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Originally posted by LegendaryLars
If you were a christian your church told you that god likes bush because god is against gays and against abortion. Porn is a sin too ! There are simply more christians in america than non christians.
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The primary differences between the New Testament and the Old are that Christ introduced the concept of personal salvation and he told his followers to be tolerant of others, leaving judgement to God. Hot-button politics may involve some issues that appeal to so-called Christians, but intolerance has nothing to do with true Christianity.
Be that as it may, emotive appeals work and they have always been used to some extent. However, in the past in the US (except for the McCarthy era) their use has been restricted to the message and not the issue.
Now the Republicans have used emotive issues themselves to win an election: the exact same technique as put Hitler in power and is behind the rise of Islamic fundamentalism. It's a Pandora's box that will be very hard to close because it worked so effectively and as you point out, porn is an obvious next target.
The only consolation is that you must not win too easily, because then the issue goes away and ceases to work for you. Hopefully this means we will only be under a gradual assault.