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Old 03-08-2003, 09:43 AM  
Ken
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Colin,

With all due respect, their are huge differences in the two administrations with regard to adult material.

Clinton was in favor of legislation to protect children, which I think most of us agree with in principle. The real question here is how to most effectively protect children without stripping away the rights of adults.

Bush is interested in preventing consenting adults from viewing adult material from the privacy of their own homes, even AFTER they have proven they are over the age of consent. This would not be problematic if he limited the scope of "obscenity" to things that are truly "obscene" like rape, beasty, hardcore degradation, etc. However, this administration and previous republican administrations believe that all pornography is bad, which includes a man and a women having regular, every day sex.

Clinton was more interested in politics and what the people wanted. Most Americans want to protect their children, which is why he focused on laws that related to this issue and did not focus on obscenity prosecutions.

Bush is more interested in pushing his personal religious beliefs on this country, which includes anything he thinks is evil. That is scary.

Like you, I don't consider myself a democrat or a republican. Both Bush and Clinton have their strong points and their weak points.

However, when it comes to adult material, this is a black and white issue. Democrats are definitely more "friendly" to our industry and are much more likely to preserve the 1st amendment rights of adults to view material that others might not agree with. Too see into the future....just look to the past

The only encouraging fact is that while our government has become more conservative, people in general have become more liberal. There have been several "obscenity" cases tried in the last year or so in very conservative venues which were acquitted. This is good news and shows that although people might not want to see certain material themselves, they also don't want their rights and the rights of other adults stripped away......
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