Utah Senator Mike Lee Proposes Bill That Would Ban Porn
It’s unconstitutional and will never pass the U.S. Senate, but this is a sad, sick reminder of where Republicans want to take this country. (And a good sign that Mike Lee likely has a massive collection of porn hidden in his home.) Via Gizmodo:
Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) proposed a bill on Tuesday that, if passed, would redefine what obscenity means nationwide, which could effectively decimate the porn industry. The Utah Republican filed the Interstate Obscenity Definition Act (IODA) based on the Communications Act of 1934, and stated in the IODA that “obscenity is not protected speech under the First Amendment and is prohibited from interstate or foreign transmission under U.S. law.”
Although producing and distributing sexual content is currently legal in the U.S., Lee’s bill seeks to reinstate the obscenity rules that were established in the Communications Act of 1934. These rules include removing content that “appeals to the prurient interest in nudity, sex, or excretion, depicts, describes, or represents actual or simulated sexual acts with the objective intent to arouse, titillate, or gratify the sexual desires of a person, and, … lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value,” the IODA says.
[Gizmodo]
More on the bill and obscenity rules at the link.
The craziest part? Mike Lee is actually in a position to propose federal laws for the entire country, and yet he was elected in a state full of child-raping polygamous psychopaths by barely half a million votes, which is equivalent to one half of one percent of the populations of California, Texas, and Florida combined. This country truly is an insane joke.
