Never apologize for being right. Just remember Ecclesiastes 10:2 "A wise man's heart inclines him to the right, but the heart of a fool to the left"   Speaks volumes today, doesn't it? 

"If you don't read a newspaper, you are uninformed. If you do read a newspaper, you are mis-informed."-Mark Twain

TruthMonger: You are correct. Our Senior Pastor has often told the true story of a man that kept a rattlesnake in a cage in his house. Every now and then he would take out that snake and fancy himself as a snake charmer. He would then kiss that snake on the head.

You guessed it. One day that snake bit him right in the face and it almost killed him; it did disfigure his face due to nerve damage which the doctors were only able to partially repair.

But, I'm sure you didn't guess this: Every now and then, he still does it.

Tell you anything?

 "Sexually explicit pictures, writing, or other material whose primary purpose is to cause sexual arousal. "  dictionary

Does it fit?

C'mon Sarc, it's easy to define "porn". We all know what porn is. And we all know that a chick in a bikini or T-shirt with mid section showing isn't "porn". Even public nudity isn't porn, people having sex in the "public eye" is porn, pretty easy to spot. Photographing young childeren naked for the purpose of adult sexual gratification is beyond porn and just sick!

"There are two types of people in this country; those who provide freedom and those who enjoy it." MM says...

So, nudity is bad, or just porn nudity?

What if they start to compare you to the women in Vogue, Glamour, etc.?

"Going to the strip club, looking at porn magazines, anything having to with nudity can ruin relationships and marriages."

So can playing football with the fellas on the weekends, or eating too many McDonald's Big Mac combo meals.

I knew this thread bring out the thumpers.  Good grief.  Seperated form your hubby of 21 years under the 'authority' of Church elders?! 

...and out comes the independant side of me.  For better or for worse.  I don't lie

The American Revolution Continued

You have all the respect in the world for Christianity? Doesn't sound that way to me...

God's law is about raising the bar to a high standard. Why? It's not about taking the fun out of life, dude. It's about protecting us from ourselves until we know better - which for you is probably a long way off yet...

It's not exactly fun for me you know to try and raise the bar for the benefit of my community (which includes you) only to have someone like you cheap shot people like me with the usual BS such as "intolerant, hateful, judgemental, etc, etc."

The constitution says I have a right to my say and my vote just like you do bud and I will use it. 

You may not be cutting heads off people. But your actions do affect the rest of us dramatically. It ripples through the entire community. And what you are promoting with this pornography lowers the bar. When you lower the bar for a group you also lower the performance...

The porn industry is increasingly devastating our communities. So I intend to fight against it. That's my right. You can promote it. That's your right. Welcome to democracy. May the best agenda win:)

 Where does it state that our Constitution be a carbon copy of the Bible? 

 Obviously you haven't read John Locke, whose writings influenced the founding fathers otherwise you wouldn't need to ask that question.  You will notice that there is an implicit assumption of God. This is something that is not taught in the public schools. http://www.constitution.org/jl/2ndtreat.htm 

specifically: http://www.constitution.org/jl/2ndtr01.htm

Sec. 1. It having been shewn in the foregoing discourse,

1. That Adam had not, either by natural right of fatherhood, or by positive donation from God, any such authority over his children, or dominion over the world, as is pretended:

2. That if he had, his heirs, yet, had no right to it:

3. That if his heirs had, there being no law of nature nor positive law of God that determines which is the right heir in all cases that may arise, the right of succession, and consequently of bearing rule, could not have been certainly determined:

4. That if even that had been determined, yet the knowledge of which is the eldest line of Adam's posterity, being so long since utterly lost, that in the races of mankind and families of the world, there remains not to one above another, the least pretence to be the eldest house, and to have the right of inheritance:

All these premises having, as I think, been clearly made out, it is impossible that the rulers now on earth should make any benefit, or derive any the least shadow of authority from that, which is held to be the fountain of all power, Adam's private dominion and paternal jurisdiction; so that he that will not give just occasion to think that all government in the world is the product only of force and violence, and that men live together by no other rules but that of beasts, where the strongest carries it, and so lay a foundation for perpetual disorder and mischief, tumult, sedition and rebellion, (things that the followers of that hypothesis so loudly cry out against) must of necessity find out another rise of government, another original of political power, and another way of designing and knowing the persons that have it, than what Sir Robert Filmer hath taught us.

Sec. 2. To this purpose, I think it may not be amiss, to set down what I take to be political power; that the power of a MAGISTRATE over a subject may be distinguished from that of a FATHER over his children, a MASTER over his servant, a HUSBAND over his wife, and a LORD over his slave. All which distinct powers happening sometimes together in the same man, if he be considered under these different relations, it may help us to distinguish these powers one from wealth, a father of a family, and a captain of a galley.

Sec. 3. POLITICAL POWER, then, I take to be a RIGHT of making laws with penalties of death, and consequently all less penalties, for the regulating and preserving of property, and of employing the force of the community, in the execution of such laws, and in the defence of the common-wealth from foreign injury; and all this only for the public good. 

http://www.constitution.org/jl/2ndtr07.htm

Sec. 89. Where-ever therefore any number of men are so united into one society, as to quit every one his executive power of the law of nature, and to resign it to the public, there and there only is a political, or civil society. And this is done, where-ever any number of men, in the state of nature, enter into society to make one people, one body politic, under one supreme government; or else when any one joins himself to, and incorporates with any government already made: for hereby he authorizes the society, or which is all one, the legislative thereof, to make laws for him, as the public good of the society shall require; to the execution whereof, his own assistance (as to his own decrees) is due. And this puts men out of a state of nature into that of a common-wealth, by setting up a judge on earth, with authority to determine all the controversies, and redress the injuries that may happen to any member of the commonwealth; which judge is the legislative, or magistrates appointed by it. And where-ever there are any number of men, however associated, that have no such decisive power to appeal to, there they are still in the state of nature.

Sec. 90. Hence it is evident, that absolute monarchy, which by some men is counted the only government in the world, is indeed inconsistent with civil society, and so can be no form of civil-government at all: for the end of civil society, being to avoid, and remedy those inconveniencies of the state of nature, which necessarily follow from every man's being judge in his own case, by setting up a known authority, to which every one of that society may appeal upon any injury received, or controversy that may arise, and which every one of the* society ought to obey; where-ever any persons are, who have not such an authority to appeal to, for the decision of any difference between them, there those persons are still in the state of nature; and so is every absolute prince, in respect of those who are under his dominion.

(* The public power of all society is above every soul contained in the same society; and the principal use of that power is, to give laws unto all that are under it, which laws in such cases we must obey, unless there be reason shewed which may necessarily inforce, that the law of reason, or of God, doth enjoin the contrary, Hook. Eccl. Pol. l. i. sect. 16.)

If you doubt John Locke had influence on the founding fathers I suggest you read this as this is the foundation for the Declaration of Independence.  This is where the founding fathers derived their ideas: http://www.constitution.org/jl/2ndtr08.htm

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. Marcus Aurelius