[Springfield Reformer]

Marriage is already deeply entwined in the law, and should be, due to the inherent tendency of the arrangement to produce new taxpayers.

Sharia does often entail contract law, but the bare terms of a contract appear against a backdrop of what is called gap filler law, not directly in the contract but an influence on how the contract should be interpreted. It is that back door which could allow development of a body of law that is alien to our traditional legal principles.

As for pornography, it is an assumption too far to say that the protection sought for women and children is necessarily violative of the first amendment. Many women and children every year are drawn into lives no reasonable person would choose, coerced by drugs or poverty or threat of force to serve as sexual entertainment for debased persons. This often ties directly into criminal activity that is so profitable that local law enforcement fails in their duty to protect. This is the foul root from which much pornography stems, and it is not the proper subject of free speech protection, though the end product is considered so.

Bottom line, a pledge can be a good thing in such areas, if there is not an over-commitment to a specific legal strategy, unless that strategy, like DOMA, is a proven and constitutional strategy.

[blackdog]

But you see, my wife of 29 years really likes her porn.

It's why they placed the word personal in front of liberty.

If something is illegal, okeedokee.

[RonBush]

I agree with a lot of what is being said here, but I disagree about pornography. I guess it depends on what you call pornography, but at one time they called Playboy magazine pornography. I like looking at pictures of beautiful naked women in magazines like Playboy. I think it is my own business and not the business of government to stop me. If other people don’t like looking at Playboy, then don’t buy it, but don’t force values on me.

However, all child pornography should be illegal, and parents should have some way to control what their children see.

[newzjunkey]

The "growth industry" in pornography is self-produced material by amateurs, see news stories about "sexting." Women have shifted into producer roles and become studio owners.

Your talking points and concept of that industry are right out of the 1970s.

Human trafficking and sex worker exploitation are problems separate and distinct from the billion dollar pornography industry.