The fight against immorality and indecency can use every weapon possible.
President Bush should lend this effort his full support.

The fight against immorality and indecency can use every weapon
possible. President Bush should lend this effort his full support.

The fight against immorality and indecency can use every weapon possible.

President Bush should lend this effort his full support.

The fight against immorality and indecency

President Bush should lend this effort his full support.

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WASHINGTON (BP)--Southern Baptist public policy specialist Richard Land a=

other pro-family leaders have urged the White House to step up prosecution
of obscenity and have asked for a meeting with President Bush as a part of
that effort.

Land, president of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, joined Focus
on the Family Chairman James Dobson and American Family Association Chair=

Donald Wildmon, as well as nearly 80 other national and state leaders, in=

letter to Bush requesting the meeting and urging an expanded effort by the
administration against illegal pornography.

The White House said the president cannot meet before the November electi=

but there is an effort to set up a meeting thereafter, a spokesman for the
signers told Baptist Press.

The signers said they "value the administration's accomplishments" on the
issue so far and hope they can discuss methods of working with the presid=

"to further protect children and families."

Bush's help "is essential," the letter said, "because pornographers and
sexual predators are increasingly targeting America's most vulnerable
citizens: our children." The letter urged the president to speak publicly
about the problem of obscenity and said a meeting with anti-pornography
leaders would provide such an opportunity.

The signers also asked the president to add prosecutors and resources to =

Obscenity Prosecution Task Force at the Department of Justice. They also
called for the provision of field assistance from the Federal Bureau of
Investigation in the anti-obscenity effort.

While their groups have organized local anti-porn efforts, the signers sa=

it is critical for the federal government to "vigorously enforce obscenity
laws."

The letter reported that a recent study showed 33 percent of youth had
experienced unsolicited exposure to sexual material on the Internet in the
last year. It also said one in seven young people had received undesired
solicitations for sex during this time.

Other signers of the Sept. 1 letter included Alan Sears, president of the
Alliance Defense Fund and former executive director of the Attorney Gener=

s Commission on Pornography in the 1980s; Tony Perkins, president of Fami=

Research Council; Jan LaRue, chief counsel of Concerned Women for America;
Robert Peters, president of Morality in Media; Donna Rice Hughes, preside=

of Enough Is Enough; Richard Cizik, vice president of the National
Association of Evangelicals; and Patrick Trueman, former chief of the
Department of Justice's Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section.
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The fight against immorality and indecency can use every weapon possible.
President Bush should lend this effort his full support.

While their groups have organized local anti-porn efforts, the signers sa=

it is critical for the federal government to "vigorously enforce obscenity
laws."

The letter reported that a recent study showed 33 percent of youth had
experienced unsolicited exposure to sexual material on the Internet in the
last year. It also said one in seven young people had received undesired
solicitations for sex during this time.

Other signers of the Sept. 1 letter included Alan Sears, president of the
Alliance Defense Fund and former executive director of the Attorney Gener=

s Commission on Pornography in the 1980s; Tony Perkins, president of Fami=

Research Council; Jan LaRue, chief counsel of Concerned Women for America;
Robert Peters, president of Morality in Media; Donna Rice Hughes, preside=

of Enough Is Enough; Richard Cizik, vice president of the National
Association of Evangelicals; and Patrick Trueman, former chief of the
Department of Justice's Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section.
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The fight against immorality and indecency can use every weapon possible.
President Bush should lend this effort his full support.




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WASHINGTON (BP)--Southern Baptist public policy specialist Richard Land and
other pro-family leaders have urged the White House to step up prosecution
of obscenity and have asked for a meeting with President Bush as a part of
that effort.

The fight against immorality and indecency can use every weapon possible.
President Bush should lend this effort his full support.

The fight against immorality and indecency can use every weapon possible.
President Bush should lend this effort his full support.

The fight against immorality and indecency can use every weapon possible.
President Bush should lend this effort his full support.