Anti-pornography crusaders Morality in Media are soliciting donations to fight pornography, specifically seeking money to work with members of the House of Representatives to help them pass their part of a concurrent resolution calling for the attorney general to prosecute more obscenity cases.
The Senate passed their version of the concurrent resolution, Senate Concurrent Resolution 77, in November by unanimous consent.
Unanimous consent is a procedure that does not require a vote; a member of congress proposes a resolution and if there are no objections, the resolution passes. The procedure is used for resolutions that do not affect law.
Morality in Media has already taken out a full page ad in the Washington Times National Weekly , a right-wing newspaper, calling on the House of Representatives to pass their version of the resolution, House Concurrent Resolution 298, which is identical to the one passed in the Senate.
Morality in Media claims that their attorneys drafted both concurrent resolutions.
Currently, H. Con Res. 298 is stuck in the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet, where it has been since October. It is not yet scheduled for review.
The anti-porn organization sent out an email last week soliciting funds to pay outside consultants, buy more ads, and work closer with Congress to pass the resolution, which according to the email is their way of continuing to “fight to insure criminal prosecution of pornographers and educate and 'enlist’ the American public in the war against illegal obscenity."
