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Senator Carper Calls for Tax on Online Porn
Better-living-thru-taxes writes "Senator Tom Carper (D-Del) is calling for a 25% tax on all internet pornograpy. The money is to help police fight online child pornographers. 'Carper says the bill will keep kids away from X-rated material.'"
They may be consenting adults, but the fact that they can consent to commit grosely immoral acts doesn't somehow make the acts okay.
You are an idiot. What does on-line porn and "two people who like each other a lot" have in common? Have you seen on-line porn? It sucks. Wham, bam, thank you mam, here is your $150. Porn is nothing like a loving relationship. And for you to say it is okay for a child to watch it, that makes you a pedophile. You belong in jail, or at the very least, to be registered with a sex offender database. You want children to watch porn, how sick are you??
The Christian faith (who's political wing is the Republican party)
That is B.S.. If you know anything, most catholics register as democrats. Maybe the baptists are more republican. But as a group, they don't vote for just one side or the other. Or are you talking about lutherans?
As young as twelve or thirteen I was viewing pornography because I was curious and felt a drive to seek out such material. Far from damaging my psyche, it made me a lot less nervous about my sexuality.
Maybe sex is something that should be nervous and new and wonderful when you meet the one person who you want to be with forever. Maybe sex is a choice a 14 year old can not make, because they don't have the maturity to understand what it means. Maybe if sex is something sacred, then the divorce rate and infidelity would not be so high.
You are what is wrong with this world.
You may not agree with abortion or gay marriage but believing in freedom is about having the maturity to realize that the people who are gay or have abortions are consenting adults and are fully aware of the consequences of their actions.
And the next thing we will see is beastiality becomming normal. Maybe one day HBO will air "Farm Diaries". After all, the person is free to make a choice, even if everyone else says it is wrong. That is what you are saying.
Rosco: "If brains were gunpowder, Enos couldn't blow his nose."
The Christian faith (who's political wing is the Republican party) for some reason believe that sex is bad and that pornography is somehow immoral. I don't know how they reached that conclusion, after all, one need only look as far as Job's daughters antics in the book of Genesis to see that the Bible is no authority on sexual morality.
One of the best ways to stop somebody stupid asking for something stupid is to let them have literally what they are asking for.
Want to tax smut? That'll be 25% extra added to every bible sold then.
Oh, good. Let's raise a few generations that can't defend themselves. Close down the Department of Defense and open the Department of Pansies. It will be really embarrassing when the U.S. is defeated by the armed might of Monaco.
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