The Internet is a cesspool of child pornography, and in an attempt to stop the exploitation of children, our society's most innocent and vulnerable, in 2003 Congress passed the PROTECT Act, a provision of which was then overturned by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.At issue is a provision of the act that makes it a separate offense to pander-to offer, advertise, promote, present or distribute child porn via computer messages-whether it exists or not. This is an important tool in drying up child porn, because bartering is the method of this industry-often beginning with the false offer.
The challenge came from Michael Williams who encountered an undercover federal agent in an Internet chat room where he posted a public message: "Dad of toddler has ‘good' pics of her and [sic] me for swap of your toddler pics, or live cam." In further computer interchanges he posted a computer hyperlink to seven images of actual minors ages five to fifteen, engaging in the most graphic sexual activity.
Williams was convicted of both possession and pandering, but the second count was overturned by the lower count. The Supreme Court has agreed to hear the case, thus weighing in on this provision of the PROTECT Act.
Under the direction of Gene Schaerr, an appellate attorney who argues frequently before the Supreme Court and the Chairman of the Board for the Family Leader Foundation, Family Leader has entered a brief in the case urging the Supreme Court to uphold this provision of the PROTECT Act.
Though Family Leader has been a party defending marriage in California, New Jersey and Maryland, this is our first Supreme Court case, and a noteworthy milestone for the organization.
Bias in Sex Ed
Comprehensive sex education overwhelmingly pushes condoms and downplays abstinence says a new federal report issued in time for a vote in the House Appropriations Committee on abstinence education funding. The report was issued by the Department of Health and Human Services' Administration for Children and Families (ACF)..The Washington Times reported, for instance, that the "Making Proud Choices" curricula developed for middle-school students ages 11 to 13, mentions "condom" or "condoms" 650 times and "abstinence 18 times." In another major American curriculum, "Making Proud Choices," the text makes 650 references to condoms and only 18 to abstinence. The report concludes that modern curricula seek to "lessen risks" rather than work at "avoiding sexual activity", and this may explain why they are "more effective at increasing condom use than at delaying sexual debut." The report also found "misleading statements" about condom-failure rates "in every curriculum reviewed." |
The Las Vegas of Gay Marriage
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The reason Massachusetts hasn't been able to become as Mitt Romney says, the "Las Vegas of gay marriage" is because of a 1913 law that bans non-resident couples from visiting the state to get married. Now, charged up by their success, same-sex marriage advocates are focusing on repealing that law. If that happens, Massachusetts chief export could be same-sex marriage couples who come to Massachusetts and marry, then go home to their resident states and sue for mandatory recognition. Not only will this backlog the courts, but introduce legal chaos over the issue of marriage in all states.
The final tally in the Constitutional Convention on letting the people vote on the Marriage Amendment in Massachusetts revealed that eleven had jumped sides at the last minute (nine who had voted for the marriage amendment at the Constitutional Convention held on Jan, 2 and two freshmen legislators who ran and won their election on ‘letting the people vote.")
Why were they turncoats? The Boston Globe may give a clue. The day of the Constitutional Convention, Arline Isaacson, the chief lobbyist for the homosexual movement, was quoted in the news as saying, "It's very frustrating because legislators keep upping the ante on what they want to get for their votes."
Apparently, these these votes were for sale.
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Filed under: Vox Populi, Family, Religion, Action Items, Blogwonks, education, homosexuality — Maurine Proctor @ 8:58 pm
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