In article <4074c699$1@news.povray.org>, r.b### [at] sbcglobalnet says...
> I'm not responding to any one or any one particular point here.  It's
> already been covered that not everyone is the same religion.

I wasn't talking about religion in general. A lot of countries with what 
should have the same 'basic' religion have completely different views on 
this very subject. There was even a study published in Scientific 
American that stated that as a general rule, Americans collectively are 
actually more restrictive and obsessive about nudity and the like than 
the majority of Catholics. We ranked on the scale between strict 
moralistic views and relaxed ones under middle eastern countries. While 
the gap between the most extreme of them and the most extreme people in 
the US was fairly wide, there was also what I personally consider to be a 
very uncomfortable overlap, given the sort of insane stuff some groups in 
the middle east believe.

No telling how accurate the study is, but almost no one would argue that 
there hasn't been a general perceived trend towards moralizing in the 
last 10+ years here. It doesn't matter what source the proclamations of 
morality come from. Differences exist, even often travelling a few 
thousand miles to a different state, where just trying to by a sex toy 
can get both you and the person selling it thrown in jail, never mind the 
fact that only maybe 2 or 3 out of the 50 states have such laws. Religion 
just happens to be the most common excuse for this sort of nonsense.



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