“People commit sex crimes; Marriott does not commit sex crimes.”
No, Marriott just sells tens of millions of dollars’ worth of pornography, which law enforcement authorities say is a major motivating factor in sex crimes against women and children. And Marriott did so during Mitt Romney’s decade as a “hands on” member of the corporate board, during which he could have — if his conscience had so motivated him — made a motion that Marriott adopt the same corporate policy as that implemented by the owner of Omni Hotels, for example.
By his own campaign’s testimony, he did not make such a motion or in any other way object to his friend’s company making money from porn sales. Nor did he object to being compensated in part from the profits of porn sales.
You carry on and on about the evils of porn, Saundra, yet you adamantly reject holding the people who sell it responsible. The sellers of pornography also have agency. In Marriott’s case, with Mitt on the board of directors, they exercised their agency by choosing to be white-collar porn peddlers.
If Mitt believes porn flicks were a motivating factor in the VA Tech shootings, which is what he said during his commencement address at Regent University, why didn’t he try to stop the corp of which he was a director from selling the stuff?
Why does he not now, as a candidate for president, publicly call on Marriott and all other hotels to follow Omni and Days Inn’s example and stop selling the stuff?
Marriott made a choice. Mitt’s making choices. And pro-family activists are simply holding them accountable for those choices. And will, I assure you, continue to do so.
Is Mitt Romney responsible for every idiot who got drunk at Marriott’s bars and committed a sex crime or did something illegal? He knew they were selling booze at those hotels and yet he allowed it to continue. Do you think Mitt Romney should have demanded all the bars in Marriott hotels be shut down?
I just for the life of me cannot make sense of your reasoning.
In my very own home, we have Direct TV on which we have the BYU channel going right now as I type. Apparently, you can buy porn on Direct TV if you want to. We don’t want to. I think you can buy boxing which I hate with a passion because I think it’s violent and disgusting and I can’t stand watching people punch each other. I do not want to spend money to watch porn or boxing so I don’t.
The service in the Marriott is a pay-per-view thing, I guess, which creepy people use to view porn and boxing. You can also pay to watch R rated movies. My Church advises its members not to see R rated movies. Many people do not think R rated movies are pornographic.
I can’t understand how you figure Mitt Romney is responsible for what people pay to view. Your point apparently is that Mitt Romney should have demanded that the pay-per-view service not be available in Marriott hotels. I don’t understand you and you don’t understand me so I guess we’ll just have to agree to disagree and hopefully still remain FReeper friends.