[CitizenUSA]

I don’t think the left really wants a society of “beasts” as you write. They think they are creating a better world by getting rid of all these ridiculous morals that limit human freedom. But the truth is we need a moral code, and the line must be drawn somewhere.

This isn’t a simple black/white situation that people on both sides of the issue seem to be writing. It doesn’t have to be a choice between going “Taliban” or being completely libertine.

I’m a Christian. It’s certainly wrong to be sexually immoral, but the immorality comes from within oneself. One could easily lust after someone who is fully clothed or look innocently at someone who is naked. It’s not what man sees that makes him immoral, it’s the thoughts that come out of his mind.

Personally, I wonder why it’s so difficult to accept a middle ground here. People should behave differently in public than they do at home. Common sense tells me one should lean toward the more conservative approach in public. Although that may upset or offend people who want to do their own thing, whatever that may be, the more libertine members should conform to protect the innocent.

For example: there’s no harm in covering explicit materials, like pornographic magazines. Those who want that material can still obtain it. On the other hand, potential harm can be done to children who are not yet ready to view such things.

Again, I don’t understand why this is such a difficult issue.

[trisham]

I don't understand it either, but it appears that there are some who refuse to tolerate any limits on their behaviour, public or private. This is an immature attitude, imho.

[little jeremiah]

It’s a difficult issue just the way “gay rights” are a difficult issue. They (all) claim they want tolerance, they demonize the side who want traditional morality to be the cultural default, and they push and push and push to have the norm become more and more degraded, all the while claiming victim status, and that anyone opposed to surrendering to their agenda is Taliban-like.

They do not want to be tolerated, NOR do they want to tolerate us. They want total domination of the culture. THAT’S why it’s an issue.

I am not saying that every poster here, for instance, has that extreme view. But the movers and shakers have that mindset, in spades.