I can't beleive there is actually debate on what the "conservative" view of the porn buisness is.Is there any doubt that they overwhelmingly think it's bad and destructive of what they view as the moral foundation of America and the world? I just laugh and shake my head when I read posts here from so-called conservatives (your into porn, your not a good conservative lol and they would tell ya so).
Here is just one link that explores their activities on the subject of pornography.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/porn/special/politics.html
"Back in the late 1980s and early 1990s, under Republican presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, the federal government went on the offensive against pornography. Then came a Clinton administration that had different priorities. To what extent did the new political environment permit the explosive growth of the porn industry during the 1990s? And how much was due to technological and cultural forces beyond any administration's control? This is where the politics of porn gets complicated."
Feb. 7, 2002
Last May, Janet LaRue, who serves as director of legal activities at the Family Research Council, joined a dozen or so fellow conservative leaders at the Department of Justice on Pennsylvania Avenue. There, in John Ashcroft's private conference room, LaRue, her colleagues, and the attorney general of the United States chatted for an hour or so about hardcore pornography. "He was very attentive, took his own notes, listened, asked good questions," recalls LaRue. "Mr. Ashcroft," she notes approvingly, "reaffirmed his commitment to enforce all of the federal laws on obscenity."
For LaRue -- and for the others in the room, including such veteran anti-pornography activists as Bruce Taylor of the National Law Center for Children and Families, Tom Minnery of Focus on the Family, and Beverly LaHaye of Concerned Women for America -- the meeting with Ashcroft was a watershed. For nearly a decade, they had watched the American pornography business undergo a massive expansion. Not only had porn deluged the Internet and seeped into mainstream movies and TV shows, the adult industry was increasingly (if quietly) being embraced by the corporate world.
For years they had tried to get the Clinton Administration to try and stanch the flow of porn -- starting with purveyors of "hardcore" adult films, which became enormously popular during the 1990s -- under federal obscenity laws. (Legally speaking, all "obscenity" is illegal, but not all porn is necessarily "obscene.") Few prosecutions resulted. "They lent lip service, you know, 'Gee, thank you for the information,'" recalls LaRue. "It was a tragedy," says Patrick Trueman, a former Justice Department prosecutor. "They really did nothing."
Now, Trueman hopes, things will change. During the 2000 presidential campaign George W. Bush promised to "vigorously enforc[e] federal anti-pornography laws," and once in the White House he appointed Ashcroft -- a champion of the religious right -- to head up the nation's law-enforcement apparatus. Sometime soon, they hope, the Justice Department will deliver on President Bush's promise, beginning to actively prosecute new obscenity cases for the first time since Bush's father was in office. With the Justice Department preoccupied with the war on terrorism, "a lot of the industry people, at least, think that the heat's off," says Taylor. "The porn lawyers, the pornographers -- they're counting on institutional paralysis to keep them in business. I hope they're in for a big surprise."
