If the GOP can win with homophobia, why can't the left label them "FREAKS"

[devilgrrl]

completely and utterly OBSESSED with "weird" sex? Because that's exactly what they are - a bunch of FREAKS that, more than likely, practice the very acts they purport to loathe!!!!!!!!!!

Soliciting sex with boys on chat lines, prostitutes in the White House press corp, etc... Why not?

[whistle]

1. This goes back to Ronald Reagan's Attorney General....

...Edwin Meeses who put out the Report on Pornography, which sounds like it may have become the hand-book for modern GOP sexual conduct.

<snip>
The Obscene, Disgusting, and Vile
Meese Commission Report
Pat Califia, 1986


Our Teflon President and his Attorney General, Edwin "There Is No There There" Meese III, have thrown a big, juicy bone to the mad dog packs of the New Christian Right. The Justice Department recently appointed a Commission with the mandate to overturn the 1970 Presidential Commission on Pornography's finding that there is no evidence of a link between sexually explicit materials and delinquent or criminal behavior. The final report of this new Commission, published in July, 1986, holds out the hope that by using draconian measures against pornography we can turn America into a rerun of "Leave It to Beaver." The Commission's findings should placate the lowest common denominator of the citizenry who made a drugstore cowboy our Chief Executive--those folks who believe the Bible should be taken literally, but the First Amendment should not.
In a press conference to announce selection of Commission members, Meese claimed that since l970, "the content of pornography has radically changed, with more and more emphasis upon extreme violence." He also claimed that his Commission "has not come to their task with minds made up. Their job is to approach the issues objectively...In any recommendation the commission makes, it will carefully balance the need to control the distribution of pornography with the need to protect very carefully first amendment freedoms." <1>

This statement was not reassuring, coming from a man who thinks the Supreme Court should not compel the states to abide by the Bill of Rights, a man who has said, "Miranda only helps guilty defendants. Most innocent people are glad to talk to the police." Under his direction, the Justice Department has become an Orwellian ministry that wages war on affirmative action, tried to halt funding for the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence on the grounds that it was a "pro-lesbian" group, <2> and ruled that employers can discriminate against people with AIDS (or people who have been exposed to HTLV-III) if they believe they are preventing the spread of the disease. <3>

The most powerful commissioners--chairman Henry Hudson, vice-chairman Tex Lezar, executive director Alan Sears, and Edward J. Garcia--are law-enforcement professionals. When he was the commonwealth's attorney for a suburb of Washington, D.C., Hudson received a presidential commendation for closing down every adult bookstore and massage parlor in the county. The Commission's constitutional expert, Frederick Schauer, a professor of law at the University of Michigan, takes the position that pornography is not protected by the First Amendment since it is a form of sexual activity, not speech.

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<link> http://eserver.org/cultronix/califia/meese/

<other links>
http://www.lrp-cofi.org/PR/pornPR27.html

http://homepage.mac.com/durangodave/dmecreative/html/writing/Censorship.htm

[Chipper Chat]

3. Guess who else was a vociferous member of that Meese Commisssion?

Our Fuckus on the Family head Dr. James Dobson. He was as out-of-touch back then as he is now.

[devilgrrl]

4. I'd be interested to know what Mr. Dobson has hiding in his closet...

something that would live up to the phase "truth is stranger than fiction" I would imagine.

[Warren Stupidity]

2. Go ahead. AAR will cover it.

Nobody else will 'cause every other media outlet is bought and paid for.