It's in the Code ep 177: "Porn Again"

Straight White American Jesus

Axis Mundi Media: Bradley Onishi + Daniel Miller

News, Politics

4.7 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2026

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Like many right-wing commentators, Josh Hawley argues that men’s use of pornography represents one of the most significant and pervasive social ills plaguing American society. What dangers does he believe pornography poses? And what does this fear of pornography reveal about the religious ideology expressed in his thought? What do his views reveal for us about American high-control religion? Check out this week’s episode to find out! Subscribe for $5.99 a month to get bonus content most Mondays, bonus episodes every month, ad-free listening, access to the entire 1000+ episode archive, Discord access, and more: https://axismundi.supercast.com/ Linktree: https://linktr.ee/StraightWhiteJC Order Brad's book: https://bookshop.org/a/95982/9781506482163 Subscribe to Teología Sin Vergüenza Subscribe to American Exceptionalism Donate to SWAJ: https://axismundi.supercast.com/donations/new Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Axis Mundy
0:07.0	Aux Moondy Hello and welcome to the podcast, straight white American Jesus. My name is Dan Miller,
0:35.4	Professor of Religion and Social Thought Landmark College, your host, pleased to be with you as always. As always, I want to
0:41.6	start by saying thank you for listening, thank you for contributing to all the ways you
0:45.2	support us, and certainly this series, more than anything else we do, and straight white
0:49.6	American Jesus is driven by you. So thank you. Please keep the ideas coming. Feedback, thoughts, ideas for
0:56.4	new episodes, new series, what have you. Daniel Miller Swage, Daniel Miller, S-W-A-J at gmail.com is the best
1:03.1	way to reach me. And as I've said, the last few episodes, getting ready for a series after we can
1:08.7	conclude our discussion of Josh Hawley's book on questions I couldn't
1:12.1	ask in church or questions I wasn't supposed to ask in church, however we want to phrase that.
1:16.8	If you've got some, whatever they might be, email those to me. Let me know. I'm compiling those.
1:21.2	I want to hear, you know, the kinds of questions that were used basically to shut you down.
1:25.2	If you grew up in conservative churches,
1:28.7	it didn't have to be conservative churches,
1:33.1	but oftentimes those are the ones that are sort of the focus of this,
1:34.8	but I'm open to hearing any and all of them.
1:36.1	Please keep them coming.
1:38.4	And as I say, put that in the subject heading of your email,
1:39.8	questions I couldn't ask in church,
1:41.0	or I wasn't allowed to ask in church,
1:42.4	or I wasn't supposed to ask in church,
1:49.7	and that'll help me find those. I respond to as many emails, pardon me as I can, but I know I don't get to enough and I don't want to miss those. But that's where we're sort of headed. I want to dive into this week's
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