I don’t want to get into a legal debate on First Amendment “rights.” I was just surprised to read this morning that U.S. Supreme Court Justice Roberts is more concerned than Scalia over alleged legal rights that include youngsters buying or renting video portrayals of violent crimes, including violent sexual crimes. Having just read in the local paper the horrific details of the home invasion murder of a 42 year-old mother and attempted murder of her daughter by four teenagers whose minds were fried on a habitual diet of satanism and media violence (so, too, were the Columbine High School killers) I am astonished that anyone, never mind a Catholic judge, would say this killer-porn is protected by the Constitutional right to free speech. But, then again, we are living under the culture of death, and our supreme court has legalized the killing of pre-born babies, while congress takes our tax dollars to pay the murderers.
Satan not only hates men in their spiritual capacity, he also hates the body. And, although sexual acts of the flesh in themselves are repulsive to the demons, they love to see men commit them outside of marriage. They especially love to see men degrade themselves by unnatural sexual acts. Some Catholics, and traditional ones I might add, find sins against the sixth commandment, flaunted graphically in the media as entertainment, more offensive than sadistic slasher movies. The ultimate end the demons have in mind is the death of the sinner. So, what better way to bring on a culture of death than to make men immune to sadistic violence. What better way to populate hell than to incite unjust wars and acts of terror, which send the victims without the life of grace to hell. What Catholics should be lobbying for is that God’s law be reflected in the nation’s laws. When it isn’t, then the so-called “rights” of blasphemers and pornographers become something even good citizens defend, as if it is part of patriotism. True “patriotism” is to love the patria that is subject to the Pater who is in heaven. True “liberty” is the freedom to do good, not evil. Choosing to do evil causes our will to restrict rather than to expand in freedom; it makes the will weaker, ultimately making it a slave to vice, even the vice of slavery to habitually watching graphic violence. And, to those who say that there is no “scientific” connection between pornography in both its forms and sadistic violence, you deceive yourselves, just as those do who maintain, in spite of the scientific evidence, that there is no connection between mothers who have had abortions and severe depression.
Zenit News: The U.S. Supreme Court recently heard arguments over whether or not to ban minors from buying or renting violent video games. According to press reports, the reaction from the justices was mixed, with the reactions not holding to the normal dividing lines between them on most legal questions. The case relates to a 2005 California law that outlaws selling excessively violent video games to minors. It was signed, as some ironically noted, by a former actor renowned for his violent films, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. After being struck down by lower courts the battle over the law has now reached the Supreme Court. Read more here.
