Charlton,
Of course we can agree that there is a line.
Child pornography (I'm not arguing just a little underage, but very underage) is justifiably illegal because children do not have the capacity to consent to such activity.
If you are asking me if *thinking* about it or drawing it or writing about it should be illegal, then I say "no".
Using this and your other examples point to where I think the line should be drawn: If a person or group of persons can reasonably feel threatened/endangered by such speech, then it is reasonable for society to ban it.
Using this as my personal guide, I cannot agree that publishing references to Biblical passages purportedly condemning homosexuality mets this criteria.
Offensive? Absolutely.
Illegal? It should not be in a free society.
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"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." – C. S. Lewis
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