Let the market determine what is and is not appropriate?
So if the market determines that the age of consent laws should go out the door, you think they should? If the market determines that child pornography is okay, I guess it is, huh? At least, according to your bogus defintion of pornography.
The New Deal Commerce Clause doesn't recognize individual rights. Witness the Assault Weapons Ban.
agreed, keep the government out...yet if it's a sexually motivated crime, like rape it could be seen as probable cause
In order for true conservatism to work as it should, the citizens should be morally informed and ethical. Such citizens would know better than to allow porn to proliferate in open society where it acts as a poison.
The market is amoral, and will produce anything for sale, even snake oil concoctions, unless there are morality based constraints placed upon it.
There has been a lot of discussion about the relevancy of this post. I think it's very relevant. You guys want to critisize the "moral right"...but who do you think got George Bush re-elected? And didn't George Bush agree to a Pornography Protected Day?
The point is pornography is very, very addictive. And most of the porno out there isn't your cute, bunnyrabbit Playboy stuff. Some of it is cruel, disturbing and outright dangerous.
Well, don't have to worry about a ban because it's basically hopeless on the internet. You'd have to cut the US off the internet internationally which is a non-starter.
Ping to myself ...
Remember to check the article out in a few hours after I'm done downloading porn...
"Banning pornographic material? Goodbye freedom of speech!"
The Framers of the constitution were interested in protecting political speech not purile entertainment.
I don't think "entertainment" should enjoy 1rst Ammendment protection. That isn't what the intent was.
Because Christians understand that the marketplace is not where the moral tone of a nation should be set. Christians understand that righteousness exalts a nation and evil degrades it. The prophets understood that just because priestesses were giving away sex in the temple of Asherah and Israelites were chosing to patronize it doesn't make it good or right.
It would be impossible to show a correlation between pornograpy and crime unless you inspect houses of criminals and non-criminals alike.
Besides, what part of this article wouldn't apply to liberalism just as well. Liberal trash is burned in the brain forever, and in some people leads to violent crime.