Yet you havent poked any holes into the crux of my argument. How does criminalizing porn help society? Ive read your posts from the Baptistpillar (hardly objective on the issue) and what they THINK of the matter but i have yet to hear from YOU why you think pornography is such a danger to society.
Yes like murder, rape, child rape, theft, etc. All crimes that punish those that cause damage to society. A law should extablish a means to punish those that attack society. IT should not prevent those from committing those crimes at all. If a criminal wants to steal a car, he's not worrying about a law that says don't steal cars. So if the government enacts a law that says you can't stand near other people's cars to prevent auto theft, is that going to stop a criminal from STILL stealing a car? No but it will criminalize innocent people for standing near car's they had no intention of stealing.
Conservatives don't have an anything goes approach. They want tough penalties for those that committ crimes. They don't want penalties for those that we THINK are going to commit crimes. Then we get into a grey area where we criminalize people that were causing no harm but were perceived to have been wanting to. How do we now police people's intentions? Who are we God? No.
You obviously do have a problem with these things because most people don't care what someone does in the privacy of their own home. Its only a minority of individuals that has a problem with the way other people are living. The only things being "shoehorned" are the moral laws that restrict the majority's will by bending it in line with their moral code. Worry about your life. Live it according to your religion and you have nothing to worry about. God will take pity on you and send the rest of the poor slobs to hell when the time comes. In the meantime, don't tread on me.
Perhaps you don't read so good. Where have i defended the ACLU? Where have i stated that im a libertarian? Im an American. I think for myself. I fight for what I believe is right and true in this country. I don't take marching orders unlike some people in this world. Live your own life man. Don't follow a cause because people tell you too. Follow one because you believe its right. You telling people to live to your will is not going to make people morally higher. Its going to make them into criminals because they will live their own lives the way they always did. Its just that someone says their life is now not as good as someone elses and therefore it is criminal.
Yes porn is going to destroy democracy. Not authoritarian rule.
You say that the public is littered with porn. Where? I can drive down my street in Bristol (a lower to middle income neighborhood) and not notice a single display of public pornography anywhere. In fact, i can't recall in the last 12 years (my total awareness in my life that such a thing as porn even existed) where i saw a piece of pornographic material in public at all. I see strip clubs but i wouldnt know they were one if someone hadnt told me its there after driving past it 100 times. I notice adult book stores that look like boarded up shops that have gone out of business with discreet signs on the front. You wouldnt even know the place was in business unless you were a patron of the establishment. The point is that public pornography is pretty much non-existent except for an occasional drunken loon that goes streaking.
Porn in and of itself does not degrade the mind anymore than regular sexual urges do. You havent given me evidence that proves that any sexual predator used porn as a "gateway" drug to his/her behavior. Those people were already fucked up in the head and should be locked away from society so that society doesnt have to deal with them. But regular citizens going about their daily routines do not care on an average basis what people around them are doing so long as it doesnt interfere with their lives.
Thats the position of a solid Morally Superior, Religious Totalitarian.
Much more fun wouldn't you agree??
