Earlier this week anti-porn activists Morality in Media sent a letter to President George W. Bush encouraging him to declare his support for “vigorous” enforcement of obscenity laws in honor of Pornography Awareness Week.
The letter was signed by approximately 100 anti-porn activists including representatives from the Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, and Mormon religions, as well as the usual suspects such as the heads of each chapter of Citizens for Community Values. A number of retired FBI agents also signed the letter.
Pornography Awareness Week, which is scheduled to begin the last Sunday of October every year and runs until the next Sunday, will begin on October 26 this year.
A press release regarding the request was sent out yesterday, the day before the anniversary of 9/11. While the release was largely ignored by mainstream media, the timing of the release combined by the wording of the letter attempts to equate the terrorist acts that brought down the World Trade Center with pornography.
“We appreciate the danger that terrorism continues to pose,” the letter reads.
“But there is a second battle that must also be fought. It is a battle for our children and families and a for a safe and decent society.”
The letter goes on to call for a two-front battle to be waged by the government – terrorism on one front and pornography on the other.
The letter makes no mention of the spread of pornography in areas such as Afghanistan where the government’s battle against terrorism are being waged.
Prior to the United States led overthrow of the Taliban in Afghanistan as part of the war on terrorism, porn was highly illegal. Now, as reported by mainstream media, it is commonplace.
Accompanying the letter was a “draft” version of the proclamation Morality in Media would like the president to sign. The proclamation states that pornography is an epidemic, encourages children to molest each other and interferes with a healthy marriage.
