a bunch of idiot leftists on the SCOTUS (who also found that the Constitution due to some penumbra of “privacy” allows the killing of the unborn) is pornogrophy legal. And an entire generation or two is now degraded (I don’t mean every member of society, I’m speaking generally).
Right now our culture is like a gigantic garbage dump. And porn supporters - and you yourself - are saying if people keep their garbage in their own yard, no one has any right to complain.
Problem is, the garbage is not only in other peoples’ yards, and the resultant stink, flies, rats, filth and disease is everywhere, but the freaking garbage is having parades downtown, on TV, in music on the airways, in all media, and being delivered to everyones’ house via the internet.
I don’t call that keeping it private, it’s on the freaking verge of being mandatory.
It’s at the point where parents who want to raise their children to value virtue and traditional (aka “real”) morality not only have to home school them, but practically cannot even take them to the grocery store or allow them to associate with any kids who aren’t also similarly protected.
Why more people do not see this on FR is shameful in itself. It is a sypmtom of how diseased our culture is.
In other words, you and I agree on what the problem is:
The fact that local communities have largely lost the right to police obscenity from the Public Commons.
Well, I've been saying all along that I agree with the local community's right to police obscenity from the Public Commons. In fact, I'll happily vote in support of such laws.
But I'm not going to vote in favor of Trespass upon my neighbor's property -- because THAT is ALSO against Biblical Morality (and against God's Laws of Private Property)!