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Originally Posted by kristin
First of all ... SIMPLE STATS PEOPLE!! Only 1000 people were polled and it doesn't say what part of the country they were polled. Get a good sample number please.
Ask anyone if they support "obsenity" and they will probably say no. Not many want to see simulated rape, animal sex, etc. Now ask those same 1000 people if they want to see porn, you'll get different answers. There is a lot of gray area with this and the gov't is going to try to lump porn into obsenity.
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Here in our local town (pop. 30k) - we have a quasi-religious group known as the Women's Auxiliary...and quite often they set up a petition booth outside a major grocery store to solicit signups from people "against child porn".
That's all fine and dandy. But when you read through the literature they dispense, you quickly realize they've lumped ALL pornography in with child porn.
So they take these huge petitions to the federal government claiming they represent this great multitude of people who want to see pornography of all kinds made illegal.
Its an intentional misrepresentation on their part. They know they'd get very few petition signers if it was only against pornography. So they promote and exploit it from the child porn angle and dramatically increase their signups.
I've stopped at their booth a few times in recent years...and had more than one confrontation with several of them. Most people who stop to sign don't bother reading the literature before putting pen to paper. They see the big sign "FIGHT CHILD PORNOGRAPHY" and rush to do what they consider to be the right thing.
From what I understand, this happens in a LOT of communities these days. They can't win their war against the adult entertainment industry, so they're forced to skew and falsify their campaigns against us.