A response you pro-pornography types is to equate it with free speech and declare that any attempt to suppress it would lead to tyranny.
Gee, that's odd. Like I said earlier, I have no recollection of pre-"Deep Throat" America being any kind of a police state. Even before "I Am Curios - Yellow", we seemed to have plenty of rights and freedoms. So your equation of suppression of porn with political repression is ridiculous.
Obscenity laws that were freely created by democratic consent of the governed to protect their families and communities were struck down by ACLU lawyers backed up by Hollywood and activist judges. THAT is what got us to this pass.
Of course, when legal authority, constitutional doctrine, or just plain 'ole common, walkin' around sense fails it becomes mandatory to blame: the ACLU, judges, lawyers, liberals, godless heathens, Democrats, public schools, or any other person or institution that exhibits the slightest degree of the ability to engage in independent thought.
Making noise and stomping your feet in protest adds nothing to a discussion that calls for intellectual analysis. The problem with trying to argue with a fool is that you then have two fools arguing.
Obscenity laws that were freely created by democratic consent of the governed to protect their families and communities were struck down by ACLU lawyers backed up by Hollywood and activist judges. THAT is what got us to this pass.
AMEN!