folks don't like to talk about culture wars here in america acting as if it's just a media creation or something

but that's exactly whats going on.  the (no offense meant to the nice, forgiving, understanding, loving christians) christian warriors who have taken over this state over the last 15 years are desperate in their waning days to take as much victory as they can, to push the line as far as they can in their favor so that their replacements have lost ground.  a lot like football you know.

i saw on a documentary about cults where a psychologist warned that cult leaders control their followers sexuality, because there is no deeper device they can use to bring them into line.  i almost choked, because this is exactly what we do here in the us.  ok, so they have lost a whole lot in the realm of homosexuality (which is the true evil for them...after all no admonition against children in the bible, just same sex) but they still fight the good fight. 

it doesn't matter what you think the depiction is.  the soldiers see sex in it.  they see sex pretty much everywhere they look.  they would outlaw abortion (for the children) then the pill (can cause abortion (for the children)) then divorce (for the children of course)  and lets not forget how homosexuals taint our children with perversion and lead them down paths to their houses.

if they had their way our females in the us would be wearing their own versions of that arabic dress their females had to wear, very much media would be outlawed. 

if you want to play devil's advocate try this:

in some conservative arabic societies music, dress, fraternization, etc, can get you stoned to death.  we whine about their human rights here in the us.  but they have religious soldiers controlling their country.  their reasons for their actions are at least twofold.  one, they are actually saving the people around the person they stone to death, and possibly that person themselves.  they are saving their souls.  anything is preferable to losing your soul, right?  to a believer religious soldier, this is the ultimate matter, and everything else must come second. 
things that cause a person to feel sensual take the person's attention from contemplating god.  by eliminating distractions they save your soul.
the second reason of course is control.  an obediant populace is....well i'm not sure what advantages that has, other than i guess to retain power. 
our christian soldiers (again, no offense to the nicer ones) have the same motivation.

anyway the first amendment was about the marketplace of ideas, lassez-faire capitalism in ideas and language.  but the more rules you impose about what ideas can and can't be examined in the marketplace the less inovation the marketplace will have.  the marketplace will become poorer.

believe me, this guy and this case means nothing to any of us of course.  but our own creations will be judged next. 

lets not forget the attorney general from missouri under bush, and also the governer of utah that ran for president, Mitt Romney, spent a lot of time talking about outlawing all pornography.  all of it.  and they also would of course redefine it.  that missouri guy said that mtv was pornographic.  they are not alone.  this stuff still plays very very well with their constituents.  if Mitt Romney won the presidency, 3/4 of us here at renderosity would be up the creek.

so which side of the football field are you on?

go that way really fast.
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