Pornography

Now that I have your attention, let me say that this post really is about pornography—and incest. Public Discourse, “an online publication of the Witherspoon Institute that seeks to enhance the public understanding of the moral foundations of free societies,” has a deceitful article posted titled “Incest and Pornography: More Similar Than We Think.” The heading of the article reads: “Although we uphold the cultural taboo on incest, we accept something with precisely the same negative effect on integrity, marriage, and family: pornography.” The author is implying in the article that pornography should be viewed the same way as incest. And although he doesn’t come out and say it, he would like nothing better than for the federal government to “do something” about pornography. If you look at the list of related reading in the upper right corner of the article you will see the same thing.

There were two articles regarding pornography that were not listed. I wrote two articles last year  in response to them that I want to refer you to here and here.

For the record, I oppose both incest and pornography, but I also oppose the nanny state.

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9:45 am on September 15, 2014