Masters of Moral, Servants of Sin

I reported on this here. No one cared, so here's a follow-up:

The U.S. House of Representatives has approved child-safety legislation that includes a provision bringing some legitimate film and TV productions under the same federal-reporting requirements as X-rated films...

Under the provision authored by Rep. Mike Pence, R-Ind., the definition of sexual activity is expanded to include simulated sex acts like those that appear in many movies and TV shows...

Last year, the House approved a similar measure, but it languished in the Senate as lawmakers could not decide how to proceed on hate-crimes language that also was attached to the legislation. The new legislation left the hate-crimes language out of the bill in the hopes that it would have an easier time in the Senate.

Why does this irritate me so much? Well, part of it's the amount of time the Republican-led House has spent shaping this stupid piece of legislation into something that the Senate will approve. And part of it's the fact that a congressional waste of time will soon turn into a judicial waste of time when this law is ultimately challenged.

But mostly it's the disingenuous opportunity conservative Republicans have taken to yet again foist their morality on the country, by attacking simulated sexual activity in movies and on TV under the guise of making children safer and reducing violent crime.

I am so tired and sick of the of the U.S. government's twisted moral agenda. Samuel Taylor Coleridge once said, "Whoever supermoralizes unmoralizes." And we've seen enough in the last five years to know that he was right.

(The complete article is here.)