Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) has areport out highlighting the extent to which some of the most vocal Congressional opponents of pornography accept contributions from corporations profiting from selling pornography. Some key players of the report include:

Rep. Tom DeLay (R-TX) accepted $24,000 from corporations and executives who profit from pornography. In 1999, the National Republican Congressional Committee sent a letter signed by Rep. DeLay, in which he pointed to “pornographer Larry Flynt” as a “pro-Clinton tool” and said he was “fighting back against this porn-and-smut peddler.” Further, the Majority Leader of the House has called pornography “a destructive force in society.”


Sen. Sam Brownback (R-KS) accepted $17,000 in contributions from corporations and executives who profit from pornography. As chair of the Senate Commerce Committee’s Science, Technology and Space Subcommittee, Sen. Brownback held a hearing on pornography addiction in November, 2004. After hearing testimony from experts about how porn affects the brain, Sen. Brownback said, “[i]t is the crack cocaine of sexual addiction” and “its pervasiveness affects our families.” In early 2005, Sen. Brownback praised U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales when he announced he would appeal the dismissal of federal criminal indictments against a California pornography producer, stating “[t]he Justice Department’s decision indicates a renewed effort to go against purveyors of pornography, whose products are so damaging to our culture, our families, and our nation.”

Now it would seem if you speak out so vocally against pornography you'd be a bit more careful about accepting money from corporations who profit from producing and selling it. So much for being the party of "values."
posted by Idle Crank at 3/11/2005 12:33:00 AM