I think both hurt the God ordained family structure.
I will post some info on porn first, will get back to gay marriage.
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It is now estimated that one in 10 Americans is physiologically addicted to Internet porn.
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2016 Utah Declares Pornography ‘Public Health Crisis’
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...-public-health-crisis/?utm_term=.6fbebc464729
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"Decades of peer-reviewed research prove that pornography shapes people’s
views of intimacy, sexual violence and gender equality in a bad way."
The Utah House of Representatives unanimously passed a resolution declaring
pornography a “public health crisis.” This represents the first time in
United States history that a legislative body has passed such a measure.
While the resolution doesn’t restrict pornography in any way, it is meant to raise public
awareness of the devastating health impacts and societal harms of pornography addiction.
The official text of this resolution cites pornography as a root cause for “low self-esteem,”
“problematic sexual activity at younger ages,” “lessening desire in young men to marry,”
“infidelity,” “abuse of women and children,” “prostitution” and “sex trafficking.”
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In a Washington Post editorial, Gail Dines wrote:
Extensive scientific research reveals that exposure to and consumption of porn threaten the
social, emotional and physical health of individuals, families and communities, and highlights
the degree to which porn is a public health crisis rather than a private matter.
But just as the tobacco industry argued for decades that there was no proof of a connection
between smoking and lung cancer, so, too, has the porn industry, with the help of a well-oiled
public-relations machine, denied the existence of empirical research on the impact of its products.
One study, published in Sexual Addiction & Compulsivity, found that college men exposed to
mainstream pornography within the past 12 months were more likely to admit that they would
commit rape or sexual assault if they knew they wouldn’t get caught.
Lines 45 through 47 of Utah’s resolution state: “WHEREAS, pornography equates violence
towards women and children with sex and pain with pleasure, which increases the demand
for sex trafficking, prostitution, child sexual abuse images, and child pornography.”
Lines 58 through 61 of Utah’s resolution state: “WHEREAS, pornography use is linked to
lessening desire in young men to marry, dissatisfaction in marriage, and infidelity… this link
demonstrates that pornography has a detrimental effect on the family unit.”
Another study, conducted in 2012, found that college-aged women suffered diminished self-
esteem, relationship quality and sexual satisfaction in direct correlation with their partner’s
porn usage. A 2002 survey of America’s top divorce lawyers also revealed that over half
of all divorce cases in the nation involve a spouse hooked on pornography sites.
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This claim is backed up by the testimony of infamous rapist and serial killer Ted Bundy.
Just before his execution in 1989, Bundy placed much of the blame for his actions on his
pornography addiction:
In the beginning, it [pornography] fuels this kind of thought process. … Like an addiction,
you keep craving something which is harder, harder—something which gives you a greater
sense of excitement—until you reach the point where the pornography only goes so far.
You reach that jumping-off point where you begin to wonder if maybe actually doing it
would give you that which is beyond just reading about it or looking at it.
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Sadly, this resolution by the Utah House of Representatives probably isn’t going to have any
effect on bringing this figure down. It is a rare example, however, of a state legislature at least
trying to fight against society’s moral decline."
"Like the drug industry, the pornography industry won’t be completely eradicated until public
demand for its vile product ceases. Until the day when indecent books no longer find a market
and pornographic films [online] can no longer draw an audience, the devastating health impacts
and societal harms of pornography will continue."
Utah Declares Pornography ‘Public Health Crisis’
https://www.thetrumpet.com/article/...tah-declares-pornography-public-health-crisis
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U.S. Courts: Defenders of the Porn
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_Online_Protection_Act
A U.S. district judge has ruled against the 1998 Child Online Protection Act (copa),
designed to protect children from online pornography.
Judge Lowell Reed Jr. argued: “[P]erhaps we do the minors of this country harm
if First Amendment protections, which they will with age inherit fully, are chipped
away in the name of their protection.” In other words, if the ruling were upheld,
it might become marginally more difficult for adults to access pornographic content
and much more difficult for children (abcnews.com, March 22).
The plaintiffs against "copa" ranged from homosexual newspapers to so-called “sex
educators”who feel they should be able to disseminate explicit pictures for educational
purposes, and from artists who portray nude content to bookstores that may offer adult
-only content—in other words, exactly the sort of people and organizations many would
like not to influence their children with pornographic material.
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U.S. court has struck down other laws that protect children from pornography. In
1997, the Supreme Court declared the Communications Decency Act unconstitutional,
specifically stating that prohibiting “patently offensive display” violated the First
Amendment (cnetnews.com, June 26, 1997).
In 2002, the high court struck down the 1996 Child Pornography Prevention Act,
giving the okay to “virtual” child pornography (never mind that modern technology
allows simulations that would be indistinguishable from the real thing).
April 16, 2007 the U.S. Supreme Court struck down as unconstitutional major sections
of legislation passed by Congress in a 1996 Child Pornography Prevention Act.
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First Amendment says people can watch porn, but they become a slave to it.
Sadly America is addicted to porn, this effects all Americans and family's in
its way,gay straight or other. a public health crisis rather than a private matter.
I heard "Greens" recently said that Porn is So Popular: It Hurts the Environment.
Pornography is one of the most destructive industries in the world, not because
of its impact on the environment, but because of its impact on the family.
