The Bible Belt's Love Affair With (Gay and Straight) Porn

[xchrom]

http://www.alternet.org/sex/154539/the_bible_belt%27s_love_affair_with_%28gay_and_straight%29_porn_/

The adult entertainment industry has long been one of the favorite whipping boys of social conservatives, who have argued that porn and other forms of adult entertainment (including strip clubs, swing clubs, phone sex and BDSM) are incompatible with the moral values of the Heartland and the Bible Belt. Porn, social conservatives claim, is for “godless liberals” in San Francisco, Greenwich Village and West Hollywood, not right-of-center voters in Republican-dominated “red states.” But the reality is that porn isn’t any less popular in so-called “red states” than it is in so-called “blue states,” and ironically, the places where the 2012 Republican presidential hopefuls are the most likely to be railing against porn are also places where an abundance of voters are likely to be consuming it.

GOP presidential hopefuls Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich have not only been playing the abortion and gay marriage cards—they have also assured the Christian Right organization Morality in Media (MIM) that they would be tough on porn if elected president. Former Massachusetts governor Romney, in a written statement, told MIM he favors “strict enforcement of our nation’s obscenity laws”; serial adulterer and former House of Representatives speaker Gingrich met with MIM president Patrick Truemann in person and assured him that if elected president, he would appoint an attorney general who would make federal obscenity prosecutions a high priority.

Meanwhile, in Laurens County, South Carolina, the local Republican Party is asking possible candidates to swear off all porn consumption. In late February, the Laurens County GOP unanimously adopted a resolution asking local Republicans who want to get on the primary ballot to sign a 28-point pledge that includes opposition to abortion, gay marriage and same-sex civil unions as well as vows to abstain from premarital sex and not view any porn. The pledge states: “You cannot now, from the moment you sign this pledge, look at pornography.”

[HillWilliam]

1. Betcha Ezekiel 23 gets skipped over in sunday school

It's one of the dirtiest pieces of prose ever penned.

Guess they have to cut that out in SC now.

"But it's inna bahhhble!!"

[Lint Head]

2. This is theocratic fascism at it's best.

South Carolina home of the Taliban.

[sarcasmo]

11. Which is where the far right wants us to be

[LuvNewcastle]

3. I think they make the porn in the blue states,

and watch the porn in the red states.

[qb]

4. Learning to love yourself...

is the safest sex of all.

The Rethuglicans need to lighten up.

[JBoy]

5. There's a "pry it from my cold, dead hands" joke in there somewhere.

[bongbong]

6. HA HA HA

> The pledge states: “You cannot now, from the moment you sign this pledge, look at pornography.”

What a laugh! The only thing conservatives devour more voraciously than pron is lies & hypocrisy.

[KG]

7. ironic the RNC is in Tampa, the swinger capital of the world.

[GodlessBiker]

8. Missouri has the most adult bookstores along the highway...

than any other state when I drive cross-country (which is fairly often). It seems that there is an adult bookstore every 10 miles in MO.

[yodermon]

9. would love to see a hit-frequency map of the US for the pr0n sites..

[Initech]

10. Makes you wonder how much porn Rmoney has stashed on his hard drive.