Yep. First abortion, now this. It isn't so much that these aren't important issues, but it serves to focus away from 0bama's principal vulnerability, which is the economy, and his secondary one in foreign policy.
Lest this take on an importance it doesn't deserve, we must recall the prominence given in the Democratic convention early meetings to Muslim and homosexual activism - first round of meetings IIRC. These may or may not turn up as platform planks but are lip service to the interested parties.
The difference between the two party platforms is one of media focus - partisan media will tend to emphasize the one that is to the advantage of their own side and dismiss criticism of those that are not. I would encourage people passionate about the issue of porn that it is extremely unlikely that anyone at the RNC shares that passion or is likely to pursue the matter very far, but one may be certain that it will be presented in the media as a deadly threat to freedom of speech. That's how politics is these days. One may avoid this by refusing to address the issue altogether but that places the Republican platform at the mercy of media approval. It must, therefore, be addressed, however insincerely.
That's why these early planks are thrown out there as they are. The ones on the Democrat side will be ignored, the ones on the Republican side will be hyperbolized. That's what happens when the media are so heavily biased.
Fight illiteracy - zot BtD. (sob!)