Robinson is a far right, born again Christian culture warrior. This is newsworthy because it’s extremely hypocritical of him.

But Robinson has used the word “pornography” to describe everything from music and network television to LGBTQ-themed children’s books. During this year’s N.C. Republican Party Convention, for example, Robinson called public school teachers and administrators “all-powerful bureaucrats … who believe it’s OK to feed your children a steady diet of communism and pornography.”

Not that hypocrisy is new to Robinson. He also said

”Abortion in this country is not about protecting the lives of mothers. It’s about killing the child because you weren’t responsible enough to keep your skirt down,”

after having paid for his wife’s abortion.

He has said that trans women should be

“arrested” if they go in a women’s bathroom. Instead, he suggests they should “find a corner outside somewhere” to relieve themselves.

He has also said that “some people just need killing” in a speech where he railed against a variety of evil people including rapists, liberals, socialists and communists.

He is thoroughly a piece of shit, and unfortunately there’s a chance he’ll be the governor of North Carolina. With an extremely Republican state legislature (currently a supermajority), he would be able to make life miserable for a lot of people.

he's a bible spouting, socially controlling, christian fundmentalist who has abhorrent ideas on virtually every point of human concern.

I think the hypocrisy of his personal vs public persona is relevant.

whether this issue is of any real importance is debatable, but us politics is usually pure toxic poison, so it may have a small effect on the state election.

I know nothing about this specific person. But the American Republican party is on a bit of a hypocritical purity crusade. They claim that porn is bad. They are the ones getting all worked up about other peoples sexual life, because it somehow affects the sanctity of their marriage.

So this article is pointing out his hypocrisy. He is doing something wrong by his own standards, so what room does he have to try to make laws about his stupid beliefs when he doesn't even follow them himself.

So, the scandal isn’t that he does it, it’s that he is extremely vocally against it and legislates against it. The “gotcha” isn’t shaming him for enjoying himself, it’s scolding him for demonizing natural behavior while doing it himself.

Nobody would give a single flying fuck what he did if he minded his own goddam business.

Welcome to the US where everything is politicized. You're right it shouldn't matter but he comes from a political party that shames any form of sex outside of a married man and woman. They're already trying to make porn illigal but many of them, including my parents, would make masturbation illegal too if they could.

You’re absolutely correct.

This is pointing out the hypocrisy of a member of the Biblical prude party buying sex toys.

The religious right in the US believes that watching porn is the same thing as cheating on your wife

That's not the problem. The problem (I'm not looking him specifically up) is that many GOP are anti porn, anti gay, anti sex outside marriage, anti sex education, and many of us think they are anti contraception.

Sorry, I am not from the US. So this guy consumed porn. And what? Relax people!

That part's fine, but this weirdo loser actually paid for it! What kind of pathetic idiot does that, instead of downloading it for free like a normal non-desperate person?!

(Yes, even in the '90s - 2000s.)