The Patriotic spirit of a nation is built on the idea of a man willing to die for his wife, children, and neighbors. If a man has no wife and children, and does not invite his neighbors for barbeques, and spends hours daily staring at internet porn, does he really care about the future of his country?
Internet porn may become the Kryptonite that brought down the greatest nation in human history. It is a tragedy similar to that of Samson of the Bible, who was destroyed by his inability to control his own sex drive.
You could make a strong case.
As in “I am enjoying something that violates all traditional moral conventions. I do not appear to be hurting anyone. So why are gays who want to get married any different?”
Once you start warping your logic to self-justify there is no end.
I’d also add that indifference to casual co-habitation between men and women has contributed greatly to support for all sexual perversion. Us conservatives are just as culpable for this as well.
Because only white people watch porn?
Maybe I’m missing the point?
I think one of the biggest contributors to the “acceptance” of sodomitic unions is
a) “Tolerance” of open homosexuals by society
b) The total capitulation of the moral highground and Judaeo-Christian values by the mainstream Christian Churches - Episcopalian, Methodist and Presbyterian as the biggest offerenders.
Porn is NOT prostitution. Are you pulling this stuff out of a hat or what?
Has it helped my view of gay marriage?
Not the porn I watch! /S
If you’re looking for the social pathology that paved the way for same sex “marriage”, it’s contraception.
Contraception severed the unitive and procreative elements of the sexual act. Once sex was reduced merely to pleasure, and childbearing to an option for those who like that sort of thing, its privatization was complete: with no third person involved, sex/marriage lost their social dimension and became merely the exercise of personal sentiment.
Every heterosexual couple that has practiced contraception at any point over the past 50 years or so bears a share of responsibility for the destruction of our civilization, the normalization of appalling perversions, and the criminalization of those who object.
A distant acquaintance of mine who frequents porn sites told me something I thought interesting. He said that in the last couple of years, long time sites have started including more and more gay and transvestite porn. These were sites that never had any for about a decade. No, I’m not going to check so I’ll take his word for this one.
of the men who view pornographic material “every day or almost every day,” 54 percent “strongly agreed” that gay and lesbian marriage should be legal, compared with around 13 percent of those whose porn-use patterns were either monthly or less often than that. Statistical tests confirmed that porn use is a (very) significant predictor of men’s support for same-sex marriage, even after controlling for other obvious factors that might influence one’s perspective, such as political affiliation, religiosity, marital status, age, education, and sexual orientation.The study was released just before Christmas and got almost no publicity.
The Communications Decency Act's anti-porn provisions might have been the last chance to keep this in check. There are still anti-obscenity laws on the books that might hurt some smut peddlers, but Bush pulled FBI agents off of prosecutions after 9/11 and Obama isn't enforcing them either.