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GOP platform calls for crackdown on ‘all forms’ of pornography
Daily Caller ^ | August 27, 2012 | Steven Nelson

Posted on 08/27/2012 2:00:06 PM PDT by JerseyanExile

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To: soycd
expecting the mother to die to save an unborn child

No one in government says this. Not even Henry Hyde said this. No one. The phrase "the mother's health" is an infinitely expandable rubric, and that is why pro-lifers do not like it much. I've never heard anyone in government say that a mother must die or even risk dying to save the baby's life. I don't where you got this from.

61 posted on 08/27/2012 3:02:40 PM PDT by firebrand
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To: donna

Traditional values used to include society enforcing it’s rules through shame and ridicule rather than always expecting the police to do it. So long as everybody involved in the creation and distribution of the porn is a consenting adult it’s really none of the government’s business, they should stay out of it.


62 posted on 08/27/2012 3:10:58 PM PDT by discostu (Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends.)
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To: JerseyanExile

The GOP needs to focus on the economy (period).
Most people don’t care about pornography (until you take it away from them).
Any liberal who has decided not to vote will come out if he feels his porno is threatened.


63 posted on 08/27/2012 3:13:21 PM PDT by BuffaloJack (The First Amendment is a large caliber weapon. USE IT !!!)
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To: donna
"Republicans have always had traditional values. "

Fortunately, traditional values do not trump rights.

Having "traditional values" (or any set of values) means you teach your children well and hold them to a particular set of standards. It does not mean you get to dictate to those who do not share your values, nor to dictate which rights get to be enforced for whom, a mistake most politicians make.

Whether or not I like pornography, and I do not, it is not my place to tell other consenting adults what they can do in the privacy of their homes, nor what occupation they can hold. In that regard, I simply vote with my wallet, a pastime more adults need to learn.

64 posted on 08/27/2012 3:15:47 PM PDT by ronnyquest (I spent 20 years in the Army fighting the enemies of freedom only to see marxism elected at home.)
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To: Billthedrill
"encourage" = "caution"

Fight illiteracy - zot BtD. (sob!)

65 posted on 08/27/2012 3:16:10 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: spel_grammer_an_punct_polise

The lefties want to restrict economic liberty, our socons want to restrict personal liberty. But I like the idea of keeping them occupied with a shiny object so they leave the rest of us alone. So let the prudish busybodies have their little plank. Then after the convention we can all forget about it and go back to our free country.


66 posted on 08/27/2012 3:29:12 PM PDT by ynnug
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To: JerseyanExile

Ah, the party’s own version if Islamists rear their ugly head.


68 posted on 08/27/2012 3:30:11 PM PDT by Free Vulcan (Election 2012 - America stands or falls. No more excuses. Get involved.)
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To: JerseyanExile
I am a bit surprised and saddened at some of the responses I've seen so far from my fellow conservatives. Pornography is a cancer to our moral structure and part of the massive downhill slide our country has endured for the last several decades. As a father of two daughters, the last thing on Earth I would want for them is to be used by the "porn industry" and watched in that degradation by a bunch of pervert losers who would rather play with themselves than find and marry a good woman

We either stand for morality and the protection of our children or we are exactly like the scumbags who are wrecking our country in the pursuit of "progressivism".

69 posted on 08/27/2012 3:31:45 PM PDT by Chainmail (Warfare is too serious to be left to the amateurs)
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To: JerseyanExile

Matthew 5:27-28
King James Version (KJV)

27 Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery:

28 But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.

********************

Just when you think conservatives will be glad the republicans MIGHT do something they might agree on, it’s still not good. I thought it was the democrats that were all about sex, sex, and more sex, now I see that isn’t so. It will be funny when some come face to face with Jesus and try to explain why they were upset about porn being taken away. I see civil law trumps Gods law for some.


70 posted on 08/27/2012 3:34:02 PM PDT by mardi59
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To: JerseyanExile

it is the kind of thing leftists who write the “news” want to focus on


71 posted on 08/27/2012 3:35:17 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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To: JerseyanExile

Oh, no!! What about clown porn /s

(I found out a few weeks ago that there really is such a thing as clown porn. I thought it was a joke, but it’s not. What a sad world we live in)


72 posted on 08/27/2012 3:36:03 PM PDT by KosmicKitty (WARNING: Hormonally crazed woman ahead!!)
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To: School of Rational Thought

party platforms cover many many many topics


73 posted on 08/27/2012 3:36:23 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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To: donna; Tolerance Sucks Rocks
That was a riposte and your only truly honest reaction should have been Touché!
Just so you know ... ;-)
75 posted on 08/27/2012 4:00:17 PM PDT by Tunehead54 (Nothing funny here ;-)
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To: JerseyanExile

unreal. Trading one set of tyrants for another.

Talk about depressing.


76 posted on 08/27/2012 4:02:33 PM PDT by GlockThe Vote (The Obama Adminstration: 2nd wave of attacks on America after 9/11)
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To: JerseyanExile

unreal. Trading one set of tyrants for another.

Talk about depressing.


77 posted on 08/27/2012 4:04:07 PM PDT by GlockThe Vote (The Obama Adminstration: 2nd wave of attacks on America after 9/11)
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To: ynnug

“Then after the convention we can all forget about it and go back to our free country.”

Amen!


78 posted on 08/27/2012 4:07:29 PM PDT by spel_grammer_an_punct_polise (I wanna start a Seniors' Motor Scooter Gang. Wanna join?)
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To: spel_grammer_an_punct_polise

I’ll give you my porn when you pry it from my hot, dead hands! /s
Seriously, why talk about this now?
We can defeat zero on the economy, and I predict we will.
But, if we don’t focus on that and only that, we may lose the election.
BTW porn is not illegal per se (at least that involving adults); obscenity is, however, not protected by the First Amendment.
Once again, channeling Akin, the GOP is stupid.


79 posted on 08/27/2012 4:30:18 PM PDT by BIV (typical white person)
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To: Tunehead54

Yeah, porn and molesting children is so amusing. You should run for president.


80 posted on 08/27/2012 4:42:11 PM PDT by donna (This is what happens when America is no longer a Christian nation.)
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