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Conservatives try to curtail hotel porn
AP via Yahoo! News ^ | August 22, 2006 | DAVID CRARY

Posted on 08/22/2006 12:04:00 PM PDT by King of Florida

NEW YORK - Pornographic movies now seem nearly as pervasive in America's hotel rooms as tiny shampoo bottles, and the lodging industry shows little concern as conservative activists rev up a protest campaign aimed at triggering a federal crackdown.

A coalition of 13 conservative groups — including the Family Research Council and Concerned Women for America — took out full-page ads in some editions of USA Today earlier this month urging the Justice Department and FBI to investigate whether some of the pay-per-view movies widely available in hotels violate federal and state obscenity laws.

The coalition also is trying to draw attention to CleanHotels.com, a directory of hotels and motels nationwide that pledge to exclude adult offerings from their in-room entertainment service.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: adultmovies; churchlady; cwa; frc; harridans; hotels; mrsgrundy; nannies; obscenity; porn; puritans; toomuchfreetime
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To: Perdogg

"If you don't want it, don't order it."

My thoughts exactly!


21 posted on 08/22/2006 12:15:42 PM PDT by mr_hammer (They have eyes, but do not see . . .)
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To: Perdogg

Bingo.
It's not like you can order it by accident.

You need to hit "ENTER", "*" , right arrow TWO TIMES, "SELECT", down arrow, and "ENTER".

Or so I've heard.


22 posted on 08/22/2006 12:15:43 PM PDT by SJSAMPLE
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To: King of Florida

Don Quixote rides again.


23 posted on 08/22/2006 12:16:11 PM PDT by A Balrog of Morgoth (With fire, sword, and stinging whip I drive the RINOs in terror before me.)
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To: VRWCmember
I agree that seeking to have the government intervene is misguided.

Stage a boycott if they find it to be important.

The American Library Association and public libraries need to be challenged (as they are accountable to the taxpaying public).

The ALA (and therefore virtually all libraries) holds the position that there is no such concept as "age appropriate material". The ALA won't restrict what materials go into the library and won't restrict access to any materials.

So if a library has an archive of Playboy (for the interviews, including those with President Jimmy Carter, or cultural and sociological studies), the ALA holds that minors should be given access even though it would be criminal for a newsstand to offer that same access.
24 posted on 08/22/2006 12:16:20 PM PDT by weegee (Remember "Remember the Maine"? Well in the current war "Remember the Baby Milk Factory")
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To: Perdogg
If you don't want it, don't order it.

While I agree with you where adults are concerned, unfortunately young people can rent a room and watch it, and that is the biggest problem that I can see.

25 posted on 08/22/2006 12:16:37 PM PDT by NRA2BFree (PEOPLE WHO FOLLOW ISLAM ARE KORANIMALS!)
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To: King of Florida
Both Kathy Shepard of Hilton and Roger Conner of Marriott said the bulk of their hotels are operated by franchise-holders who make their own decisions about in-room programming. They made clear, however, that their companies consider adult movies to be an acceptable option

So Marriott has gone smoke free, including it's subsidiaries, finds porn more acceptable than smoking. Also, these "franchise-holders" are free to make their own decisions about porn, but not about whether to provide smoking rooms. Hmmmm.....

26 posted on 08/22/2006 12:16:38 PM PDT by PistolPaknMama (Al-Queda can recruit on college campuses but the US military can't! --FReeper airborne)
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To: Perdogg

Same as, "If you don't like abortion, don't have one." Hmmm.


27 posted on 08/22/2006 12:16:39 PM PDT by rabidralph
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To: King of Florida
" The leader of the campaign against in-room porn is Phil Burress, a self-described former porn addict who heads the Cincinnati-based Citizens for Community Values. "

Just as I thought, its like smoking and alcohol.

One guy can't handle it so he becomes as addicted to eliminating it as he was to it.

Instead of just learning to live and make responsible choices in a world of temptation like the rest of us do.

28 posted on 08/22/2006 12:16:45 PM PDT by Kakaze (Exterminate Islamofacism and Apologise for nothing.....except not doing it sooner!)
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To: King of Florida

I don't get it. Don't you have to specifically ask and pay for the porn? I got to file this under my "Stupid Conservative Tricks".


29 posted on 08/22/2006 12:16:50 PM PDT by Paradox (The "smarter" the individual, the greater his power of self-deception.)
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To: Perdogg

I really would like them to have to POST their porno services, as I would LOVE to avoid those places and the people who frequent them. They put warning labels on cigarettes? Pornography has destroyed a lot of beautiful couples, and hurt juveniles, marring their futures. I haven't met a Registered Sex offender yet that didn't have big time trouble being addicted to pornography.


30 posted on 08/22/2006 12:17:03 PM PDT by rovenstinez
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To: Lazamataz

You are evil. :)


31 posted on 08/22/2006 12:17:19 PM PDT by A Balrog of Morgoth (With fire, sword, and stinging whip I drive the RINOs in terror before me.)
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To: King of Florida
Providing porn to hotel rooms is a matter of NATIONAL SECURITY! That's right... I'm not making this up. We need Federal legislation requiring that porn be available in every hotel room in America. "Why?" you ask? "Why?"?!? Isn't it obvious?!? You monitor the rooms of Muslim men between the ages of 17 and 45 for their viewing habits, room service orders, and water usage. Those who watch a bunch of porn, order booze by the gallon, and waste an acre-foot of water grooming are your next suicide bombers, of course!! (And after they check out, a towel count is necessary to complete the picture. If a washcloth is missing, then that's your man. They have a habit of wrapping up their Habib Thomas before rushing off to explode.)
32 posted on 08/22/2006 12:17:37 PM PDT by Redcloak (Speak softly and wear a loud shirt.)
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To: SJSAMPLE

hahaha....


33 posted on 08/22/2006 12:17:55 PM PDT by dakine
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To: King of Florida

My wife and I flip through the menu and find the most outrageous title we can. Then we improvise what we imagine to be a scene from said title. Lots of laughs and lots of fun, and no $9.95 charge.

I keep meaning to put some wakka-wakka music on the laptop to enhance the experience.


34 posted on 08/22/2006 12:18:10 PM PDT by Snake65 (Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace-- but there is no peace. The war is actually begun!)
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To: rabidralph
"Same as, "If you don't like abortion, don't have one."

Except nobody dies. And the hyperbole award goes to....
35 posted on 08/22/2006 12:18:14 PM PDT by ndt
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To: King of Florida

Geez, let people watch what they want to watch and stop asking for the state to be everyone's nanny.


36 posted on 08/22/2006 12:18:23 PM PDT by thoughtomator (There is no "Islamofascism" - there is only Islam)
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To: Tatze
That is what we are fighting in the war on terrorism.

While I agree with you that trying to force people to be moral (or at least honest) is a bad idea, what we are fighting in the war on terrorism is the tendency to kill or maim innocent women and children in large numbers.

They are NOT the same thing. The effort to equate terrorism with sincere religious belief, even misguided religious belief, is wrong.

Shalom.

37 posted on 08/22/2006 12:18:25 PM PDT by ArGee (The Ring must not be allowed to fall into Hillary's hands!)
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To: rabidralph
Same as, "If you don't like abortion, don't have one." Hmmm

Hmmm, not at all.

Comparing sweaty palms to dead babies is just a bit of a stretch.
38 posted on 08/22/2006 12:19:12 PM PDT by A Balrog of Morgoth (With fire, sword, and stinging whip I drive the RINOs in terror before me.)
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To: Perdogg

Agreed! If you dont like the hotel dont stay there,if you dont like porn..don't order it


39 posted on 08/22/2006 12:19:27 PM PDT by StoneColdTaxHater
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To: King of Florida

Yes, because it's not enough that they don't watch porn. They must make sure that nobody else watches it either. Stupid waste of time from a bunch of busybody pecksniffs.


40 posted on 08/22/2006 12:19:43 PM PDT by Stone Mountain
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