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Porn, stalker of marriages, gets pass under Bush

Date published: 5/24/2008

BETHESDA, Md.--

Imagine that 19 pro-family and pro-decency groups such as the Family Research Council, Concerned Women for America, and Focus on the Family called a press conference to criticize the Bush administration. Wouldn't every network, news magazine, and major daily cover the event?

No. None showed up at the National Press Club on a recent Monday. Why? The criticism of Bush was over his failure "to vigorously enforce federal obscenity laws." Yawn.

What could the press have covered? How about this blistering criticism of Bush's Justice Department by Robert Peters, president of Morality in Media, the event's organizer:

"In 2002 we created a Web site to give citizens a way to report violations of federal Internet obscenity laws. Before doing so, we discussed it with Justice Department, and they said, "Great!" By February 2008, 70,000 citizen complaints were filed.

"After six years and 70,000 complaints, the Justice Department has not acted on a single complaint," asserted Peters.

Janet Shaw Crouse, of Concerned Women for America, lamented: "Obscenity is not taken seriously even by those legally charged with prosecuting offenders. So while the Justice Department is not looking, our homes are being invaded by blatantly obscene so-called 'entertainment.'"

She cited FBI research of jailed sex offenders who possessed child pornography: Some 85 percent admit to abusing children. Crouse added, "Obscenity is also used to ensnare women and girls into prostitution and sex trafficking. So-called 'modeling agencies' or 'modeling agents' take nude photos of girls and women and then threaten them with exposing these photos if they are unwilling to prostitute themselves."

Pornography also has a horrific debasing impact on the culture. There are Academy-Award winning songs like "It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp." Chicago and Miami now have the "Pimp's Ball," a spectacular event for purveyors and their tattooed whores arriving in gaudy stretch limos. Beyonce has a line of children's clothing that looks like "pedophilia chic," says Crouse.

The problem goes deeper. At a 2003 meeting of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, two-thirds of 350 divorce lawyers acknowledged that online porn contributed to more than half of the divorces they handled.


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If there were not a market for it (posted by freedomfirst , May 24, 2008 6:20 pm)    0 likes
it wouldn't exist. Besides, all these people [*#@!]ing about nudity are probably ugly as sin and are jeleaus. More than perverts look at naked people, actually I think everybody does except weirdos who maybe pull the wings off flies.

What did you expect? (posted by Daddy , May 24, 2008 6:51 am)    0 likes
No one in the Government can visit those sites on government computers~!!!! So how are they going to be checked??? Seriously, If those folks can't handle their porn, it's time to set up Porn Rehab!!

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