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portlander23

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Tue Jan 3, 2017, 10:24 AM Jan 2017

Heres how Republicans are trying to kill porn by declaring a public health crisis

Here’s how Republicans are trying to kill porn by declaring a public health crisis
Travis Getty
Raw Story

State Sen. Todd Weiler (R-Woods Cross) sponsored a resolution that passed last year to declare the public health crisis, and he said the new bill would focus mainly on underage children and teens who become addicted to online pornography, reported the Salt Lake Tribune.

“I’m trying to kind of track the same path that was taken against tobacco 70 years ago,” Weiler told KSL-TV. “It’s not government coming in and saying what you can and can’t watch. It’s just basically a message to the pornography industry that if someone in Utah can prove damages from the product, that they may be held liable financially.”

Weiler, who is an attorney, admits the first two or three dozen cases against pornographers would most likely be dismissed, but he believes they would eventually gain traction.

“I’m looking at where we can push the envelope as a state of Utah,” Weiler said. “To pretend that this is not having any impact on our youth, on children’s’ minds as they’re developing, as their attitudes towards sex and the opposite sex are being formed, I think, is foolish.”


When will our long national nightmare of pornography end?? HOW MANY MORE MUST DIE???

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Heres how Republicans are trying to kill porn by declaring a public health crisis (Original Post) portlander23 Jan 2017 OP
What is the First Lady Elect's opinion? C_U_L8R Jan 2017 #1
Isn't Utah one of the top consumers of online porn? crazycatlady Jan 2017 #2
Let them try NobodyHere Jan 2017 #3
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