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From: rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Pesmard Flurrmn)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Pornography
Message-ID: <396@pyuxd.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 24-Jan-85 15:01:08 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan 24 15:01:08 1985
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>>    According to one recent posting on the net:
>>	  "Married sexual activity is sacred and its use outside of
>>	  marriage is a profanation of a holy thing."
>>    That's fine for you, but freedom of religion is constitutionally
>>    protected, so arguments based on church doctrine are disallowed.
>>
>>Jon Mauney,    mcnc!ncsu!mauney

> 	Interesting.  Does this mean to say that one does not have to
> look at whether it was right or not, or true or not?  "If it's religiously
> oriented, we don't have to listen to it." is just as biased as "If it's
> religiously oriented, we MUST listen to it.".  As if driving off the
> left side of the road is a greater virtue than driving off the right
> side...  [GERALD OWENS]

The point was that just because something is decreed to be wrong by a
certain religion is NO reason for it to be considered as public policy.
Something a good many people need to learn.
-- 
When you're omniscient, everything's a tautology.      Rich Rosen    pyuxd!rlr