AND THAT'S IT.
Ah yes, a Christian libertarian who says "If God didn't SPECIFICALLY speak against it, then it shouldn't be dealt with by civil government." (I've dealt with more than my fair share of your kind). God didn't mention recreational drugs, light up the bong! God doesn't mention pornography, break out the Playboy magazines! Speaking of porno:
If my neighbor wants to look at dirty pictures (of consenting adults) in his basement, that's a Sin -- but if he's not violating anyone else's Person or Property, then that's between him and God.
The question is: should the civil magistrate enforce God's laws when it comes to pornography? The late great R.J. Rushdoony thought so: "the link between pornography and revolutionary totalitarianism is a necessary one. The rise of totalitarianism has always been preceded by moral anarchism... the politics of pornography is a moral anarchism whose purpose is revolution, a revolution against Christian civilization. . . . Certainly new and clearer legislation [against pornography] is *necessary and urgently needed*. . . we need and must have sound legislation" (_Law and Liberty_, pp. 18-20.
Let's look at the "harmless" sin of pornography shall we?
I found these statistics while blogging in a Seattle Times blog regarding a Kent couple that webcammed their 4 year old daughter while raping her.
Every second - $3,075.64 is being spent on pornography
Every second - 28,258 Internet users are viewing pornography
Every second - 372 Internet users are typing adult search terms into search engines
Every 39 minutes: a new pornographic video is being created in the United States
(2006 statistics, it's probably more now).
Link to pornography statistics
Pornography promotes a hedonistic lifestyle that is often highly addictive, harmful to marriages and influences anti-social and sometimes criminal behavior. In the eyes of most women pornography is degrading and highly offensive.
30 years of data connects porn with child molestation 10/2/2009
Morality in Media (MIM) has posted a report online showing a relationship between adult pornography and child molestation.
The report covers various sources -- news articles, court cases, studies, books, and congressional testimony -- published from 1980 to present. Among their findings -- child molesters use adult porn to "groom" their victims; many perpetrators progress from viewing adult porn to viewing child porn; and children imitate with other children the behavior they view in adult porn.
MIM spokesman Bob Peters tells OneNewsNow he hopes to awaken people who are really earnest in their efforts to curb sexual exploitation of children, but who turn their backs on the adult pornography problem.
"...[I]t's kind of counter intuitive, but a lot of people who sexually molest children also look at adult pornography," he states. "They use it for their own arousal.
"They also often use it in the actual crimes," he continues. "And there have been social science studies, surveys of people who commit sexual crimes against children, and during the questioning they'll be asked about the role of pornography -- and many of them will say that they used adult pornography shortly before the crime."
Peters acknowledges that while adult porn is not the full explanation for the crime, it is certainly part of it. Polls over the past decade also show public support for Morality in Media's stance that pornography is harmful.
Link to porn and child molestation
Tell your...ahem..."neighbor" to just say NO! to pornography.
Tell them, I shall.
Trespass upon their Private Property to do it, I shall not.
Rushdoony's not bad. But Nymeyer's far better. You haven't read Nymeyer, have you? I thought not.
However, since you cite Rushdoony, I would remind you that the old Armenian Patriarch did favor outlawing Blasphemy, as well.
So, Don't dodge the question, FRiend:
Blasphemy. Definitely one of the biggies, Biblically.
Judaism, by denying that Christ is God, commits Blasphemy against God.
You going to outlaw Judaism next, pal?
Either stake your claim and take the logic of your argument to its full extent, or else admit you're wrong and go read some more Biblical Theonomy.
You obviously haven't read enough.
Answer the question.