The Political Freakshow

Hide Your Porn: GOP Platform Includes Strict Promises on Getting Rid of All Pornography

Republicans are taking a stiff stance on the dissemination of porn in America, a move that’s sure to arouse parts of their Christian conservative base.

Republican officials included language in this year’s convention platform calling for tighter controls on the distribution of pornography, a decision that thrilled anti-porn activists.

“A change in the Republican Party Platform to target illegal adult pornography is an exceedingly positive development that will protect children, as well as families from the scourge of hardcore pornography,” Morality in Media president Patrick Trueman said in a release Monday.

“Most children in America have free access to obscene pornography as soon as they learn how to use a computer. The average age of first exposure to obscene Internet pornography is now eleven,” Trueman said.

The new provisions are a stronger version of previous platforms, which opposed only child pornography.

According to MiM’s release, the new language now says “current laws on all forms of pornography and obscenity need to be vigorously enforced.”

So let me guess, they want to take porn away from the general population, but they can still be able to put sex ads on Craigslist for sex solicitation before the Republican National Convention in Tampa? Hypocritical, methinks.