The Slow Extrication of Christianity in America

John R. Houk

© October 10, 2010

You know I am a huge fan of protecting America’s right to Free Speech even to the point of allowing ideology that I believe (and probably most Americans) is an ideology of corruption. Saying that here is a question that the Supreme Court has interpreted to affirm the answer: Is pornography a Free Speech issue or an affront to human decency issue that should be criminalized?

The Supreme Court has ruled pornography in the Free Speech realm is free expression covered under First Amendment Free Speech (Notably: Jacobellis v. Ohio & Stanley v. Georgia). Any nominal through devout Christian should have been angered for opening this can of worms that as late as the early 20^th century would have the porn perpetrators and porn participants thrown in the slammer. I am guessing even a significant amount of moral relativists would have and should have not been pleased with the Supreme Court decision to transform many centuries worth of Western/Christian culture into legalized protected exploitation of women for the sake of the prurient interest of males (and in the present of females as well).

I think I might have an understanding to the reason SCOTUS legalized pornography to become legal precedent according to the First Amendment. If SCOTUS had ruled against pornography in the fast pace changing 20^th century a worse can of worms may have opened. The horns of a dilemma may

have been a choice of the lesser of two evils in which a ruling indeed was necessary for the times.

If SCOTUS ruled in favor of many centuries of Western/Christian culture in which pornography did not suit the common good then another question would arise in which the worms of the can might lead to forms of despotism and interpreting Culture rather than the Constitution. That question is: Who decides the Western or Christian measuring tool of what the common good is?

I am sure some may disagree that the proverbial can of worms of the common good is the lesser of two evils. And yet consider this: the SCOTUS ruling of applying Free Speech to pornography also strengthened the equality of Free Speech for the Left/Right political spectrum. The fringes of that scale such as Communist bloody transformative revolution on the Left to extremist Capitalism in which the consumer is the victim of caveat emptor or worse the victim of bloody despotism of Fascist Corporatism in which an oligarchy or an individual leader of the State utilizes corporations to finance the whims of the Right. This strengthening of Free Speech allows Leftist idiocy (yep I’m on the Right) to be framed in public as much as the good sense of the Right. More importantly a Christian such as I also do have the freedom to frame their thoughts in public without the worry of Leftist/Secular Humanist legal or illegal persecution.

As a side bar: The one unfortunate result of SCOTUS ruling that pornography is a Free Speech right is the degradation of America’s culture harming the common good by further allowing deficient social mores snagging darkly into acceptance. Thus the porn right has led Psychiatrists and Doctors to withdraw homosexuality as a deviancy. Ever since the porn has the right SCOTUS ruling, more fuel has been given to the Left to minimize America’s Christian influence in or society. More and more the aegis of Free Speech coupled with the SCOTUS misinterpretation the First Amendment phrase not allowing the U.S. Government to Establish a State Church (meaning the unconstitutional phrase: Separation of Church and State) has given America’s Left a weapon to attack Christianity. Note I am not saying religion. I am saying Christianity.

America’s Left will support the ungodly and oft times unconstitutional theopolitical ideology of a religion to practice their faith even if the goal of that religion is to eradicate the very Constitution that allows Religious Freedom. That religion which the Left hooks up with to undermine Christian morality is the supremacist concepts of Islam. End of Side bar.

 

A classic example of weakening America’s perception of Christian influence in our culture is the recent story of middle aged female trucker (If Yahoo archives this story, go to SlantRight.com to read it) going into an art display in Colorado and take a crowbar to a 12-panel lithograph which included but was not limited to the portrayal of a dress wearing Jesus Christ having an orgasm from a male performing oral sex. The artist was Mexican born Stanford Professor Enrique Chagoya. The vandal was Kathleen Folden.

 

The writer of the story did his part to minimize Christianity. In parentheses following the description of Folden’s defending Christianity are these words:

Somehow the prophet-and-pigs panel seems to have gone overlooked, but that's Colorado for you.

The article is a valiant effort of a MSM writer toward neutral journalism; nonetheless the writer’s thoughts on why the offense to Islam was not bashed in the same act of vandalism is the underlying bombarding of America’s culture with the subliminal persuasion that Christianity is the archaic practice of those who own guns and Bibles. 

JRH 10/9/10 (Hat Tip: DJ)