Religious right trying to ban Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue

http://americablog.blogspot.com/2005/03/religious-right-trying-to-ban-sports.html


Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Every heterosexual Republican man (and lesbian) out there can kiss my happy ass. You voted for these nuts, they spent years dehumanizing gays, other minorities, Christians they don't agree with, and Muslims, and you all sat back and thought "eh, doesn't concern me."

Well guess what. Now they're coming after your happy ass (well, or your favorite model's).
...The president of Michigan's American Decency Association is encouraging Christians not to stand by while disguised pornography gets a foothold through local checkout stands. Bill Johnson says now that the yearly Sports Illustrated "Swimsuit Edition" is in retail outlets everywhere, it is an opportunity to let those stores know the magazine's special edition does not agree with Christian standards and values. Johnson suggests believers ask store managers to remove the issue altogether or at least place it out of sight of young children coming through the stores. Also, he adds, "It's important to tell the manager you're a regular shopper and that you have other friends who, if they were made aware that the store is carrying this magazine, you're certain they would stand together with you." Johnson says the kind of exhibition of women as sex objects that takes place in the popular sports magazine's swimsuit issue should bother Christians, because that is the starting place for the lust that drives millions into eventual addiction to hardcore pornography.The road to fascism and theocracy does not involve announcing that "tomorrow we shall become a one-party state and those who disagree will be put to death." It arrives, with all apologies to Carl Sandburg, like the fog, on little cat feet.
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That Blogger is a WRITER!

The Dominionists understand how to boil a frog, too.

Feeling cozy? Water not too hot? (YET!)

"The road to fascism and theocracy does not involve announcing that "tomorrow we shall become a one-party state and those who disagree will be put to death." It arrives, with all apologies to Carl Sandburg, like the fog, on little cat feet."

I'm going to use that line.

someone in their own ass!!!!

Economic conservatives are going to discover they opened a pandora's box with these religious nuts.

I'll bet most would gladly pay a measly 3-5% more on everything they earn over $200,000 year...rather than continue to lose their civil liberties.

Edit: spelling

under Mr. Johnson's bed is a large, well-thumbed collection of old Playboys, Penthouses, etc. Those who complain the loudest tend to be the biggest hypocrites.

but the seek out the seedist adult stores with peep show booths and stick their johnson through the glory hole.

They came in a lot when I first opened wondering where the "lingerie models" or peep show booths were.

need to get a life (including a sex life). I'm a hetero feminist, and the only issue I have with the SI swimsuit issue is the painful thinness of a few of the models. If the Bible thumpers actually consider it pornography, than I guess they think the female form is-by itself-a sexual act. :eyes: I'm betting that none of these goons have ever been to Europe; the billboard advertisements in the Metro stations alone are far more sexual than the SI swimsuit shots!

for being "the starting place for the lust that drives millions into eventual addiction to hardcore pornography."

I never would have guessed
<sigh>

If that were true wouldn't almost every American Male be "addicted" to pornography? And you know they say that once you're into it, you need harder and harder stuff....

So, I guess my store should be stocked with mostly Heavy Hardcore S&M porn.... Instead of the Vivid 4hour comps which fly off the shelves.

Their HATE SPEECH PROPAGANDA should be banned because it incites violence. Inciting violence is the line where free speech stops. The Harm Principle

-- necrophilia issue...

You can't say we don't tackle tough issues in Amuricah...

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And don't try to foist your prudery on everyone else.

Yours?

Bush tells them to look over there, "oh the humanity" (or oh the nudity) and they all collectively look while Bush takes money from their pockets and protections from their planets and rights from their democracy...and in good little lemming like fashion they look the other way and become outraged at the distractions all the while praising him as a Christian and a patriot.

:crazy:

Have we all forgot?

The swimsuit issue is often shot against beach backdrops, with models frolicking in the surf or draped on the sandy shoreline.

We all know who lurks in the ocean and occasionally washes up with the rushing tides...

...SPONGE BOB!!!!

For the love of all that is holy, hide your eyes!!!!

It's not just scantily-clad women, it's the imminent threat of gay cartoon sponges.

Oh the humanity!!!!!!!!

i subscribed to SI (hey, i had a job, money to blow, and loved sports) My parents got to the mailbox before me on the day that it was supposed to arrive. You'd have thought that there was a Penthouse in there from the reation of my mother...
i wound up having to see it in my High School library instead... :)

If fundies had their way, they'd ban anything resembling sexuality. It doesn't surprise me. To them...... Naked bodies = Bad..... Death Penalty = Good........ (never quite figured that one out, with all of the "thou shalt not kill" stuff)

Pharisees!

other years just backround noise...Fucking prudish, uptight assholes, trying to shove THEIR religion down everyone else's throat's!!!

If these morans keep getting what they want, we'll be back to wearing buckles on our hats and burning witches.

tried to pretend.