People are using Virginia's porn age verification law to flag Bible.com for adult content.

As more and more states pass laws targeting “pornographic material” in books and online, they are repeatedly running up against a problem: The Bible has not just a few passages that could be considered indecent

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
    226·
    2 years ago

    The Davis School District initially removed the Bible from school libraries after a review determined it did include “vulgar” content. But the school board unanimously reversed its decision after a review by an appeal committee determined the text has " significant, serious value for minors which outweighs the violent or vulgar content it contains," the AP reported.

    There’s no hypocrisy here.

        • Dark Arc@social.packetloss.ggEnglish
          65·
          2 years ago

          It’s not a broad generalization at all. It’s a widespread pattern of hypocritical and contradictory conservative outrage, statements, and laws.

          • “I should be able to teach kids about the Bible in school, but you can’t teach them about Yoga”
          • “we can’t have vulgar language, oh unless it’s from our religious book”
          • “I can’t make a cake for you because you’re gay and that’s against my religion. What do you mean you won’t make a Christian cake? That’s religious discrimination!”
          • “Happy holidays!??! Happy holidays??! You monster, how dare you wage war on Christmas! We have religious liberty in this country! What do you mean that protects other religions? There’s only one God and one religion!”
          • “It’s totally fine that the polling places in large democratic areas have hours long waits so long as my polling places are quick and easy”
          • “it’s totally fine that a county with 10,000 people has the same number of ballot drop boxes as a country with 3,000,000 people”
          • “marriage is between a man and woman … and may include 17 divorces; they gays can’t have it”
          • “we need to teach kids (i.e., indoctrinate them in the ways of) Jesus not this woke (black history, trans, etc)”
          • “let’s let white kids off with a slap on the wrist while we throw a black kid in jail for smoking a plant”
          • “I can’t believe a president could have such a scandal in the white house as to have had an affair with an assistant! We need to impeach! No, I don’t think extorting an ally for information about an opponent is worthy of an impeachment! Trying to overthrow a legitimate presidental victor with a procedural trick? Nah that’s not worth an impeachment either! Oh but hey, this Biden guy’s son who lost one of his parents and a sibling in a car crash, that lost his brother to cancer, that has a drug problem, called his dad while he was in business meetings to show off… so you know his dad definitely was up to something! We’ve got to impeach him over that! What do you mean that was before he was even president and that’s completely unprecedented?”
          • “We should totally lock her up for those emails! What do you mean the guy screaming that’s son and law did the exact same thing?”
          • “We’re sorry we can’t appoint a supreme court justice just before the election! Psych! We totally can if it’s nominated by OUR president!”
          • “We need law and order in this country! What do you mean Trump broke the law? Nah, I’m not hearing it; this is clearly a partisan witch hunt and the majority conservative staff of the FBI is out to get conservatives! Oh but we’ll DEFINITELY weaponize the federal government and go after our political rivals full steam if we get the presidency in 2024”
          • “I believe abortion is amoral, that’s why I hid the fact that my ex/current lovers have had one”
          • “I believe homosexuality is amoral, that’s why I am one in the closet”
          • “we’re going to be the party of health care, but don’t watch as we strip you of your federal protections for your health care”
          • “we’re the party of the little man, but don’t watch as we cut taxes for the rich (and you but make sure that expires under the next term (probably while the Democrats are in power)”
          • “the national debt is an outage! Oh let’s spend as much as Obama did in half the time! Oh Biden is in power again, spending is out of control!”
          • “the problem isn’t guns it’s mental health, but we’re not going to do anything about that either! Must be because the kids aren’t in church, the gays, video games, or hey look over there, a squirrel!”
          • “climate change? Nah. It’s not real. Okay maybe it is, but it doesn’t matter because look at China! Oh we could make a dent and get the ball rolling? Well, it’s too late anyways, we should’ve been building nuclear plants! What do you mean I just made that up? Clearly I’ve been trying to solve this via nuclear the whole time, and it’s not another dog whistle! Oh and btw all of my top presidential candidates say they don’t believe in man made climate change! But yeah, totally serious about this issue!!”

          … and that’s just off the top of my head. If you’re a conservative, wake up, your party is a mess.

          • bitsplease@lemmy.ml
            352·
            2 years ago

            Spoiler: he’ll completely ignore this comment and just continue to go on saying that all criticisms of conservatives are baseless and unproductive

            • awwwyissss@lemm.ee
              222·
              2 years ago

              Don’t put words in my mouth or accuse my of something you made up in your mind.

              • bitsplease@lemmy.ml
                161·
                2 years ago

                I don’t need to put any words into your mouth, your reply to the comment was to ignore all the real, objectively true examples and just claim that despite the fact that they’re the actions of real conservative policy makers, that they somehow have nothing to do with real conservative policy

                You ignore the faults of real world conservatism, holding up this idealistic version of conservatism you have in your head as “real” conservatism. Ill bet you also hold that conservatism has nothing to do with anti-LGBT+, despite their policy makers constantly making anti-LGBT+ policy decisions

                • awwwyissss@lemm.ee
                  111·
                  2 years ago

                  You’re completely ignorant of who I am and you’re reinforcing my initial point that we should be careful about creating an echochamber.

                  • bitsplease@lemmy.ml
                    91·
                    2 years ago

                    And you’re reinforcing mine by continuing to not actually address any of the actual points.

                    Pointing out actual, provable examples of selective enforcement by conservatives isn’t an “echo chamber” it’s discussing real world politics

                    Ultimately it looks from my perspective like you’re falling into the classic trap of just assuming that when a lot of people disagree with you, that they’re just mindlessly repeating talking points - rather than ever considering that your own view might be skewed. Further reinforced by the fact that you steadfastly refuse to actually talk about the issue, and instead just keep deflecting and crying “ECHO CHAMBER”.

                    And no, I have no idea who you are, why should I care though? This is a discussion about conservative politics, not you or your feelings.

              • CADmonkey@lemmy.world
                131·
                2 years ago

                Don’t put words in my mouth or accuse my of something you made up in your mind.

                Translation: I don’t have an argument for any of the things posted so I’m going to accuse a random person of something instead

          • awwwyissss@lemm.ee
            215·
            2 years ago

            Yeah… I agree. None of that makes selective enforcement the core of conservative laws.

            • Wakmrow@lemmy.world
              121·
              2 years ago

              I agree those are bad examples.

              Better examples:

              Phillando Castile. All for gun rights until a black man is shot while legally owning a gun. One could run down the list of black people (and children) who have been murdered by the police because they “thought there was a gun”. Guns are legal and they’re quite vocal about supporting the right to bear arms (but only if you look white).

              Jan 6. All for upholding law and order and obeying the police until they don’t get what they want. They lied about the cities in this country being destroyed during the Floyd uprisings as if America was gone.

              All of the anti-trans laws passed are to “protect children” and yet they have not gone after any of the abuse scandals in churches or law enforcement.

              Build the wall. Enforced only against black and brown people at the southern border.

              How about holding the supreme court seat for a year?

              We could continue but I’ll just boil it down with a pithy quote: there are those who the law must protect but does not bind and there are those that the law must bind but not protect. That is the conservative idea. Go read the only moral abortion is my abortion with that statement in mind and it’ll make sense.

        • hglman@lemmy.mlEnglish
          424·
          2 years ago

          Sort of, but also, Christianity is a death cult that enables child molesters and promotes hate, so there is not much room for subtly. It is also profoundly lacking in any basis of reality and frankly teaches deranged ideas that harm children’s ability to make rational judgments about reality.

          Also a church is the worst kind of echo chamber.

        • Tyfud@lemmy.one
          121·
          2 years ago

          Broadly speaking though, it’s true. Do you have counter examples to offer?

          • awwwyissss@lemm.ee
            28·
            2 years ago

            A counter example of what? A conservative law that doesn’t have selective enforcement at its core?

    • Alien Nathan Edward@lemm.ee
      451·
      2 years ago

      We all knew they were gonna figure out a way that the law doesn’t apply to them and the stuff they like. That’s like the fundamental constant of conservatives, it’s different when we do it because we’re not those people.

    • SeaJ@lemm.ee
      35·
      2 years ago

      Porn just needs some inspirational quotes to go along with it.

    • socsa@lemmy.ml
      32·
      2 years ago

      TBF understanding that horses are known for their voluminous ejaculation is critical knowledge for children.

    • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
      28·
      2 years ago

      Time to start giving the kids leaflets that highlight all the Communist teachings of Christ. Use The Bible to radicalize the youth!

      Betcha they yank the book, tout suite.

      • Kittenstix@lemmy.world
        9·
        2 years ago

        They’d just lie and say the pamphlets are twisting Jesus’ words and use that as a pretext to ban the pamphlets.

        Cognitive dissonance is a helluva drug