As we ramp up in America for the 2012 Political Bonanza, perhaps we might think about how else our country could improve. Of course, the right to life is the fundamental right underlying all other rights. After all, if you are not alive, how can you appeal to any other rights or freedoms?

All political law derives (or should derive) from natural law. See the end of Saint Thomas Aquinas’ Prima secundae of the Summa for details. This means that being anti-abortion is not merely Catholic (revealed by divine law), but that it is essentially natural (derives from natural law). Human nature demands not only procreation, but the protection and education of offspring. Killing children is immoral because it is unnatural – it is contrary to human nature.

The same goes for marriage. Human nature, since it is naturally inclined to procreation, also has natural laws governing that procreative activity. These are the laws of matrimony. This is why matrimony requires a male and a female. It takes a man and a woman to have a baby. Period. Close the book.

Now Catholics are fighting for both preservation of life (pro-life) and for the protection of how life is procreated (traditional marriage). However, I think we should add a third plank to this battle – the battle against pornography.

The pornography industry is absolutely evil and its tentacles stretch to every television and computer in the world. Just as our nation condemns child pornography as criminal and actively seeks to shut it down within our borders, so also the United States should do the same WITH ALL PORNOGRAPHY. Pornography isn’t good for anyone, children or adults. It’s victimizes and corrupts the naked and the one who looks upon the naked. It is opposed to charity, justice, and the corporal work of mercy of clothing the naked. It victimizes women especially. It arrests the mental and social development of teenage boys through narcissism and false fantasies. (Ladies, do you wander why there are so few real men nowadays?)

It is not unreasonable to ask our legislators do move for the illegality pornography in the United States. Someone may argue, well you will always be able to find porn, so why try to stop it? That is the lazy-libertarian argument. You might as well say, “Well there will always be murders. So why try to stop it?”

Pornography, like abortion, and deformed “unions” are contrary to natural law. We should begin to speak out against it and pray for its criminalization.

Pro-Life

Pro-Traditional Marriage

Now what do you call being against pornography? Suggestions?

PS: If you don’t have a filter on all of your computers, get one now. Young people especially can fall into evil pictures by just searching for photos. I recommend Net Nanny, but there are others. Bite the bullet. Pay the money. Protect yourself and your family.