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I like porn. I have NEVER, nor would I EVER, become a sexual predator. Period.

Are you married? If so, what does your wife have to say about your "hobby"?

Hobby? Not exactly a hobby. Why? ARen't you getting any? Want to live vicariously through me? Or are you just trying to drum up a good head of rigtheous indignation?

Some wives like porn too, believe it or not.

Are you married? If so, what does your wife have to say about your "hobby"?

Probably about the same as football Sunday or a golfing vacation.
Are you saying that if women don't like it, that men must give it up and ban it?

This topic is one of the more disconcerting subjects that appears on FR from time to time. Christian conservatives largely hang with the Republican movement because of moral and pro-family issues. Libertarian conservatives operate on the principle that all victimless crimes should be abolished, in which they include prostitution, gambling, drugs, and indecency. No Christian would agree that these crimes are victimless, moral, or pro-family.

Ancient Christians were commanded to "Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme; Or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well." (1 Peter 2:13-14)

Thus we live in a world that largely rejects God's morality and supplants it with its own. We put up with it and work however we can to influence the outcome of the legislative process, but we are outnumbered. We make "friends of the Mammon of unrighteousness" inasmuch as it furthers our opportunities to build the kingdom of God. Yet we understand that that kingdom will not be built from the political machinations of earthly governments.

It is a sorrowful thing, however; to behold an otherwise intelligent and honorable person besmirch his own character by their admission that they like porn and vainly try to defend the indefensible.

Despite the fact that none of us is perfect and all of us have human weaknesses, that is no excuse for us to forsake high ideals. The apostle Paul encouraged:

"Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things."

Even if one doesn't believe in a Supreme Being, that's a good standard on which to base one's actions. Pornography falls far short of the mark.