Posted on 11/06/2007 4:32:33 PM PST by mngran2
Dozens of anti-pornography groups asked the U.S. Congress to force the Pentagon to keep sexually related material from being sold in military stores.
Pornographic material was banned from being sold in military establishments nearly 10 years ago, but Christian group American Family Association claimed that adult fare, including Penthouse and Playboy material, is still being sold in the stores, USA Today reported Monday.
The Pentagon deemed those materials aren't explicit enough to pull from its stores.
"They're saying 'we're not selling stuff that's sexually explicit' -- and we say it's pornography," Donald Wildmon, head of the American Family Association, told USA Today.
A letter-writing campaign launched Friday aimed to convince Congress to "get the Pentagon to obey the law," he added.
The Military Honor and Decency Act of 1996 is supposed to bar "sexually explicit material" from being sold in stores on military bases, the newspaper said. It defines porn as "the dominant theme of which depicts or describes nudity" or sexual activities "in a lascivious way."
Has the military become politically correct as well?
More than you will ever know....
I think there is an inherent contradiction in the Wildmon type of Christians: Does a soldier really have to be 'washed in the blood of the lamb' to close with and kill our enemies in ground combat?
Legendary radio host Jim White of KMOX in St. Louis used to say: “Oh Lord,save us from the Good People”.
Hardly. These puritans heads would explode if they knew that the men and women who protect their ass enjoy the same freedoms they do. The base pharmacy dispenses birth control pills/devices, condoms, and even viagra. But I guess it makes more sense to go after magazines that every adult American can buy. I believe our GI's should enjoy the same freedoms of the Americans they take an oath to protect and defend. To deny them the freedoms civilians enjoy is un-American.
The people who are all against this never did a 6 month sea deployment, I’d wager.
You want to do something for the soldiers and sailors? Forget the cookies and greeting cards, send them your porno. Don’t lie, I know you’ve got it. Put your smut collection toward a good cause.
No dilemma at all. Porn should be sold in every store. Just keep it behind the counter to keep kids from browsing at the news rack.
Pork rinds can be a hazardous addiction too, but I’ll be damned if I’ll tell other people that they can’t eat them.
Put the government in charge of controlling lust, and gluttony won’t be far behind.
Okay, so let’s give them tanks to drive, but let’s not trust them to make choice with respect to porn.
And, oh by the way, isn’t enough of their lives regulated?
I say that both the left AND the right stop using the military as a social petrie dish.
We’d win more wars faster, with less trouble, and happier soldiers.
That’s the funniest thing I’ve seen all day...
Ain't that the truth!!! Porn magazines on a ship at sea are worth their weight in gold! We've often joked about when receiving these "care packages" how we just wished someone would send us a subscription to Hustler instead.
However we can punish military people for their Christian faith:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,360424,00.html
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,360004,00.html
A little problem there, methinks... get rid of faith and make sure we’re well supplied with porn. Great. So they really DO want our men in uniform to be nothing but trained killers with animal instincts.
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