Don Wildmon and the American Family Association have a new obsession: U.S. troops’ access to adult materials.
Ten years after Congress banned sales of sexually explicit material on military bases, the Pentagon is under fire for continuing to sell adult fare, such as Penthouse and Playmates In Bed, that it doesn’t consider explicit enough to pull from its stores.
Dozens of religious and anti-pornography groups have complained to Congress and Defense Secretary Robert Gates that a Pentagon board set up to review magazines and films is allowing sales of material that Congress intended to ban.
“They’re saying ‘we’re not selling stuff that’s sexually explicit’ … and we say it’s pornography,” says Donald Wildmon, head of the American Family Association, a Christian anti-pornography group. A letter-writing campaign launched Friday by opponents of the policy aims to convince Congress to “get the Pentagon to obey the law,” he adds.
Let me get this straight. U.S. troops are fighting two wars, neither of which are going well, and the American Family Association’s biggest concern is what kind of magazines the troops can purchase on base? Here’s a radical idea: maybe those who wear the uniform and put their lives on the line for their country should be able to read whatever they want.
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Yeah, I’m not sure it’s Don Wildmon’s, or Congress’ business what whack-off magazines our soldiers buy. Or how many.
Of course. Why should our brave warriors be granted the very rights they are “defending” for us? Besides, they didn’t mention that favorite of the GOP, Playgirl. Guess they don’t have a problem with THAT being sold in the PX.
I guess what they want is them to go into battle with a bible in one hand and their rifle in the other.
jesus called and said to quit using his name.
“We’re fighting for Freedom”
Freedom from what? To ignore the Constitution?
Far Right = Hypocrites. A-holes. Douchebags.
This is most definitely NOT supporting our troops. For shame.
Wild Man Wildmon is still alive. Wow.
Sexual pleasure is forbidden. The thrill of the kill of your enemy is applauded.
So f’d up, I don’t even know where to begin.
Cause they want nothing but pure thoughts in your head when it gets blown clean off.
Hey, is Rush considered ###########???
Whatever your religious leaning, having adult magazines available to troops on bases pales greatly when considering the depth of destruction of life and property throughout the world taking place in our country’s name. I am at a loss for words to describe the total idiocy of these people. It is beyond comprehension.
You know when I was stationed overseas in Japan the early 90’s the only thing that kept me sane was the hardcore porn. It was either that or go into the village get hammered and have sex with one of the Filipino whores while getting an STD to go along with it.
I rather have guys masturbate on base rather than fighting or killing the locals.
You think that I’m joking but young men that are trained to kill need a outlet; plus it keeps the married guys faithful.
hardcore porn isn’t pretty but it the lessors of two evils
ha,, good luck,, gotta start picking wars in to fight in a country thats stitched together with a little looser moral fabric.
Outlawing pornography for the troops: Because masturbating makes you go blind!
*rolleyes*
Old enough to die in a rich man’s war. God forbid they should think about sex. Good luck with that!
Make love, not war!
I’m pretty sure the Republican party will support the idea that soldiers serving overseas should only be allowed to buy magazines that feature nude centerfolds of Rush Limbaugh and Bill O’Reilly.
Masturbation is Murder!
This is about as non-story as Conservative Fux News.
Whose freedom are they fighting for?
Let them masturbate, just until they need glasses.
if we spill the seed we have less aggression.
Gotta keep that murderous animal inside alive.
remember
hope and love and sex and dreams still surviving on the scene.
Navy Vet @ 2:
ROFLMAO!!
holy fuck in hell. this is amazing. im glad most marines are gay.
Maybe they should target rape instead?
the way women are suffering in the military, this will only make things worse.
xoites defends Constitution @ 23:
Get real, x. You know these shite stains don’t believe women have a right to have a say over their own bodies…
At the Mukasey hearings last week, there was also SCORN FOR PORN, FROM STORMIN’ MORMON ORRIN
Unreal. Just. Unreal.
Old enough to die, old enough to read porn…
This is some kind of joke right??? Worrying about porn mags in a friggin war eh… Stupid stupid pius dickweeds… Get a fucking clue!… Sex and the service has been as linked as peanut butter and jelly since… well since always.. I ain’t advocatin for or against penthouse, porn video or even Flints Hustler mag but the fact is, when you’re looking at death day in and day out… a certain mindset takes hold… Porn mags or sex with hookers, its all about the same thing… Distraction from a shitty reality.. These morons think all their bullshit is going to change that???…
Wars breeds this kind of mindset, they need to check out a little history… How bout all the WWII war babies.. I think they were sometimes referred to as shipout babies…People were fucking like bunnies in heat before going oversea back then… Big little baby boomlet in 41/42…
Instead of sniffing around worrying about who is fucking who on liberty or who is pounding their pud late night in the barracks looking at nekid women or even nekid men.. Maybe those holier than though hypocritical pricks ought to focus their attention on getting Chimpy to end his moronic crusading warmongering.. NOW THAT’S PORN worth bitching about…Bush and his deathcult. Jesus, this shit…. Just when ya think it can’t go any more off the rails… it does…..Fuck em and their weirdly repressed sex phobias…..JD
These extreme religious assholes would like to see our soldiers with the bible on one hand and a machine gun on the other, great, start the killing in the name of religion!. These are some of the biggest asses in the world. Why do we put up with these assholes. I say, liberals have to stand up and speak up. These idiots have to be driven underground where they can rut.
Old enough to die, old enough to read porn… old enough to drink
lol.. Bad move.
They just lost the military.
On one side you have Islamic fundamentalists shooting at them… on the other side they have Christian fundamentalists preaching at them. Maybe the troops should get out of the middle and let these crazy bastards battle it out directly.
Steve Benen:
Yeah, no kidding. Wildmon et al may need to be treated like children, but military members are grown up and able to decide for themselves.
Geez, during WWII the service members used to have drawings of naked women on their airplanes. It didn’t ruin their lives. I would think by now Puritanism would be dying out, but not so.
Pretty sad, to be a young soldier, get blown up and die, and the closest you’ve ever gotten to intimacy with a woman is masturbating to a picture in a magazine.
And the people you’re dying for don’t even want you to have that.
Meddy @ 33:
Ladies and gentlemen, please quit calling in. We have a winner!
I think this is THE question that ought to be asked of all of the GOP candidates at the YouTube debate.
“Do you support the American Family Association’s call for the military to ban selling sexually explicit material on military bases?”
Either they waffle and don’t answer, or they piss off a large core constituency.
I think someone should sit Wildmon down in a chair and show him pictures of babies with their brains and intestines spilled into the dirt, and then pictures of nude women. Watch his reaction. He’d probably get a hard-on where any normal man would wince in disgust, and vice-versa.
These people have the blood of our children on their hands and are responsible for hundreds of thousands of Iraqi deaths by their vote and they are concerned about porn? Fucking porn?!!! What a bunch of hypocrites. And in November of 2008, they will still support a party that promotes war/murder over negotiation. If their is a god, they wont see him/her. They will burn. I have no doubt about this.
This will be a popular move. I can’t wait until they start trying to clean up the smutty establishments that are often found right outside of US military bases.
That’ll drive a wedge between the military and the religious right!
The main obscenity here is Don Wildman and his American Family Association, followed closely by the Iraq War.
Billy Joe @ 40:
Heehee….talk about a morale buster.
Okay, here is a radical idea…If nudie mags and videos are taboo for our precious impressionable troops, and they can’t even buy themselves a BEER after a long hard day of killin’ and dodgin’ bullets, UNTIL THEY ARE OVER 21, let’s make it ILLEGAL to recruit anyone UNDER the age of 21! Keep the recruiters out of our high schools and colleges, and make it totally against the law to recruit, enlist, or draft anyone under 21. Imagine the trouble they’d have filling the ranks with older men and women…men and women with a little more world experience, education, a fledgling career, and more fully realized political opinions…people with a little something to lose, and a sense of their own mortality, if you will. At that point, you might find you have a military made up of human beings with a little more judgement who are capable of questioning the validity of their missions, rather than drone-like compliance to insane orders.
No titties for the troops! They have to come home and see them IN PERSON! As a matter of fact, they should ALL come home, NOW, so they can see some real, live titties! And for the ladies serving - whatever their pleasure is! Dicks! (but NOT cheney’s/satan’s…)
Prayse jaysus, we can finally agree on sumthin!
So the troops come home to titties, porn, and whatever, and the religious right-wingers go to Iraqistan and fight the “crusade” with slingshots and tired old kitchen utensils picked up from the local thrift shop.
There truly is a god, trademarked by the repugnant - excuse me - repukenican - oops - re-too-stoopid-to-live party. “Hi, I bred with my sister, brother, mother, father, daughter, son, dog, and gerbil, and I’m a repuglickdickan.” Pretty much says it all… No brains, all genetic dead-ends. But DANGEROUS as hell! Some of them actually speak with a mild erudition, even though they can’t spel it or unnerstand it!
“Say, momma, why is daddy wearin that wetsuit? And what is that thing in his bottom side - is that jesus?”
below_me @ 4:
……unless you’re setting aside his rightful residuals.
Personally, I’d love to see one of these chickenhawk bible-thumpers try to take the mag out of the hands of the soldier…..I wanna see their X-Rays after they get out of the ER
Anyone who hasn’t already done so, I highly reccommend subscribing the AFA’s mailing list- it’s quite entertaining! Not only do you get their odd fixation with Ford Motor Co’s stocks, their delightful War On Christmas rantings, and their cute misrepresentations of science, you also get countless links to explicit sex scenes from tv shows, obscene commercials, even amateur videos of gay pride parades, all for the purposes of “informing” their members, of course.
It’s a freakin’ riot! :D
Pericles @ 16:
This is brilliant! We can turn all the right-wing military into closeted homo-fags like Larry Craig and Mark Foley (etc, etc, etc - you know the liturgy). Then they’ll all turn to knitting and rim-jobs for entertainment and won’t have time for this bullsh*t! Oh, wait, these guys don’t think they’re fags - they think they’re good christchuns. Right.
Nevermind.
Yessss…yessss…get rid of alllll the Playboyssssss and Penthoussssesssss…that’ll GAY EM UP REAL GOOD!
Jack Damage @ 29:
They should just pray during all their “down time.” Jesus would appreciate that, and I’m sure He would reward them with “enhanced weaponry” and “unlimited ammo” and “impervious shields”!!! Oh - nevermind… That was a video game. Oops. My bad. So maybe we could give the troops extra peanut butter? Would that help?
The American Family Association would like nothing more than to establish heaven on earth: a theocratic dictatorship that regulates what you read, hear and do to weed out heathens, malcontents, troublemakers and atheists until they achieve pure mind control, just like North Korea (where the Supreme Leader engages in ancestor worship).
Eddybaby @ 43:
Sounds like a good idea to me. Unless they’re young Republicans, because they don’t indulge in alcohol or sex anyway. Heh. :)
This is the same mentality that had the CPA in iraq assign people to focus on implementing a flat tax, developing a new traffic code for baghdad, or creating a state-of-the-art electronic stock exchange in baghdad.
Absolute idiocy.
Eddybaby @ 43:
Of course, god will smite you for your heathen thoughts… He may smite you with the mighty sword of the “bush” administration’s cronies, but by jesus he’ll smite you! Children are “god’s” warriors, fighting “god’s” war agains the heathen. Prayse “jesus” that good cris-chun chilluns back the “CRUSADE” aginst the “evil-doers.”