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

[Alan Grayson]

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.[br /]
The Internet Police. What a concept.[br /]
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 US 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.[br /]
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.[br /]
I have a dramatically simpler idea.[br /]
Rick, if you’re against pornography, then don’t watch it.[br /]
You see how that works? Let me give you some more examples.[br /]
If you’re against contraception, don’t use it.[br /]
If you’re against abortion, don’t have one.[br /]
If you’re against Moslems, don’t become one.[br /]
If you’re against gay marriage, don’t have one.[br /]
If you’re against unions, don’t join one.[br /]
If you’re against universal health care, just keep your distance from doctors and hospitals. [br /]
If you’re against homosexuality, then feel free to limit your sexual interest to the 3 billion human beings of the opposite gender.[br /]
What I’m basically trying to say to Rick Santorum, and everyone like Rick Santorum, is this: mind your own business.[br /]
Courage,[br /]
Alan Grayson[br /]
“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) [br /]

[teddy51]

1. Thats the thing I could never figure out with these extreme right wingers. If you don't

like something, so be it that doesn't mean the rest of us should be prohibited from it. What the hell is there problem with minding there own business.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

4. +1

They must lead very boring lives when they are not actively working to prohibit all of these kinds of things. I frankly just don't know how they do it. I usually have just enough time on any given day to worry about my life, my family, my pets, etc. I have neither the time nor the inclination to give much (if any) thought to whether or not my next door neighbors are using birth control or what the gay couple down the street is doing in the privacy of their own bedroom. I don't understand people whom apparently have the time, energy, and resources to be professional "busybodies". How DO they do it? I just don't get it.

[MustBeTheBooz]

6. My thought exactly! n/t

[LiberalLoner]

2. Authoritarian mindset of Repukes.

They want strong leaders (ruthless dictators) because that makes them feel secure. They want to control everyone and everything because of their mindset. Personally I see authoritarianism as mental illness.

[xchrom]

3. Du rec. Nt

[zentrum]

5. Grayson has such leadership balls n/t

[Broderick]

7. There are many here that feel porn is so bad

Seen the battles and seen the arguments. I for one would need it pried from my cold dead hands. LOL


Seriously, not a porn freak, although I am not pure on partaking. I would just say, to each his or her own.

[quaker bill]

8. If Icky Ricky were to set up the Porn Police

I expect the jobs would be easy to fill. I agree with you Mr. Grayson, but I think I have been redistricted into John Mica's District

I almost never agree with him. (Is it actually a dead squirel on his head?)

[LiberalFighter]

9. He just wants the porn for himself.