Pornography
2/5/2009 | Abortion, God and Government, Pornography
The Associated Press
Christian conservatives are challenging President Barack Obama's picks for top Justice Department positions, charging that past clients like Playboy taint their resumes.
The criticism comes ahead of a Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing Thursday for David Ogden, Obama's pick for deputy attorney general, the No. 2 position at the Justice Department.
..."Ogden has been an activist in the support of a right to pornography, a right of abortion and the rights of homosexuals," said Patrick Trueman, a former Justice Department official during the first Bush presidency who is now in private practice.
"It isn't so much that he's represented pornographers or that he's been a porn attorney, but it's his world view, and his world view reflects President Obama's world view," said Trueman, echoing criticism from conservative activist groups like the American Family Association and Focus on the Family.
Besides Ogden, conservatives also have taken aim at two other Justice picks _ Indiana University professor Dawn Johnsen for her association with an abortion rights group, and Thomas Perrelli, who represented the husband of Terry Schiavo, the brain-damaged woman at the center of a right-to-die case that energized evangelical groups across the country.
Tom Minnery, a vice president at Focus on the Family, charges that through the nominations, the new Democratic administration is not depoliticizing, but re-politicizing the Justice Department.
"They take our breath away the more we learn about these people," said Minnery. "This is left-wing politicization of the Justice Department. This is not a Justice Department that looks like America."
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Georgette Forney, Co-Founder, Silent No More
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2/5/2009 | Pornography, God and Government, Abortion
The Associated Press
Christian conservatives are challenging President Barack Obama's picks for top Justice Department positions, charging that past clients like Playboy taint their resumes.
The criticism comes ahead of a Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing Thursday for David Ogden, Obama's pick for deputy attorney general, the No. 2 position at the Justice Department.
..."Ogden has been an activist in the support of a right to pornography, a right of abortion and the rights of homosexuals," said Patrick Trueman, a former Justice Department official during the first Bush presidency who is now in private practice.
"It isn't so much that he's represented pornographers or that he's been a porn attorney, but it's his world view, and his world view reflects President Obama's world view," said Trueman, echoing criticism from conservative activist groups like the American Family Association and Focus on the Family.
Besides Ogden, conservatives also have taken aim at two other Justice picks _ Indiana University professor Dawn Johnsen for her association with an abortion rights group, and Thomas Perrelli, who represented the husband of Terry Schiavo... Tom Minnery, a vice president at Focus on the Family, charges that through the nominations, the new Democratic administration is not depoliticizing, but re-politicizing the Justice Department.
"They take our breath away the more we learn about these people," said Minnery. "This is left-wing politicization of the Justice Department. This is not a Justice Department that looks like America."
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Len Deo, President, New Jersey Family Policy Council
William Devlin, National President, Redeem The Vote
Jessica Echard, Executive Director, Eagle Forum
Tim G. Echols, President/Founder, TeenPact
Georgette Forney, Co-Founder, Silent No More
Dr. Janice Hollis, Bishop, Progressive Believers Ministries
Bishop Harry R. Jackson, Senior Pastor, Hope Christian Church
Peter Lillback, President, Westminster Theological Seminary
Alex McFarland, President, Southern Evangelical Seminary
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Phyllis Schlafly, President and Founder, Eagle Forum
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6/20/2008 | Character and Ethics, Gender Issues, Homosexuality, Human Sexuality, Pornography, Pro-Family
Cape Cod Times
PROVINCETOWN — It's a slow week in the northern territory of the Cape Cod National Seashore when a man with a yellow towel flashing passers-by is the sole complaint about public sex acts.
In the past decade, the number of complaints about explicit, open public sex in the Provincetown and Truro portions of the national park has more than tripled, Seashore acting chief ranger Craig Thatcher said. The activity ranges from flashing to masturbation to men's outdoor orgies, he said
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Joseph Farah, CEO, Founder, WorldNetDaily
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Rick Green, President, Torch of Freedom Foundation
Colin Hanna, Colin Hanna, President, Let Freedom Ring
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1/29/2008 | Freedom of Speech, Pornography, Pro-Family
DailyPress.Com
WILLIAMSBURG - College of William and Mary President Gene Nichol gave students the go-ahead this morning to hold the controversial Sex Workers' Art Show on campus next month.
In a statement, Nichol said he tried to work with students to hold the event at a venue off the Williamsburg campus.
Students were unable to find an off-campus venue, however, and Nichol said the First Amendment and "defining traditions of openness that sustain universities" required he permit the show be held at the college.
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Tom DeLay, Former House Majority Leader, United States House of Representatives
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Jessica Echard, Executive Director, Eagle Forum
Tim G. Echols, President/Founder, TeenPact
Steve Elliott, President, Grassfire.org
Joseph Farah, CEO, Founder, WorldNetDaily
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James Gelfand, Senior Manager of Health Policy, U.S. Chamber of Commerce
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Tony Strickland, Taxpayer Advocate
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Lorianne Updike, President & Executive Director, The Constitutional Sources Project
Timothy Watkins, Producer/Director, Renegade Productions
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1/25/2008 | Child Abuse, Pornography, Pro-Family
OrlandoSentinel.Com
ALLENTOWN, Pa. - Police faced a difficult if not impossible task Thursday as they tried to stop the spread of pornographic video and photos of two high school girls, images that were transmitted by cell phone to dozens of the girls' classmates and then to the wider world.
District Attorney James B. Martin said at least 40 Parkland High School students believed to have received the images would not face prosecution as long as they show their phones to police by Tuesday to ensure the images have been erased.
But students at the school said the distribution was far more widespread.
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1/24/2008 | Pornography, Pro-Family
WTOPNews.Com
WASHINGTON - Now that 41 District workers have been fired or suspended after visiting pornographic Web sites on government computers the city is cranking up the technology to keep an eye on all government computers.
"We have a system for tracking people's use and re-directing people's computers away from those sites, to get people back to work, serving the citizens of the District of Columbia," says D.C. City Administrator Dan Tangherlini.
Before its investigation, D.C. could track 10,000 computers. Now the city can monitor 30,000.
"Content will be filtered. Those sites will be blocked and re-directed to our policy of appropriate use," says Chief Technology Officer Vivek Kundra.
Rather than just have a policy on paper, every time a city worker logs in on a city computer, he'll see a warning about inappropriate computer use.
The District fired nine employees and suspended 32 employees during its investigation. The fired employees include men and women, but officials would not say how many.
D.C. officials are continuing their investigation and say more employees may be fired or suspended.
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8/9/2007 | Pro-Family, Pornography
The Nation's Largest Provider of Hotel Hardcore Pornography
Sioux Falls, SD - On August 9, Citizens for Community Values (CCV), in conjunction with and at the request of South Dakota Family Policy Council (SDFPC), will hold a press conference in Sioux Falls, South Dakota to expose the Sioux Falls-based LodgeNet Entertainment Corporation as a major provider of prosecutable hardcore pornography. The press conference will begin at 10:30am at Shriver's Square, 230 S. Phillips Avenue in Sioux Falls.
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Len Deo, President, New Jersey Family Policy Council
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Joseph Farah, CEO, Founder, WorldNetDaily
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Rick Green, President, Torch of Freedom Foundation
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7/19/2007 | Child Abuse, Pornography
New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/19/us/19sex.html?ex=1342497600&en=d4261d44378419aa&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
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4/6/2007 | Pornography
CNN
MORTON, Illinois (CNN) -- At 8 o'clock on a recent Saturday morning, more than 250 men gathered at New Life Christian Church in Morton, Illinois, for a breakfast of porn and pancakes.
The event, not as titillating as it sounds, is the brainchild of Craig Gross, founder of the online Christian ministry, XXXChurch.com. Gross concocted the idea of "Porn & Pancakes" as a way to get Christians and church officials to talk about pornography addiction.
It's a problem, he said, that is growing, among Christian communitiy
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4/4/2007 | Pro-Family, Pornography
Daily Herald
Conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly is giving her support to two Northwest Suburban High School District 214 board candidates, adding fuel to the fire in an already heated race.
In letters mailed to local members of her Alton-based Eagle Forum political action committee — which supports what it calls “pro-family” candidates — Schlafly endorses challengers Ken Frizane and Dennis Konczyk, pointing out that one is a church youth group leader and the other a church elder.
The letter criticizes incumbent candidates Bill Dussling, Alva Kreutzer and Bob Zimmanck for their support of what she calls “pornographic” books at the heart of a curriculum debate last spring — and what she considers a lax approach to staff conduct in the aftermath of the conviction of former teacher Jason Krigas on sex abuse charges last year.
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3/22/2007 | Pro-Family, Pornography
Life Site
PHILADELPHIA, March 22, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A US district court judge stuck down a 1998 law passed by Congress against Internet pornography that made it a crime for commercial website operators to let children under 18 view pornographic materials.
Senior U.S. District Judge Lowell Reed Jr., who presided over the four-week trial last fall, ruled in favor of the American Civil Liberties Union that the 1998 Child Online Protection Act (COPA) violated a constitutional right to free speech
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