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Santorum Says He Would Enforce US Obscenity Laws That Obama Ignores By NBC's Andrew Rafferty ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, IL -- Rick Santorum accused President Barack Obama of not enforcing the country's obscenity laws and said Friday that as chief executive he would crack down on illegal pornography. Santorum found himself answering pornography questions during a stop at an Italian restaurant here after the discovery of a statement posted in his campaign website in which he asserts that "America is suffering a pandemic of harm from pornography." Recent reporting has shed light on the letter in which the former Pennsylvania senator vowed...

Student journalists on La Serna High School's newspaper The Freelancer have a track record of tackling serious subjects. Previous issues of the monthly campus paper have looked at such topics as the differences in religions and teen drug use and drug abuse. But the May issue of The Freelancer, in which the staff put a spotlight on teenage sexuality - including a column on homosexuality, a campus sex quiz and a glossary of sexually oriented medical terms - pushed the edgy publication to the extreme in the eyes of some school administrators and parents. In the fallout, the newspaper's advisor...

WASHINGTON -- Lam Nguyen's job is to sit for hours in a chilly, quiet room devoid of any color but gray and look at pornography. This job, which Nguyen does earnestly from 9 to 5, surrounded by a half-dozen other "computer forensic specialists" like him, has become the focal point of the Justice Department's operation to rid the world of porn. In this field office in Washington, 32 prosecutors, investigators and a handful of FBI agents are spending millions of dollars to bring anti-obscenity cases to courthouses across the country for the first time in 10 years. Nothing is off...

Contrary to What Some May Think, War Against Illegal Obscenity is Far From Over, Says Morality in Media 7/28/03 2:40:00 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To: National Desk Contact: Morality in Media, 212-870-3222; e-mail: mim@moralityinmedia.org Web: http://www.moralityinmedia.org NEW YORK, July 28 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Robert Peters, president of Morality in Media had the following comments in response to Frank Rich's article, "Finally, Porn Does Prime Time," which appeared in Sunday's (July 27) New York Times: "'We've come a long way, baby,' bubbled Frank Rich, a fountainhead of moral wisdom at the New York Times, in his 'Finally, Porn Does Prime Time.' 'But...