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Pornography is Never Harmless - Let's Not Treat It Like It Is
Last week, four members of Congress sent a letter to Attorney General Barr calling on the Trump administration to follow through on a campaign promise to enforce obscenity laws to stop the spread of pornography.
The letter, sent by Jim Banks (R-Indiana), Mark Meadows (R-North Carolina), Vicky Hartzler (R-Missouri), and Brian Babin (R-Texas), points out that the explosion of pornography coincides with increases in human trafficking and violence toward women. It also makes the point that children are increasingly exposed to pornography on the internet.
Pornography takes sex, something designed by God for good, and distorts it by divorcing it from its purpose. Rather than an expression of intimacy between husband and wife, pornography treats sex as a commodity in which human beings become objects to be viewed and used for the sexual gratification of another.
Although many defenses of pornography emphasize “consenting adults,” the reality is that pornography is fed by and fuels human trafficking. Content on pornography websites frequently shows the rape and abuse of sex trafficking victims. When people are treated as objects rather than humans, violence follows, and there is no way around the fact that pornography monetizes sexual violence. Pornography commodifies women (and men) and this is not without consequences. Violence is mainstream in the pornography industry, and it isn’t just conservatives who are pointing this out. Feminist activists, and even porn producers have called attention to the increasingly violent behavior that is normalized through pornography.
Read the whole piece by MFC's Patience Griswold at The Family Beacon.
"Fairness for All" Is Unfair
I recently gave a presentation on transgenderism to a group of suburban Minnesotans. After my talk, an operating room nurse who had been paying close attention raised her hand. Every week, she said, she is responsible for prepping two or more young women who claim a male “gender identity” for double mastectomies. At least once, her patient was a minor girl.
Hiding behind the label of “gender identity” is a public health epidemic that’s disproportionately affecting girls, same-sex attracted young people, and kids with mental health struggles. But that reality doesn’t seem to matter to the authors or supporters of the “Fairness For All Act” (FFA), misnamed legislation introduced last week by Republican Congressman Chris Stewart. The FFA would amend the Civil Rights Act to include sexual orientation and “gender identity,” and claims to provide exemptions from these new LGBT rights provisions for religious individuals and institutions.
Supporters of the FFA include the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the Seventh-day Adventist Church, and the Council for Christian Colleges & Universities. They have been touting the bill as a “balanced approach that fosters greater fairness for all,” as “honoring God and loving our neighbor,” and as underscoring “that all persons are created in the image of God, implying dignity, value, and worth.” While it may be true that the FFA’s supporters want to find a compromise between the clashing interests of religious believers and those who identify as LGBT, their remarks reveal a dangerous naivete. The very legislation they tout as fair and balanced would—to name just one of the ways in which it is dangerous—further entrench the practice of surgically reshaping and sterilizing the bodies of vulnerable young people.
Read the whole piece by MFC's Emily Zinos at First Things.
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