Mediawatch-UK changes mind on porn laws
The Church of England Newspaper reports a strange turnaround in Mediawatch-UK’s attitude to the proposed new violent porn laws.
John Beyer had initially welcomed the proposal, but his ambitious deputy David Turtle broke ranks to tell the Church newspaper “a law which is badly put together is worse than no law at all”. Apparently, he thinks the government missed a “marvellous opportunity” to crack down on smut in all its forms, and that these new laws represent a “fudged approach”.
Why decompartmentalise some hardcore porn websites from others? It is an illogical approach to the problem.
With such an elegant way with words (decompartmentalise?) and firm grasp of logic, Turtle is well qualified to take over at the helm of Mediawatch-UK when the “Massah” retires. And it looks like he is even more censorious than his mentor. He certainly won’t tolerate any fudging.
Meanwhile, Christian social care charity CARE have welcomed the law. Pornography has been one of their bugbears for a while. Last December they organised a conference on the subject, entitled “Searching for Intimacy”. A Christian singer wrote songs specially for the event on the theme “the divine plea for purity”.
The law is under consultation until December. Consultation response forms are available from the Home Office website.
It just goes to show how NASTY, VICIOUS and VINDICTIVE these people really are. They’ll stop at nothing to get their repressed, narrow-minded, bigoted “standards” imposed on the rest of us, including throwing people into prison for no good reason whatsoever.
They make me sick.
I think it is they who need a lesson in morality.
Further:
I wonder where this would end if the likes of Turtle got his way ?
Imprisonment for owning a copy of Playboy ?
Whilst I disagree with Turtle’s aims, some of what he said does seem eminently sensible. A badly worded law is worse than no law at all, for all concerned, whether in favour of it or opposed to it.
Yes I agree. But the implication seems to be, that he’d like to see people put in jail for owning any porn at all….
I doubt the moral minority will ever be happy if all sex is removed from the internet, TV broadcasting and films altogether.
They want their prudish attitudes to be forced upon us all.
Indeed. But this is a free country.
Or at least it is supposed to be.
Why is their “offence” more important than my “offence” at having unfair, childish, and unnecessary censorship imposed on me ?
I’m sick of them to be honest.
I think if these guys got their way, the Daily Sport and probably even Sun et al. would all be off the streets!
If you think that’s bad, try living in the Isle of Man.
CARE are one of a number of ‘faith based charities’ (i.e. right to lifers looking for public handouts and a tax break) who have found it useful to set up satellite Manx charities, thus avoiding public scrutiny of their accounts and activities as required in England and Wales.
Thanks to the Manx Education minister, who’s also a lay preacher with extreme right wing views, they’re now ‘helping’ to teach citizenship in local schools and run anti-drug programmes. Some locals are fighting back on the basis that even the most outrageous drug dealer doesn’t claim his product gives life after death, and even the dumbest crackhead wouldn’t believe it.
Who do you think should teach citizenship,Stuart? Should it be exclusively liberal humanists (even though not exactly -to put it mildly- 100% of our citizens are liberal humanists, and far bigger international communities are represented in the UK than the liberal humanists)? Thought control?
How about a new idea.
Porn is evil – or so some might have you believe.
For this to be proven there would have to be a scientific study on the effect of pornography ranging from the mild to the hardcore.
I would be interested to see the results.
If if proved (to support my point here) that porn has no effect on people then what is the problem?
As was previously stated this is indeed a free country and as people are ‘free’ to support fanatical religions they are also free not to believe and to indulge into anything they like albeit legally.