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Rick Santorum wants to kill porn
Fri, 03/16/2012 - 11:14am | posted by Tom Knighton
Porn, particularly internet porn, may well find itself an endangered species should Rick Santorum somehow find himself as President. How do we know this? Well, because he’s said as much apparently:
Santorum says in a statement posted to his website, “The Obama Administration has turned a blind eye to those who wish to preserve our culture from the scourge of pornography and has refused to enforce obscenity laws.”
If elected, he promises to “vigorously” enforce laws that “prohibit distribution of hardcore (obscene) pornography on the Internet, on cable/satellite TV, on hotel/motel TV, in retail shops and through the mail or by common carrier.”
As the above linked article points out, porn is a tricky thing. Obscenity laws are very vague, with no real legal definition that one person can point to and things be clear that whether something is obscene or not. Instead, it uses things like “community standards”, which are also incredibly vague.
That’s not to say Santorum wouldn’t have any success. However, whether he has success or not is rather irrelevant.
Take a look around for a moment. We have a nation that is falling apart. The constitution is practically on life support, and Congress is doing it’s best to pull the plug on it. American citizens can be detained indefinitely thanks to the NDAA. There are constant assaults on the internet through laws like SOPA. Now, the Secret Service can declare anywhere it wants as being off limits to free speech, and speaking your mind can constitute a felony. And where does Rick Santorum’s line in the sand fall? Apparently, on yet another action that involves consenting adults.
If Santorum was talking about keeping porn out of kids’ hands, I might be a bit more accepting. As a parent, I make that my job, but I can sort of see where he’s coming from on that. He’s not. He’s talking about preventing me and my wife from watching something that was created by consenting adults, for consenting adults, sold to a willing customer who was also a consenting adult. That’s where this man’s priorities are?
Thanks Rick. I never thought anyone could convince me that Romney was a hell of a choice. You have convinced me otherwise.
I knew Santorum has some HARD CORE beliefs, but this is ridiculus.
Santorum’s “morality” has worried me from the start. His appeal to the evangelical right is his strength, and he comes by it honestly. We’ve seen this before. While the 911 terrorists were plotting against us, Ashcroft made sure he covered up the statue of Justice because she was bare-chested. That is NOT the kind of priority I want in my elected official.
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