Baldwin Gets an Ally in Anti-Porn Fight
“The conservative Catholic Citizenship has joined actor Stephen Baldwin’s battle against the opening of a porn shop in Nyack, N.Y. The born-again star of ‘The Usual Suspects’ has been waging a crusade to try to stop the opening of the adult book store, which is currently under construction. He has gone as far as threatening to photograph patrons of the store once it opens and publish their pictures, The New York Daily News reported. The Catholic Citizenship has filed suit with the New York Supreme Court in Rockland County, claiming the city planning board failed to consider the impact on the community when it approved the porn store’s application. ‘I’m not directly involved in the petition, but it’s exactly what I’ve been arguing,’ Baldwin, a 39-year-old father of two, told the News. ‘This store would bring the type of individual we do not want. Sex offenders will come to town, deviants will come to town.’ The store is being built 200 feet from an elementary school, he said. Nyack village attorney Walter Sevastian told the newspaper the board followed all proper procedures in regard to the business.” — Pittsburgh Tribune Review (US)
You may recall that Mr. Baldwin has been fighting the good fight for some time now. A born-again Christian, the grade B actor has made it his personal mission to prevent an adult store from opening in his little hamlet. Now he’s joined in his cause by Catholic Citizenship, an organization that encourages Catholics to participate in politics. The group’s web site, for example, proudly notes that they contributed 70,000 signatures to a petition supporting the Constitutional Marriage Amendment, which would define “Marriage as between only One Man and One Woman.” While such marriage conditions probably encourage the consumption of pornography, that doesn’t prevent Catholic Citizenship from wanting to suppress it. Maybe they feel that sexual urges not sated by marriage would be better satisfied in the arms of alter boys.
Anyway, Catholic Citizenship’s petition probably won’t come to much. They’re complaining that the adult bookstore will have an “effect on the community,” and yet that’s failing to consider that the pornophiles patronizing the shop are members of the community too. Look, it’s a law-abiding business. It’s not going to lure sex offenders and deviants to town. Deviants prefer the unruly porn on the internet, and sex offenders prefer — well, if recent lawsuits are any indication, they prefer churches to adult bookstores. Maybe lawmakers should consider enacting legislation that would prevent houses of worship from operating too closely to elementary schools.
Is this the same conservative Catholic Citizenship that has priests that molest choir boys and then try to hide it up in their bureaucratic curtains?
They’ve got a lot of audacity trying to regulate the business of morality after their recent underhanded efforts to hide from the public all the perverse scandals that the Catholic church has been dealing with.
We have heard talk enough. We have listened to all the drowsy, idealess, vapid sermons that we wish to hear. We have read your Bible and the works of your best minds. We have heard your prayers, your solemn groans and your reverential amens. All these amount to less than nothing. We want one fact. We beg at the doors of your churches for just one little fact. We pass our hats along your pews and under your pulpits and implore you for just one fact. We know all about your mouldy wonders and your stale miracles. We want a this year’s fact. We ask only one. Give us one fact for charity. Your miracles are too ancient. The witnesses have been dead for nearly two thousand years.
– Robert Green Ingersoll, “The Gods” (1872)
Good God…Stop making everyone else’s lives miserable. I hate your movies and I prefer to take simple holistic views on life, rather than trust someone who may or may not exist.
The idea of deviants and sex offenders visiting porn shops is a stereotype. I’ve read from many sex-store owner who meet lots of interesting people in the store: police officers, hikers, tough bulldykes who were DIY-ers and couples looking for excitement.
All comments become the property of PervScan. You must use an email address to post a comment. However, PervScan disallows email addresses in the text of comments.
HQ Videos
