Certainly as libertarians one should be as free as the wind to show pornographic content of any kind (of consenting adults) with consenting adults. Presumably this includes porn of the Buddha, the god Vishnu, Jesus Christ, and a panoply of other divine figures (Thor, Odin, Hathor, Ra, too!). However, an artist in Sweden by the name of Lars Vilks in a lecture about free speech showed a video depicting the Prophet of Islam in a manner suggesting homosexual conduct (aka, his head pasted on naked men’s bodies) and was met with a fury well beyond that which would be caused by yelling “Fire” in the packed auditorium.
So, I ask you, is the libertarian stance on this as cut and dry as I assume it to be (free people are free to watch and disseminate whatever they want to whomever they want) or are there limits imposed on certain things (such as not being allowed to depict sacred individuals in gratuitous sexual positions)?
