Welcome to Pines of the Quiner's episode 73.5. I'm Matt Frad.

What would Thomas Aquinas say about Hugh Hefner? That's what I want to address really briefly in this little episode.

Little episode? Yeah, little episode.

Hey, thanks for being with us. If I sound a little deflated and tired, it's because I'm tired. It's a 25 in the morning and I haven't had my coffee yet. I hope you have.

Look, by now you've heard the news. Founder of Playboy, Hugh Hefner is dead.

Reactions to his death have been as spirited as they've been diverse.

On one end, you've got the mainstream media end, the New York Times end, the Cosmo ridiculous end.

You've got those who are hailing him as essentially a champion of free speech and a liberator of the sexually repressed.

Ugh, vomit emoji. My friend Patrick Truman from the National Center on Sexual Exploitation wrote a great article yesterday.

I'll throw in the show notes so you can check it out. The Washington Examiner is where the article is.

And he said this among other things. He said,

Hugh Hefner was not a champion of free speech. He was a pioneer in the sexual objectification and use of women.

Okay? Right, so the, anyway, but I'm digressing here.

On the other end of this spectrum, you have people, even Christians, who have apparently no qualms expressing their unveiled hatred of the man.

Just yesterday, Jason Everett tweeted this out. I thought it was very good. He said,

Hugh Hefner, the founder of Playboy, just passed away. Please join us in praying for his soul and for everyone wounded from his choices.

Although that was a great tweet because it summed up both. Like, we want to pray for him,

but we don't want to just like whitewash the man and all that he's done.

But anyway, look at this tweet that was direct. The first response was this, clearly from a Catholic.

He said, I will not pray for him. I hope he spends a lot of time in purgatory, lots of it.

And that's if he asks for salvation, shame on you, Hugh Hefner.

Well, look, I understand the man's reaction. I think, you know, many of us realize that the pornographic revolution was probably started or spread perhaps by Hugh Hefner.

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