GOP Platform Calls For Prosecutors To ‘Vigorously’ Prosecute Porn

[웃 910]

Republicans are said to be the party of deregulation, but their platform this year aims to seriously regulate the pornography industry through strict enforcement of laws against porn or other materials deemed “obscene.”

In a copy of the GOP platform expected to be approved this week, one line reads, “Current laws on all forms of pornography and obscenity need to be vigorously enforced,” indicating that Republicans could be on track to try to cut down on Americans’ access to pornography writ large, as opposed to specifically targeting child pornography, which past Republican platforms have done.

This opposition to pornography is consistent with anti-porn pledges signed by presidential candidate Mitt Romney, one of which included the virtually identical language calling for “strict enforcement of our nation’s obscenity laws.” Yet the GOP’s anti-porn platform is far from consistent with its persistent rhetoric aboutkeeping regulation out of the way of job-creating industries:

Though previous Republican platforms have called for increased prosecution of child pornography,

this appears to be the first time that the party has called for a crackdown on sexually explicit material involving adults – a multi-billion-dollar industry

[...]

The Internet research firm TopTenReviews estimated that

adult pornography revenues through magazines, the Internet and video sales and rentals totaled $9.4 billion in 2006

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A widespread crackdown on porn would also be inconsistent with the Constitution. As the Supreme Court explained in Miller v. California, the First Amendment protects pornography unless the material “portray sexual conduct in a patently offensive way” and does not have any “serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value.”

Romney apparent opposition to pornography has not prevented him from taking big dollar donations from porn industry moguls. Nor will it help him with his base: Men. According to Bloomberg Businessweek, men make up 75 percent of porn site visitors, and they seem to care more about porn than they do about politics: One single porn site received “4.4 billion page views per month. That’s about 10 times as many as the New York Times and three times as many as CNN.com.”

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Did they write that part of the platform while hanging out at The Emperors Club?

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

With a wink and a nod, eh? It is really is a bunch of impotent old men and shriveled up spinsters that write the platform that everybody else ignores. Years ago, Buchanan was so thrilled to get his plank calling for a Constitutional amendment to overturn Roe v. Wade in the platform that almost every candidate ran away from. Hence the phrase, "I will support established law."

Edited August 28, 2012 by The Patriot

[X Factor 1,112]

Did they write that part of the platform while hanging out at The Emperors Club?

Apparently not

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

So now all the liberal feminists will vote for Romney?

[james&olya 1,121]

A lot of them are doing something very vigorously with porn down there in Florida!

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

A lot of them are doing something very vigorously with porn down there in Florida!

There's nothing better for the adult entertainment industry than a large gathering of Republicans in town. That's a fact.

[slim 1,533]

Romney is a douche. I bet he's a closet freak too.

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

GOP Platform Calls For Prosecutors To 'Vigorously' Prosecute Porn

Republicans are said to be the party of deregulation, but their platform this year aims to seriously regulate the pornography industry through strict enforcement of laws against porn or other materials deemed "obscene."

In a copy of the GOP platform expected to be approved this week, one line reads, "Current laws on all forms of pornography and obscenity need to be vigorously enforced," indicating that Republicans could be on track to try to cut down on Americans' access to pornography writ large, as opposed to specifically targeting child pornography, which past Republican platforms have done.

This opposition to pornography is consistent with anti-porn pledges signed by presidential candidate Mitt Romney, one of which included the virtually identical language calling for "strict enforcement of our nation's obscenity laws." Yet the GOP's anti-porn platform is far from consistent with its persistent rhetoric aboutkeeping regulation out of the way of job-creating industries:

Though previous Republican platforms have called for increased prosecution of child pornography,

this appears to be the first time that the party has called for a crackdown on sexually explicit material involving adults – a multi-billion-dollar industry

[...]

The Internet research firm TopTenReviews estimated that

adult pornography revenues through magazines, the Internet and video sales and rentals totaled $9.4 billion in 2006

.

A widespread crackdown on porn would also be inconsistent with the Constitution. As the Supreme Court explained in Miller v. California, the First Amendment protects pornography unless the material "portray sexual conduct in a patently offensive way" and does not have any "serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value."

Romney apparent opposition to pornography has not prevented him from taking big dollar donations from porn industry moguls. Nor will it help him with his base: Men. According to Bloomberg Businessweek, men make up 75 percent of porn site visitors, and they seem to care more about porn than they do about politics: One single porn site received "4.4 billion page views per month. That's about 10 times as many as the New York Times and three times as many as CNN.com."

This part of the Republican party I detest.

[mawilson 2,133]

How can you prosecute something that's not illegal?

[Darnell 8,479]

Porn? That trillion dollar industry on the left coast?

Well, there went that vote and monies for the PACs.

YAR !

[Darnell 8,479]

Romney is a douche. I bet he's a closet freak too.

His closets are bigger than mine, alas - complete with restraining straps and whatnots.

So now all the liberal feminists will vote for Romney?

Huh? I thought the bigger ones owned minority partnerships in the porn production houses on the left coast.