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The Wackadoo Is Right: There Shouldn't Be Smut For Kids To Find

Here you go. Now don't hear what I'm not saying. I don't think Sally the Librarian deserves prison, even if she thinks these parents are a bunch of repressed Christianist Torquemadas. And I'm not saying necessarily that I want anything to do with actually enforcing this thing.

But.

I don't believe in pluralism for its own sake. I believe true freedom serves the true good. I believe that moral filth hurts everyone, and, if good parents can't stand up and say that Heather doesn't have two Mommies, she never did, and she never will, well, I don't really want to live in a place like that.

For those of you who think I just tied various "marginalized" communities to a stake, get over it. If you cry "Wolf!" long enough, people start ignoring you. At the end of the day, everyone will come to understand that the absolute limit of human political authority is the natural moral law, and that every human government that transgresses it in the exercise of its authority is null and void in that respect.

By the way, my liberal and progressive friends: You want to regulate huge corporations and their profits and payouts? Natural moral law. Environmental destruction? Ditto. War? You get the idea.

Sooner or later, the Christians were going to say, "You know what? Our nanny state is better than yours." And I don't blame them. Bork was right.
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