Heavens to Betsy – Obama Skips Church!

By Lindsey, PolitiPorn Religion Editor and Author of the new novel Honest Conversation available HERE

Recent reports show that President-Elect Obama hasn’t attended a
church service since the election.  This news, showing that he goes to
the gym and then stays home on Sundays, has small pockets of people
concerned.

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Falling Short of the Glory

By Lindsey, PolitiPorn Religion Editor & Correspondent

Morals.  Politics.  What can we- or should we- expect from our leaders?  Throughout time immemorial we have seen people rise up to lead the masses- and for just as long, those people have been flawed.  Here in the United States the masses have decreed that the reason government has always been flawed is because we have chosen the wrong kinds of leaders.  The logic goes that we must choose leaders whose homes and personal lives and individual morality is in proper order.  Then, the people say, we will have good governments.

“Hm,” I reply, “it certainly sounds nice- but…  really?”

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Prostitution & Porn – 6 of 1, Half Dozen of Another

by Shush, PolitiPorn Religion Correspondent (the views expressed here by Shush are not necessarily those of PolitiPorn, its Editors, or its subsidiaries. OK, maybe we agree to some extent BUT porn can’t be that bad? Come on, Porn is the only money-maker on the Internet besides Amazon.  The views expressed here by Shush are not the views of Amazon.com as far as we know.  I placed a call with Amazon and I’m waiting to hear back, I’ll update later.)

Nice churchgoing girl of good family and breeding asks:  Why is prostitution illegal but pornography is an industry?

Fresh on the heels of the DC Madame’s suicide I found this question heavy in my mind.  Not simply because had prostitution been legal there would be one more woman alive today, but because prostitution and the production of pornography don’t seem so horribly different in my mind.  In both cases money changes hands over sex acts, right?  So why is it illegal for Senator Vitter to pay a woman to diaper and spank him, but yet it could be legal for said woman to pay him to be diapered and spanked on tape?  Why don’t all of these sex crazed men simply give up their lucrative jobs in politics for equally lucrative but much wetter and wilder jobs in the porn industry?  (No, wait, don’t answer that.  Horrible mental picture.  Bad, bad idea.)

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