Posted on 07/02/2007 4:17:47 PM PDT by AFA-Michigan
Very well stated. I’ve been a solid Fred supporter since I first learned he was entertaining the thougt of running, but this specious, vapid attack on Mitt is the most pathetic peice of crap I’ve seen against any candidate this election cycle.
Religious bigotry dressed up in press releases from a pseudo-religious money raking machine (CBN)
change the subject since the man in question is a christian.........are there wet bars in the room......just a vice choice..........
Yes, but for some reason, sexual sin- even when done in private between consenting adults- is worse than any other sin in the eyes of some.
Here, bub, to refresh your memory:
http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2002/08/29/loc_two_more_hotels_pull.html
Triple E writes: “What you’ve stated is already illegal. Child porn is illegal, as well as it should. None of your business if adults want to watch other adults have sex.”
In fact, the SALE of some pornography — that which meets the legal definition of “obscenity” — is a federal offense.
Whether it’s “my business” or not, it’s illegal.
Ask the two Marriotts in Cincinnati (see Cincy Enquirer link above).
This is the lamest article I've seen by a Christian organization. If they were really concerned about morals, make all the hotels/motels stop serving alcohol and have their guests prove that they are husband and wife.
“You forgot to determine whether he was aware. But it’s clear by your agenda that isn’t important to you.”
Gee Larry, I actually wrote a prominent Romney blogger, who works for an anti-porn group, to ask if Romney was aware. The Romney campaign itself responded, claiming that he wasn’t aware that the corp for which he shared collective policy-making authority was selling $30 mil a year in X-rated porn flicks.
Problem is, this is the same guy who said he was “always for life”...after spending a few decades promoting abortion on demand.
And stuck his finger in the air and decided to support a Marriage Protection Amendment, after pubicly opposing the amendment when running for governor.
Who claimed to be a “life member” of the NRA (since last August, that is).
Etc., etc.,
My problem isn’t what Mitt knows; it’s that I don’t trust his word for what he does or doesn’t know. And since Bill Marriott himself wrote a letter defending the corp’s porn sales, it’s hard to believe that a “hands on” member of the board for nearly a decade wasn’t aware.
“Mind your own business, you damnable Bible thumping busybodies.”
Try winning an election without us, CC.
Triple E: “Romney should have donned his cape and flew into every hotel room and turned off the TVs.”
Actually, would have been a lot simpler than that. All he’d have had to do is sit in the Marriott Corp. board room, open his mouth, exhale while vibrating his vocal cords, and make a motion that Marriott Hotels join Omni and Days Inn and others in adopting a corporate policy not to sell addictive material known to be a causative factor in sex crimes against women and children.
Tickle, you identify yourself as a “Catholic for Mitt,” using your church affiliation to lend credibility to your support for Romney, then you protest my citing the Catholic Church Catechism statement that “civil authorities should prevent the production and distribution of pornographic material”? http://www.vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/archive/catechism/p3s2c2a6.htm
Does the term cafeteria come to mind?
Then you absurdly ask: “Would you prefer we break down people’s doors, monitor their lifestyles and jail them for anything contrary to your personal interpretation of religion?”
Easy answer: no.
But social conservatives do believe that Marriott and other white-collar porn peddlers should be held accountable publicly for their sale of porn and prosecuted in instances in which what they sell meets the legal definition of obscenity (which is a federal crime regardless of the age of the user).
And we believe that a guy who sits on the board of a white-collar porn peddler for a decade and never says a word about it, then says porn flicks were responsible for the VA Tech shootings, should also be held accountable publicly.
And neither even remotely approaches your resort to the hackneyed “Taliban” and “communist” labels in a feeble attempt at demonization.
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I heard that sometimes they even let un-married couples share a room....
Canticle, you say you’re “100% sure the subject (of pornography) never came up (in a Marriott board meeting).”
Utilizing your amazing psychic powers, how do you explain the fact that the issue was obviously of sufficient concern that Bill Marriott himself — while Romney was a board member — wrote a letter defending the company’s sale of porn?
Ya think that happened with no discussion, no thought whatsoever, among board members?
And that contract with On Command by which they contributed free TVs to Marriott in return for the porn sales, ya think they might have run that little multi-gazillion dollar document by the board legally responsible for corp. finances?
“Try winning an election without us, CC.”
Brilliant. Try winning an election without the middle. Try winning an election without the moderate conservatives. In short, try winning without any group. You need all cylinders working to win an election and too often folks get so caught up in their own little world to recognize the truth. You can educate and try to change attitudes but there is a fine line before you begin to alienate voters. I’m not suggesting or promoting RINO’s in any fashion or in compromising your beliefs and morals but we are composed of many interests and your statement is simplistic at best. At the end of the day I fear the morality police and in the end someone always wants to define and impose their own brand. Not for me, thanks.
If the Southern Baptists ever had their way, that is what would happen.
That’s the kind of America that Judge Moore wanted, thankfully, his political career seems to be on life support at this point, but his threat remains ever present.
So that means all the bazillion porn websites, adult bookstores, and the Maxim/Stuff magazines sold in gas stations are illegal too, because they're definetly much more accessible and hard-core than the hotel stuff.
Well, have fun on your crusade.
“A hotel chain will go out of business if it doesn’t sell porn? Uh, yes. The hotel industry is a very competitive business...”
Rodney, you need to explain how Omni and Days Inn and other hotel chains that prohibit porn videos stay in business.
Wonder how that defense would work for a drug dealer?
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Drugs: illegal.
Porn: constitutionally protected free speech...whether you like it or not.
So why not ask Mitt what he thinks of the Bill of Rights instead?
It was YOU guys who partly caused the GOP to lose last year, ramming in online bans on gambling and preaching your morality while hypocrites in the GOP did otherwise.
Just cut my taxes and leave me alone, OK?
You still don't get it. Hotels aren't forcing anyone to look at anything objective.
Sam Brownback, is that you?
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