Age of innocence?

Artswatch | Without moral limits, everything is art | R. Albert Mohler

My theme is young girls," stated photographer David Hamilton, and his theme has landed him right on the front lines of America's culture war. Many Americans learned of the controversy when an Alabama grand jury indicted Barnes & Noble bookstores for selling Mr. Hamilton's collection The Age of Innocence as well as the work of Jock Sturges, perhaps America's most controversial photographer.

The furor over the indictments-and similar charges expected in other states-reveals one of the great moral fault-lines in America. The real question is this: Do any moral limits distinguish art from pornography? To hear the nation's cultural elite, virtually anything is permitted, so long as some critic is willing to call it art.