This is absurd. Evidently there is a huge demand for pay per view porn in hotel chains. Hotel chains make most of their money from repeat customers.
You want Marriot to go out of business? How does it help the anti-porn world if Marriot goes out of business and the other businesses, selling porn, take over Marriot’s hotels?
Why do you care so much anyway if some business traveler watches the porn?
Marriott also sells alcohol, coffee and tea! These are also proscribed by Mormons.
Rodney asks: “You want Marriot to go out of business? How does it help the anti-porn world if Marriot goes out of business and the other businesses, selling porn, take over Marriot’s hotels? Why do you care so much anyway if some business traveler watches the porn?”
In order...
1. No, we want Marriott to join Omni, Days Inn, and other hotel chains that refuse to profit from the sale of pornography and still somehow manage to stay in business.
2. If Marriott discovers — unlike Omni, Days Inn, etc. — that it can’t remain in business without selling porn, we’d prefer that Omni or Days Inn buy their properties.
3. Only a partial response:
* A University of Calgary Study reported: “The results are clear and consistent; exposure to pornographic material puts one at increased risk for developing sexually deviant tendencies, committing sexual offenses, experiencing difficulties in one’s intimate relationships, and accepting the rape myth.” http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2002/mar/02031203.html%20
* Law enforcement officials confirm these findings based on their prosecution of sex crimes against women and children. They report that pornography is a major motivating factor in the crime of rape and a startling 100 percent correlation between cases of child sexual abuse and the child molesters’ use of adult-oriented or child pornography.
* The United Nations Commission on Human Rights appropriately labels pornography “a form of violence against women that ‘glamorizes the degradation and maltreatment of women and asserts their subordinate function as mere receptacles for male lust’.” http://www.un.org:80/rights/dpi1772e.htm
Gov. Romney himself — in his recent Regent University commencement address — said pornographic and violent movies were responsible in part for the horrific violence that occurred at Virginia Tech. http://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2007/05/romneys_speech_at_regent.php
The Davis County Clipper, Bountiful, Utah, in March interviewed former California Lt. Gov. John Harmer, chairman of The Lighted Candle Society and author of the recent book “The Sex Industrial Complex.” According to the Clipper: “’Pornography creates a chemical addiction in the same way cigarettes and alcohol do,’ said Harmer. In his book, Harmer cites sources from the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the British National Addiction Centre to describe how dopamine, a key drug released by the brain during arousal, has the same effect as cocaine or speed and can create the same addictions in the brain. For children and teens, Harmer feels that the addiction could be even stronger and more damaging.” http://www.lightedcandlesociety.org/newsletters/LCS%20%20March%20Newsletter%20For%20Email%20Edition.htm
Shhh! Hyper-moralists are immune to the laws of supply and demand.
I agree. You would have to be deaf, dumb and blind not to know hotels of every stripe offers or atleast offered them.
And no, I didn’t watch any.
A hotel chain will go out of business if it doesn’t sell porn? ROFL
There is also a huge demand for on call prostitutes in hotel chains. Hotel chains make most of their money from repeat customers. I don't want them supplying hookers either.
I doubt the Marriot chain would go “out of business” without pay for view porn.
Romney has stayed at Marriots so of course he knew.
I think the porn goes nicely with the BOM in every room, maybe add a biography of Joe Smith and his many wives to go with it
Frigging Ridiculous!!!!
If Mitt Romney is going to put on the mantle of wholesome family guy, it seems fair to me to ask him if he was involved with any porn-related decision while on the board. If his actions suggest that he battled against the policy, his family-friendly credentials are strengthened. If he didn't try to stop the policy, Romney is open to a charge of hypocrisy which is better discovered now than in the general election (if he were to get the nomination).
I agree, this is much ado about nothing. The fact is that all hotels do this.
Yes, lets ask Mariott and the others to stop. I don’t like it either, but I guarantee you that we’re wasting our time on this sort of campaign.
And if you want to “demand answers” from Romney you’ll be shooting down a good candidate for no good reason.
The search for the perfect morally pure conservative will sink us....