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Establish Your Community Standard against Obscenity
Defending the Family
for 16 years
The conversation started out, "Will you do something about the sex bars, immorality and obscenity?" As I got additional names on my application for the ballot in a Justice of the Peace race, the westside constituents demanded that my campaign -- address the daily pit-stops at the topless bars for some of our men, molestation, rape, and cultural war against the family and community. In l995, I didn't know much about the topless bars or the underground crime that supported immorality in Houston, but I went forward for the sake of morality and decency during my first election. Anyway, I needed votes and media attention to do it. And besides the attention, the Houston City Ordinance regarding the SOBs was drafted during this time and passed in l997 with our group's participation while the topless bars appealed it until April 17, 2007, when the 1500 foot rule was implemented by the City of Houston. Residents get tough with topless clubs
Since l995, the Houston Chronicle wrote political articles advising the voters on the westside, that Kristopher was a "MORALITY ACTIVITIST." As her two daughters went off to college, leaving more time to be adventurous, the liberal press had a field day -- at times with the three political campaigns and extra curricula activities. Where was Anne Coulter in those days?
HOUSTON CITY ORDINANCE
The City Ordinance is also supported by conservatives such as Republican Council member Martha Wong, and City Council candidate Karen Kristopher equates topless bars with pornography. During a City Council hearing last January she stated: read more
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United States Constitution
The United States Supreme Court has mandated in l973 that every community define the adult community standard against obscenity. Because of this legal directive, every citizen should participate in the meaning of obscenity, therein addressing various arenas in their community. Since pornography is behind every sex crime, the definition of obscenity should not be limited necessarily to the police or prosecutors, but again, developed by registered voters who will consider the safety, health, and morality of their community, thereby creating public policy. Eventually, the community standard for obscenity is further determined by the jury on any given civil or criminal court case involving obscenity. When a community is committed to morality and decency standards, family foundations are strengthened by the framer's intent from the United States Constitution. read more
Morality and Decency Conference Speakers
Noted here or click for More Speakers -- for the key factors when guiding each family or community across this country in the definition of obscenity. Obscenity and pornography are out of control, fueling those with an addiction for pornography resulting in rapes, molestation, and assaults on our girls, including our boys. read more
Our Worst Fears -- A 13-month-girl, biting on a pink plastic pacifier, sat in her uncle’s lap in a Houston courtroom Thursday and watched as a jury recommended a 50-year sentence for the man who raped her when she was 6 weeks old.” Houston Chronicle February 5, 2005. read more
 Morality in Media -- Robert Peters - Defenders of hardcore pornography say that the widespread availability of this material is proof that communities now accept it. If that were true, no jury could ever find any sex material to be obscene—because to be obscene sexual material must violate community standards. But as the Supreme Court noted in Hamling v. United States, 418 U.S. 87, at 125-126 (1974): read more
 Test for Obscenity Today -- The basic three prong test for determining whether visual or written works are obscene material is as follows:
Whether the average person, applying contemporary adult community standards, would find that the work, taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest (i.e., an erotic, lascivious, abnormal, unhealthy, degrading, shameful, or morbid interest in nudity, sex, or excretion); and read more
Focusing on Solutions -- Whether TV, movies, videos, music, magazines, fatherless homes, technology, sexual exploitation, or the Internet is transforming the experience of growing up in America, the job of being a parent has also been transforming over our children. read more
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