Canticle, other sources of authority don’t consider concerns about the distribution of pornography “ridiculous”...
Catechism of the Catholic Church 2354: “Pornography consists in removing real or simulated sexual acts from the intimacy of the partners, in order to display them deliberately to third parties. It offends against chastity because it perverts the conjugal act, the intimate giving of spouses to each other. It does grave injury to the dignity of its participants (actors, vendors, the public), since each one becomes an object of base pleasure and illicit profit for others. It immerses all who are involved in the illusion of a fantasy world. It is a grave offense. CIVIL AUTHORITIES SHOULD PREVENT THE PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION OF PORNOGRAPHIC MATERIALS.”
http://www.vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/archive/catechism/p3s2c2a6.htm
http://www.catholic.org/international/international_story.php?id=23645
Tell me why is someone who is a Mormon, is subject to the rules and regulations of the Roman Catholic Church. Isn’t there something about a seperation of the church from the State. There are plenty of examples of ways that the Church can be hypocritical. So that stone is already being thrown at a glass house.
Your supposed to give him the benefit of the doubt, then forgive the man as a Christian should. I honestly don’t think he even thought about the alcohol and pornography in the rooms. Why would he, he wasn’t interested in porn or booze. If he is then I don’t want to know about it.
Everyone has faults, even the earth spins on an angle.
However if he does know then maybe I won’t have to worry about an irritating federal government trying to take my Video Games or Anime away from me. Unlike with Hillary or Joe Lieberman.
My comment as to what is ridiculous is the idea Mitt Romney is a pornographer or benefiting from such. Mitt doesn’t own Marriott. If he did you might have a point, but he is one of several board members who don’t sit around and choose the movie offerings at their meetings. I’m 100% sure the subject never came up and if it did, why would his opinion be more valuable than anyone else’s?
Lose the preaching on Catholic doctrine. I don’t need it or want it. It’s garbage like this that gives Christian conservatives a bad name. There’s a little something called free will. People can choose to sin or not to sin and other people, especially the government, have a limited say in the matter unless it injures another person. America is a secular country based on a Judeo-Christian framework. It is not a theocracy but if you want one we’ll give it to you and I guarantee you won’t like it.
Would you prefer we break down people’s doors, monitor their lifestyles and jail them for anything contrary to your personal interpretation of religion? That mindset is shared by people of a different sort; the Taliban and communists like Hillary. It goes both ways.