Posted on 07/02/2007 4:17:47 PM PDT by AFA-Michigan
1. Do you believe the Marriott Corporation was and is wrong to sell and profit from the sale of hardcore pornographic material?
2. If so, what if any actions did you take during your decade as a member of the board of directors to stop the Marriott Corporation's distribution of hardcore pornographic videos? Did you at any time protest the company's sale of such harmful material? If you did not speak out or act to stop the corporation's sale of hardcore pornographic material, please explain how you justify having failed to do so.
3. The Brody File reports that you received $100,000 a year for your service as a member of the board. Please explain how you justify having personally profited in part from the Marriott Corporation's sale of hardcore pornographic material.
4. Do you own currently own stock in the Marriot Corporation? If so, please explain how you justify continuing to personally profit in part from the sale of hardcore pornographic material. If you currently continue to personally profit in part from the sale of hardcore pornographic material via any Marriott stock holdings, and if you believe such personal profit to be inconsistent with the "family values" theme of your presidential campaign, will you as a candidate for president publicly divest yourself of any Marriott stock holdings so as to no longer gain personal profit from the sale of hardcore pornography?
5. Do you feel morally obligated to return to the Marriot Corporation -- or better yet, donate to a charitable ministry such as The Lighted Candle Society that assists the victims of pornography and sex abuse -- whatever percentage of your compensation, if any, from your board service or stock holdings that is reasonably commensurate with the percentage of the company's overall revenues produced by its sale of hardcore pornographic material?
6. The Brody File cites an Associated Press report in April that as of three months ago, "longtime family friend J.W. Marriott...of Marriotts hotel empire (had) donated more than $80,000 to Romneys campaign." Given that some portion of the Marriotts' personal and corporate profits derive from the sale of hardcore pornographic material, do you feel morally obligated to return to Mr. Marriott whatever percentage of his substantial contributions to your presidential campaign might reasonably have resulted from porn profits?
7. Will you now, as a candidate for president, publicly urge the Marriott Corporation to end its multi-million-dollar annual sales of hardcore pornographic material because of the unconscionable impact such distribution has on families, women, and children?
8. Given your close personal, business, and political relationship with the Marriott Corporation and family, can the American people trust that a Romney Administration would nonetheless aggressively, faithfully, and impartially investigate and prosecute the illegal distribution of hardcore pornographic and obscene material -- including such illegal distribution, pro-family activists believe, by the Marriott Corporation and its franchise properties (as evidenced by two Cincinnati Marriott properties which in 2002 removed the chain-wide selection of porn videos under threat of criminal obscenity charges by local prosecutors)?
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This is absurd. Evidently there is a huge demand for pay per view porn in hotel chains. Hotel chains make most of their money from repeat customers.
You want Marriot to go out of business? How does it help the anti-porn world if Marriot goes out of business and the other businesses, selling porn, take over Marriot’s hotels?
Why do you care so much anyway if some business traveler watches the porn?
I think those are fair questions. We supposedly live in a nation with a majority claiming belief in Christ. I know that many at the highest levels of corporations are religious but some where along the line there is a disconnect with the way they run their businesses.
Asked to comment on the Marriott Hotel chain and porn sales, conservative Christian heartthrob Fred “The Tennesee Stud” said, “Porn? I don’t buy porn. I lived it in my playboy break between my first and second marriages.”
9. Do you own any stock in Disney?
The fact that these people think the softcore Skinemax crap on hotel pay-per-view is “hardcore” indicates they are sheltered from a even the most carefuly worded sexual Google search.
Marriott also sells alcohol, coffee and tea! These are also proscribed by Mormons.
Why would he care how he made his money?
He didn’t. He must have known if he is as smart as he believes he is. Mitt is creepy as well as a flip flopper.
Ridiculous.
Funny how elections bring out the loonies to pimp their causes on the coattails of the candidates.
Rodney asks: “You want Marriot to go out of business? How does it help the anti-porn world if Marriot goes out of business and the other businesses, selling porn, take over Marriots hotels? Why do you care so much anyway if some business traveler watches the porn?”
In order...
1. No, we want Marriott to join Omni, Days Inn, and other hotel chains that refuse to profit from the sale of pornography and still somehow manage to stay in business.
2. If Marriott discovers — unlike Omni, Days Inn, etc. — that it can’t remain in business without selling porn, we’d prefer that Omni or Days Inn buy their properties.
3. Only a partial response:
* A University of Calgary Study reported: “The results are clear and consistent; exposure to pornographic material puts one at increased risk for developing sexually deviant tendencies, committing sexual offenses, experiencing difficulties in one’s intimate relationships, and accepting the rape myth.” http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2002/mar/02031203.html%20
* Law enforcement officials confirm these findings based on their prosecution of sex crimes against women and children. They report that pornography is a major motivating factor in the crime of rape and a startling 100 percent correlation between cases of child sexual abuse and the child molesters’ use of adult-oriented or child pornography.
* The United Nations Commission on Human Rights appropriately labels pornography “a form of violence against women that ‘glamorizes the degradation and maltreatment of women and asserts their subordinate function as mere receptacles for male lust’.” http://www.un.org:80/rights/dpi1772e.htm
Gov. Romney himself — in his recent Regent University commencement address — said pornographic and violent movies were responsible in part for the horrific violence that occurred at Virginia Tech. http://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2007/05/romneys_speech_at_regent.php
The Davis County Clipper, Bountiful, Utah, in March interviewed former California Lt. Gov. John Harmer, chairman of The Lighted Candle Society and author of the recent book “The Sex Industrial Complex.” According to the Clipper: ’Pornography creates a chemical addiction in the same way cigarettes and alcohol do,’ said Harmer. In his book, Harmer cites sources from the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the British National Addiction Centre to describe how dopamine, a key drug released by the brain during arousal, has the same effect as cocaine or speed and can create the same addictions in the brain. For children and teens, Harmer feels that the addiction could be even stronger and more damaging.” http://www.lightedcandlesociety.org/newsletters/LCS%20%20March%20Newsletter%20For%20Email%20Edition.htm
Not if certain FReepers have their way.
This has gone beyond ridiculous.
That’s odd. You feel the need to attack Fred in a completely unrelated hit-piece on Romney.
1. No, we want Marriott to join Omni, Days Inn, and other hotel chains that refuse to profit from the sale of pornography and still somehow manage to stay in business.
I didn't know that, thanks.. and it makes your argument less "absurd" to me.
I agree this is really ridiculous.
How many hotels have bars that sell alcohol or even have mini bars in the rooms? How many hotels have gift shops that sell cigarettes and/or playboy’s? How many hotels allow smoking in their rooms, at least until the last few years? How many hotels sell condoms in vending machines?
All these are objectionable to certain folks.
Bogey defends Marriott’s porn sales by saying: “It’s not being forced on anybody and the last time I checked this is still a free country that espouses personal responsibility.”
Wonder how that defense would work for a drug dealer?
And for the record, the Omni and Days Inn chains, among others, refuse as a matter of corporate policy to sell porn.
I have a mutual fund that owns Marriott stock....I am therefore guilty by this association also....How dumb can we get folks?
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