Resty, the Marriotts can contractually require anything they want of franchisees in return for use of the name “Marriott” on the building.
They can require that onsite restaurants and pools meet all legally-proscribed health and safety standards.
They can require that rooms be kept clean and sanitary.
They can require that franchisees not operate prostitution services from the front desk, even in Nevada where it might be legal to do so.
And if they chose, they could require that in-room movie services in hotels that have the name “Marriott” on the outside not be selling hardcore X-rated pornography and obscenity on the outside.
Instead, Marriott negotiated a system-wide bulk rate contract with “On Command” — which is not the same thing as “on demand” — to knowingly sell and profit from porn.
Prominent LDS Church member John Harmer of Salt Lake City, former California Lt. Gov. and now chairman of a SLC-based anti-porn group The Lighted Candle Society, says it’s wrong for Marriott and other hotels to sell porn.
Since you disagree with prominent church member John Harmer, does that make you “anti-Mormon”? Just checking...
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And if they chose, they could require that in-room movie services in hotels that have the name “Marriott” on the outside not be selling hardcore X-rated pornography and obscenity on the INSIDE.
None of us who are LDS have to check our free will at the door that is a template you conjured up!
I don’t feel J. Marriott, nor is Mitt responsible no matter how much you would enjoy holding them to your assumptions.