“Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.” – H. L. Mencken
And now comes Puritanical Marxism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere may be free.
OTTAWA, CANADA – A strange bedfellows coalition of Canadians are coming together to ban online porn. Conservative MP Joy Smith is writing a bill that would automatically block access to online pornography and she’s recruiting feminists and evangelicals in the fight. She wants to pass legislation that would force customers to contact their cable companies if they want access to pornography.
Mrs. Smith recently invited radical feminist activist Gail Dines and evangelical Julia Beazley in Ottawa to an event aimed at coming up with ideas on how to get government more involved in people’s sex lives. Dines calls herself a radical feminist and is a sociology professor at Boston’s Wheelock College, and Beazley, who founded the Stop Porn Culture group, is an Evangelical Christian.
Ms. Dines called online porn a “public health emergency situation.” She also said that the regulation of pornography is “going to happen all over the world.”
“Yesterday, I got a letter from a young boy 10 years of age telling me he was addicted to porn,” she said. “It just brought me to tears.”
Founder of peacefire.org and anti-censorship activist Bennett Haselton isn’t buying it, “In the United States and Canada and most other developed countries, an entire generation now has grown up that, for the most part, actually did have unrestricted Internet access, and they’re not mentally warped by it. There’s no evidence that they’ve been harmed by it,” said Mr. Haselton.
Ms. Beazley of the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada is eager for the government to step in and legislate her morality. “You can’t have the big picture conversation of ending sexual exploitation without talking about the role pornography plays in this,” said Ms. Beazley.
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