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Rick, If You're Against Porn, Don't Watch It

Posted: 03/20/2012 5:31 pm

In a TV interview on Sunday, Rick Santorum said that if he is elected President, he will file criminal charges against the distribution of pornography. Santorum specifically referred to “exposure on the Internet,” so presumably he would censor the Internet.

The Internet Police. What a concept.

Santorum complained that President Bush enforced “the law” (probably alluding to the “Child Online Protection Act,” passed in 1998), but President Obama has not. Well, there’s a reason for that. The U.S. Supreme Court held that the law is unconstitutional, and the Court issued its final ruling in that case on the day after President Obama was sworn into office.

But let us give credit where credit is due. A Republican candidate for president finally has come up with a jobs program: policing the Internet for porn. All 50 billion pages of it.

I have a dramatically simpler idea.

Rick, if you’re against pornography, then don’t watch it.

You see how that works? Let me give you some more examples.

If you’re against contraception, don’t use it.

If you’re against abortion, don’t have one.

If you’re against Moslems, don’t become one.

If you’re against gay marriage, don’t have one.

If you’re against unions, don’t join one.

If you’re against universal health care, just keep your distance from doctors and hospitals.

If you’re against homosexuality, then feel free to limit your sexual interest to the 3 billion human beings of the opposite gender.

What I’m basically trying to say to Rick Santorum, and everyone like Rick Santorum, is this: mind your own business.

Courage,

Alan Grayson

“Make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business and to work with your hands, just as we told you.” 1 Thessalonians 4:11 (Paul of Tarsus, quoting Jesus)

 

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In a TV interview on Sunday, Rick Santorum said that if he is elected President, he will file criminal charges against the distribution of pornography. Santorum specifically referred to “exposur...
In a TV interview on Sunday, Rick Santorum said that if he is elected President, he will file criminal charges against the distribution of pornography. Santorum specifically referred to “exposur...
 
 
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08:31 PM on 03/26/2012
Free speech. Freedom of religion. The U.S a free country! - Love it or leave it Rick!
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candcje
Progressive, Liberal Democrat and Proud of it!
08:42 PM on 03/22/2012
Perfect!
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Dan Jighter
07:21 PM on 03/21/2012
Alan, dude, perfectly said.

Will you be our President?
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Mistinguette Grandison
No. Corporations are NOT people
09:58 PM on 03/24/2012
2016.
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Coffee4Me
To those who waited 6 hrs to vote, THANK YOU!
04:01 PM on 03/21/2012
Woman wearing skirts above the ankle are offensive to rick.
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Dan Jighter
07:46 PM on 03/21/2012
Maybe he can expand his jobs program to outlaw short skirts.
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Coffee4Me
To those who waited 6 hrs to vote, THANK YOU!
10:03 AM on 03/22/2012
Yes, I can see it now...the new American dress code prohibiting women from wearing pants. All skirts must cover ankle cleavage. Lol, The Prairie Skirt Amendment.
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Tom Rowland
In Dog we trust
12:45 PM on 03/21/2012
Oh, this isn't a jobs program. Santorum is going to go through each page, all 50 billion of them, and make sure they don't cross the line. It'll be a grueling job, but someone has to do it. Who better than Mr. Values?
12:39 PM on 03/21/2012
I really don't think we need to attack Rick on porn. I wish we could get rid of it but of course we can't. But when we talk about the "War on Women" the GOP has launched let's not forget that porn uses women in the most vile and disgusting way and I, for one am not going to criticize anyone who is against it. That doesn't mean I would vote for a republican, it just means that maybe in trying to point out the error of the GOP we could concentrate on where they are wrong and not where they might have a point.
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ninjasrolled
Orbiting a small unregarded yellow sun
01:38 AM on 03/22/2012
You haven't watched it for a while, I gather. There are millions of women that watch porn and love it, and thousands more that love the industry and find empowerment in it. Your sentiment is in the right place, but you certainly don't speak for all women.
12:31 PM on 03/21/2012
You think the war on drugs has been a huge expensive failure. Think about what a war on porn would cost, particularly with the Internet, and in the end how futile it would be. But then again Santorum lives in another universe all together anyway.
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sandhillsrider
tail lights and dust trails
12:14 PM on 03/21/2012
Alan Grayson is a blight on the Democrat party. He was voted out of office and his vitriol has been a plus for the Conservatives of our country!
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zevonia
12:39 PM on 03/21/2012
Maybe on the planet you live on but the rest of us live on Earth. Join us some time.
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Annoula
Enough about me!
01:09 PM on 03/21/2012
And your point is...?

P.S: What is the Democrat party?
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realsurfin
Pardon me, can you help out a fellow American
10:50 AM on 03/21/2012
I have never seen a candidate so hung up on himself and perversions... while ignoring the fact that his penn state buddies and his christian catholic church and bishops covered up the massive pedophilia going on in those organizations. they should lose all tax exempt status.

but there is an abnormal quite from Rick who preaches how he is the holiest of all Christians. In fact he will deflect any questions on this as gotcha journalism.. we Rick.. unfortunately for you. We gotcha...
10:42 AM on 03/21/2012
If you’re against men, don’t be one.

If you’re against procreation, don’t have one.

If you’re against rich, don’t become one.

If you’re against hetero marriage, don’t have one.

If you’re against corporations, don’t join one.

If you’re against personal responsibility, just keep your distance great USA.
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Dan Jighter
07:45 PM on 03/21/2012
Yea, I agree with nearly all of that, everything except your last point. I have no problem with people not having a hetero marriage or joining a corporation. Heck, they can have a sex change operation if they hate men that much.

Though I think the ethics of personal responsibility as practiced specifically by conservatives is, well, unrealistic and crazy. Personal responsibilty is one thing, what conservatives ask of people for "responsibility" is superhuman. And, no, I'm not keeping my distance from the USA, nor should you be asking people to keep their distance. Though if you REALLY want to go there, maybe conservative with their cruel and absurd notions of "morality" (which is deeply immoral in my view) and with their anti-science should keep their distance and stop bringing down the country. On the other hand, they could just start acting like sensible members of a society.
maddiemom
Retired teacher and ex-corporate wife.
12:43 PM on 03/26/2012
I commend you for your "critical thinking."
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ClevelandLib
Unless
10:41 AM on 03/21/2012
Thank you Alan...I am so tired of the 'Daddy Party' and their sick twisted need to be involved in our personal lives....if we were all corporations, they'd leave us alone wouldn't they?
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10:38 AM on 03/21/2012
Porn is protected by the 1st amendment. This is more proof that Rick Santorum is not for limited government.
10:00 AM on 03/21/2012
If your against Alan Grayson don't vote for him. Oh they didn't and he lost his seat. The Porn Industry is not something a political party should hang it's hat on. Defending the Larry Flynts of the world is pretty much a losing proposition. I know it is protected speech,etc. but do you really want to make it a plank in your attempt to get re-elected? I can see his opponent using this against him in the upcoming campaign as a defender of pornography. Not a smart move Alan.
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iskra
Natural enemy of sharks and tro//s
10:38 AM on 03/21/2012
Who's making it a plank other than Santorum?
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annekeb68
Fairly Unbalanced
11:55 AM on 03/21/2012
Well in right-winger mind, there has to be an exact mirror image on the left of everything they get criticized for in a desperate attempt to try and take the heat off of themselves.
01:57 PM on 03/21/2012
Grayson just did. It will be brought up in his attempt to get back into Congress.
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Mitchell Horton
10:53 AM on 03/21/2012
I'd make it a plank,
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10:00 AM on 03/21/2012
Government so small it can climb into bed with you and snuggle up.
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studioh!
bridging the snarchasm
11:50 AM on 03/21/2012
size does matter?
09:46 AM on 03/21/2012
The internet passed the 1 Trillion pages mark some time ago and it has been growing ever since. Just counting classic pornography sites there are about 100 pages of it for every man, woman, and child in America. If one adds to that everything the Mr. Santorum considers to be porn that would be about a million pages per person.

This would be a good jobs program and could be the start of a new industry, the religification of the internet. It will take many billions of dollars and it could employ all of the 23 million people who are now out of work. In a way, Mr. Santorum is our new FDR giving us a new vision and putting the power of a large central governmenrt behind it. But instead of FDR's roads, bridges, and dams, Mr Santorum will build a world of behavior spys, a constellation of computer screens being stared at by prudes 24/7 keeping us safe from the idea that religion is not the center of our lives. It may make ones skin crawl but it fills a vacuum and it is better than unemployment. And it is better than anything the Democrats have been brave enough to propose.
maddiemom
Retired teacher and ex-corporate wife.
12:44 PM on 03/26/2012
LOL