Greetings, parish orphans, and retrogrades.

Happy Easter Wednesday.

We are doing a bit of cleanup here on Easter week.

Over the last two weeks, the beginning of the Passion Tide and Holy Week, lots of stuff was in the news that I normally would have covered, but I was trying to keep

Rules for Retrogrades episodes clean, clean as God's fingers, as they say, so that we could

focus on the Passion Tide.

But there was a topic that came up one to two weeks ago that is very interesting that involves

many of those items in our wheelhouse here in Rules for Retrogrades that I would have

otherwise dealt with and I'm going to deal with now here on Clean Up Easter Week.

Yes, I know there's a paradox in saying that we wanted to keep it absolutely G-rated during

Passion Week and Holy Week, but not an Easter week. No, I don't need you to point that out for me.

We were really trying to be penitential then.

The topic today is Dennis Prager, Jordan Peterson, and pornography. These two men, I would start out with this

little introductory segment. These two men, Dennis Prager and Jordan Peterson, non-Christians,

are looked to as moral exemplars by young conservatives, many of whom are Christian,

and it always shocks me. It scandalizes me, to be honest. And not much does. In the Catholic

world, I'm known for being the commentator that is hard to

scandalize. Well, Peterson and Prager have done it, particularly with this conversation they had

with a fellow non-Catholic, a Protestant, on pornography and adultery and lust.

And I think Trent Horn commented on it.

I'll address Trent in the closing remarks today, and he gave, I think, insightful remarks.

But I have a way different take, even though we agree about conclusions.

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