Quote: (03-15-2013 08:55 PM)Lemmo Wrote:
I'm not going to sift through more links. The fact that you are having to Google examples when you supposedly spent time living among all these "freedom hating religious people" proves the point that you just had a knee jerk opinion against red states and then tried to justify it after the fact. The truth is that these states are dominated by conservatives and yet do not impose the sorts of restrictions on speech that are on the books in Europe or at least seriously debated in the EU and national legislatures. All you've come up with is some campaign quotes, a sex toy ban (on selling in shops not having) and a ban on booze in fully nude strip clubs. Hardly compares to bans on porn and broad restrictions of "sexist" or "racist" speech you have in some EU countries.
Google links are more credible than me telling you about experience walking into a strip club in Arkansas.
As for the campaign quotes, yes, that is what you would have seen if those nutjobs had been elected into office. All the states that I mentioned actually voted for one of those guys to become President. It just showed that the top contenders on the Right would have been in complete agreement with this legislation. Bad porn, destroying fundamental family values, etc. etc. So, it is completely relevant.
The EU porn ban didn't pass either. So, railing against it and claiming that this is what "leftist governments do" and "telling people what to think" is the real knee jerk reaction.