SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. – Sometimes, the best ideas come from unexpected places. Who could have predicted it would be a place like North Carolina, for example, to cook up the undeniably great idea of establishing an official state religion back in 2013? (For some reason, this seems more like a Georgia thing.)

This week, from the most unlikely of places, comes a suggestion at least several decades overdue: Force porn-viewing at Christian universities.

I know what you’re thinking: Why only Christian universities?

Well fear not, friends, because the proposal would establish mandatory porn at all universities in the anticipation the Christian schools would object and sue, thereby triggering a wonderful form of “trickle-down economics” in which money trickles down from the government, and the plaintiffs suing it, to the lawyers representing both sides.

Strangely enough, the mandatory porn idea comes from Alison Howard, the Director of Alliance Relations at Alliance Defending Freedom, a group presumably dedicated to defending the freedom of alliances.

Typically, the ADF takes the side of Christians who don’t want to do certain things, like pay for the birth control pills of women who work for them, or make wedding cakes for homosexuals, or listen to people speaking Spanish in classrooms. Their many allies include a group called Wall Builders, a conservative group that, ironically enough, doesn’t seem to think very highly of Donald Trump, judging by the op-ed pieces they choose to link to from their home page.

So it’s kind of strange to hear this particular proposal coming from Howard — although, depending on which “relations” she’s directing with all these ADF “allies,” maybe it makes more sense than I thought at first glance.

Looking at how the proposal would move forward, Howard lays out a compelling case for the government having the legal right to force students to watch porn.

“Imagine this: The government decides that pornography is an essential element for improving sexual health among young people,” Howard writes. “So it passes a law mandating that all colleges pay for students to have cable television packages that include pornography.”

I have to take a moment to quickly note one weakness in Howard’s proposal; cable television packages that include pornography? Why would the government want to make students consume porn through a nearly obsolete platform like cable television when they could just deliver everything the porn-courses needed via the web?

Perhaps Howard is a bit of a luddite, or maybe she’s just a TV person. At any rate, the platform used isn’t the important part of the proposal; the porno-principle is what matters.

“Suppose the government, purporting to respect the religious beliefs of the college, creates an ‘accommodation,’” Howard continues. “The college that didn’t want to provide porn directly would sign a government document saying that it doesn’t want the porn included in their television plans. That document, though, would direct the same cable provider to deliver the same porn to the same students into the same dorm rooms anyway.”

I must say, I’m quite impressed with how well Howard anticipates problems here and proactively offers a reasonable solution.

This proposed accommodation does indeed seem like a great way to circumvent the religious objections of the roughly 16 Christian college administrators nationwide who haven’t already personally bookmarked Pornhub, as well as those who have bookmarked the site but don’t want anybody to know. After all, if people the administrators stroke it to gay porn all night, every night, they might take somewhat less seriously these same administrators’ religious and moral objections to same-sex marriage.

Opponents of Howard’s suggestion likely will object to the idea that Christian colleges and universities might be required to violate their principles by distributing pornography to their students, but let’s face it: Everybody knows Christian youths are among the biggest consumers of porn as things currently stand. Wouldn’t it be nice for their mentors and role models to steer them toward pornography that is more consistent with their faith, like In the Flesh or The Last Penetration Of Jesus Christ or Whore Room?

Only time will tell if Howard’s proposal gains traction in Congress, but if it does, just imagine the era of sexual liberation it would usher in on campus — or, at the very least, imagine the dramatic rise in the sales of Kleenex products at nearby convenience stores.