AFA follies

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Department of Defense ignoring law, selling p'orn

Urge your representative to co-sponsor Military Honor and Decency Act

May 29, 2008

Dear ,

According to some at the Department of Defense, porn is harmless entertainment. To them, porn should be made readily available to military personnel.

A decade-old law officially bars military exchanges from selling or renting videos or printed material with "the dominant theme of which depicts or describes nudity" or se-ual activities "in a lascivious way." But the Defense Department, despite the law, has deemed it appropriate to sell many se-ually-explicit publications to soldiers stationed throughout the country and around the world.

It is hardly comforting to know that publications such as Celebrity Skin, Pl-yb-y's College Girls, and Playmates In Bed are approved by the Defense Department.

The por-ogr-phic industry has become a societal threat of monumental proportions. Its primary targets are men and boys, but families and society as a whole cannot escape its destructive impact. It leads men to adopt unrealistic expectations of their wives and demeaning views of women in general. It rips apart marriages and destroys families.

Rep. Paul Broun, a former jet engine mechanic in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserves and later a medical officer in the U.S. Navy, has introduced the Military Honor and Decency Act (H.R.5821), which would close a loophole that permits access to se-ually explicit material at military exchange stores.

Our soldiers are already encountering the unfortunate but necessary images of war as they honorably fight to preserve our liberty and extend its reach abroad. It's time for Congress to revisit the law and clean out por-ogr-phic material on all military premises.

I confess that I am not familiar with p'orn or the por-ogr-phic industry. Point and laugh! The alternative is to cry.