Originally published at: Trade group sues Utah over anti-porn law | Boing Boing
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The dessicated Mormon elders who run Utah are like all other conservatives: deluded King Canutes thinking they can push back the tidal wave that is desire for porn.
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And yet, I think the PornHub yearly results by state for Utah were Mormon porn. 
(I mean, what the heck is that??)
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Heterosexual cis white people, partially clothed, having intercourse in missionary position? (The really wild stuff has them talking to each other.)
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Or soaking/bumping
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FFS!
(Literally.)
“Yeah, my religion means so much to me that I invest a disproportionate amount of effort trying to find loopholes to get round its rules.”
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Ars Technica pointed out that Utah modelled their law after Louisiana. Mindgeek went along with Louisiana’s plan without much fuss because LA provided a mechanism for verification. Mindgeek actually recommended Utah implement a similar system in their complaint. Their biggest issue was that Utah was offloading the expense and liability onto them, not so much the 1st amendment issues.
Also it should be noted, these are more shitty “someone can sue you” laws that seem so popular these days, particularly around hard to enforce sexual morality bullshit. That way they get around “yeah but how will you enforce it?” arguments and shift everything to the lower-burden-of-proof civil courts.
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It demonstrates piety? It demonstrates that you take the rules seriously? It amuses the diety?
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You can’t be ‘diety’ if your deity is the FSM! 
Those noodly carbs will show eventually.
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“Rules lawyering” and “taking the rules seriously” seem almost diametrically opposed to me.
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That’s because you aren’t a lawyer.
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I always assume it means you think so little of your deity that the person using this loophole thinks their god will follow the letter and not the spirit of the law, Presumably, this omniscient, omnipotent being, cannot see through this trick and even if it did, would simply chuckle and say “Oh well, I guess you got me on that one. Shucks, come on in then,” instead of smiting entire countries because it woke up grumpy as it has done in the past.
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IMHO, it really depends on the deity.
Loki? He’d probably be down with it.
Yahweh? Yeah, grumpy head would get smiting.
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Time to consult the comparative religions textbooks.
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Hey, if God wanted the rules to be different, he should have written them better! (/s, mostly)
Loki? He’d probably be down with it.
Yahweh? Yeah, grumpy head would get smiting.
I think you might be surprised? See the story of Rabbi Eliezer and the Oven of Akhnai, or Sabbath elevators, or the whole concept of an eruv, or the arguments over the rule for stoning a rebellious son and how it can never be carried out justly in practice. Judaism (at least most strains?) specifically and deliberately states that God gave Moses the laws, and the rules for interpreting them, and thereafter it’s up to us to figure out what they mean.
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“Who’s your elder?”
“Ooh, I love it when you talk Mormon.”
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Yeah, I think I’ll skip the Broo porn.
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I like to do my own research so I checked. My best guess is much like the step moms aren’t actually having sex with their step sons they ain’t really Mormons having group sex.
I was only able to research 3 videos though.
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