Posted on 12/22/2004 1:02:09 PM PST by concernedAmerican1
When the Supreme Court extended an injunction against the enforcement of the Child Online Protection Act (COPA), it also guaranteed the access by innocent children to on-line porn. Internet pornographers were handed a victory and the opportunity to corrupt American youth with no fines or consequences.
In answer to the decision, America Needs Fatima is launching a new emergency campaign called Protect Kids from Porn. Starting in early September, the campaign has as its immediate goal the distribution of tens of thousands of protest flyers aimed toward protecting society’s most vulnerable members.
Each brochure has two petitions, one addressed to the Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist and the other to the Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert. Both petitions ask them to use the power of laws to stop pornographers from providing filth to children over the Internet.
The June 29 Supreme Court decision remanded COPA back to the court of original jurisdiction for a full trial on merits, but held it likely that the act would be overturned. The plaintiffs were represented by the American Civil Liberties Union. The hard-hitting act punishes on-line porn with fines of $50,000 per day and a six-month prison sentence.
"Unless we are successful in provoking a groundswell of prayer, outrage and effective action, I fear for the future of our country,” notes campaign director Mr. Robert E. Ritchie. “If the Supreme Court and our elected officials see that we do nothing when God’s children are attacked, they will continue to make decisions that lead to total sexual anarchy.”
To join in this important campaign and order your “Protect Kids from Porn” protest cards, visit www.tfp.org/anf
Here’s what you can do right now: 1. Distribute the Protect Kids from Porn protest flyers to people in your community, to alert those who also share our outrage, but who have done nothing because they feel they are alone, and have no one to fight with them. To order flyers, go to www.tfp.org/anf
Parents can free kids from online porn by being parents.
Under what enumerated power of Congress do they envision these laws being enacted?
The best, most efficient and most economical internet filters are mommy-filter 1.0 and daddy-filter 1.0. The worst is government-filter 1.0.
America Needs Fatima? I know all those words, but the phrase doesn't make sense.
America Needs Fatima is a campaign of a Catholic organization called the American TFP (Tradition, Family, Property). Its mission is to spread the message of the apparitions in Fatima in 1917.
Here is an article about the group. The author refers to them as a cult.
http://www.unitypublishing.com/NewReligiousMovements/FatimaCult.html
I just often wonder where these chilcren's parents are. You would THINK that children would be protected by mom and dad.
Guess not.
Who needs the government to be mommy and daddy? Guess the children do.
The parents are just too darn busy living and working in the Land of 1001 Excuses. Sooo, in walks mommy-government to make more unenforced and unpunished laws.
Folks, imho, NOTHING will work because the best protection comes from parents. If they abandon their children, for whichever of the 1001 excuses, the children are doomed.
Bingo.
You obviously don't live or work in the Land of 1001 Excuses.
Meanwhile, porn, like most everything else, tends to boil down to supply and demand. Since you can't eliminate the supply, you need to do what you can to eliminate the demand.
It works in my house.
BINGO redux.
That is true.. Parents should monitor what the kids are doing.. Not the Government.
investigate later
Boys and young men who are selected for membership in the group soon learn to have contempt for their parents while also plying them with requests for money to support the work of the group. By demanding celibacy of lay members, the group robs these parents of grandchildren and robs the Church of strong Catholic husbands and fathers and of the Catholic children they would have produced.
That couldn't be further from the truth. There are TFPers who go to my church, and they HARDLY have contempt for their parents. Also, the author makes the assumption that all of these men were called to married life, which is not necessarily true. The TFP have some weird views, but I wouldn't call them a cult at all.
How does a group spread a message that hasn't yet been opened? (I understand the third one is yet sealed.)
Fatima is a name of a town in Portugal where many Catholics believe Mary appeared to three shepherd children in 1917.
The basic message is well-known, which is the conversion of the world to the Catholic faith, so that a chastisement of the world by God can be avoided.
Sounds a bit presumptuous to this Episcopalian.
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