Pornography is a cancer on society. Livius has the appropriate analogy. If we as a society spend money on tobacco and illegal drug use, it is perfectly good sense to spend money in some measure to stigmatize porn users and prevent its easy access. Perhaps targetting sellers would be another way.
This garbage breaks up families and dehumanizes men and women. Involvement with children is an unspeakable crime.
In a world where homos now have special govt protection in many instances, I can understand a fear the federal government getting involved in another values campaign. But all laws come from someone's values. Why not make laws from values that have been known to nourish life and true love, the kind that sacrifices for another.
If you think that's the "proper" analogy, then you're engaged in the same exercise in rationalization he is - that one abuse of the government justifies another. If you want your state government to engage in this kind of propaganda campaign, that's within their pervue. If you want it regulated the way the Archbishop does "like toxic waste" - by federal bureaucrats - then I'm not going to join you.
Three wrongs don't make a right. While the bishop's comments on porn and sexuality in America have some major elements of truth, the proposed cure is worse than the disease.
Nobody chooses to have cancer. People choose to view porn.