What is it about a pornographic image that so irks the sensibilities of the Christian right? Is it that porn leads to the inequality of women? Is it concerned with violence and/or discrimination? Perpetuating equality and admonishing violence and discrimination are seemingly unanimous aims, however I wonder if the right hasn’t found a convenient rationale to shadow its otherwise stifling agenda.

The right has fought hard to eradicate the empowerment of women for years, namely by denouncing both sex education and birth control. With regard to porn, however, the right seems justified in assuming the posture of equal rights crusader. Adding fuel to an already strange brew, feminist groups do not seem irked by this position. The two storm the San Fernando Valley hand-in-hand, screaming censorship in concert. Is this the type of armageddon Robertson and Falwell envisioned? Cats and dogs living in harmony, consciously tabling the chase?

Or is this perhaps a more enlightened sect of rightists? Can one be consumed with the disparities of inequality yet all the while pray for the death of modernism? Surely not. While the feminists rail against discriminatory images, the right has discovered a window to better articulate its seedier campaign: namely the abolition of education.

Under the guise of equality the right has every intention of censoring not only the Larry Flynts of the world, but further, any and all information concerning AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases, sexual identification, abortion and contraception. Beneath any whisper of progressive thought looms an already established disdain for self-empowerment. Give them an inch and they will take your soul.