It's Tuesday, December 17, 2024. I'm Albert Moller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

Over the course of the last several decades, it has become very, very clear that American culture in general has gone all in for pornography. That is to say

that in the world around us, it is in general terms no longer considered a serious moral issue.

And so as you think of pornography, and by this, I mean all forms of pornography, but particularly

those available on the internet, When you think about pornography,

you recognize that there are basically only two sectors of the society right now who believe

that pornography is morally wrong. And by the way, they are not the same sector. They're not

often related together. But who would these two sectors be? What two groups in the United States

right now still think of pornography as a morally significant issue? Well, the answer would be

on the conservative side, evangelical Christians and other Christians, and those driven by

some form of religious rejection of pornography as a form of sin.

You say, well, who else would be on the field against pornography?

Interestingly enough, that would be many feminists.

In particular, radical feminists who've gone to the point of speaking of pornography

as a form of the oppression of women and the objectification of women that goes beyond any realm

of moral acceptability. And so as you look at moral opposition right now to the issue of

pornography of sexual immorality that is translated into a form of enticing entertainment,

the two sectors are basically conservative

Christians and liberal feminists. And those two groups don't agree on much, but they do agree on this.

But that also points out that they are arguing about something being immoral. They're in common

agreement about the moral judgment, but they are not anywhere close to common

agreement about why. So it's also interesting that when you look at the rest of society,

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