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To: cdwright
-- Even as you deftly dodged the issue.

Not at all. It is you who is avoiding the issue that your criteria condemns common innocuous pass-times as much as it condemns porn.

Look, you are much too smart for me. I'm a simple man with a simple mind. I shouldn't be playing in your pool.

You're entitled to your opinion. And it's not my pool.

Porn is sin. Plain and simple. I've seen my share of it. That should at least entitle me to an opinion.

You most certainly are entitled to consider porn to be sinful. It is your right to hold whatever opinion of it you wish. I support your right to do so.

But I do NOT support the use of coercive governmental power to restrict that which is harmless to the vast preponderance of people who enjoy it just because it is contrary to the sincere beliefs of a particular group of people, anymore that I would support the government restricting access to dime novels, playing cards, checker boards, rag-time music, or pool halls just because Prof. Harold Hill told the rubes in River City that those devices were devil's tools.

That said, no one has a right to force you to view porn if you don't like it, and your tax dollars shouldn't be used to support it.

140 posted on 11/20/2001 1:20:57 PM PST by longshadow
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