Keeping gays as second class citizens and/or re-criminalizing gay relationships is only a part of the Christianist agenda to force all citizens to comply with the Christianists' extremist religious views. This new effort against Marriott should be convincing evidence that "protecting marriage" is only the beginning of the true Christian Taliban agenda: banning contrception, banning heterosexual cohabitation, banning gay rights, including religious doctine in public education, etc. Every Marriott I have ever stayed in has a very simple method whereby room guests can bar adult movies from being viewed in their rooms if the guest so desires. Any parent who wants to safeguard against their children seeing an adult movie has an easy and ready remedy. Hence, this is not an effort to "protect" children and any claim that it is constitutes another disingenuous intentional lie - one of the hallmarks of AFA (which markets "ex-gay" know for a fact to be frauds) and the other groups attacking Marriott. Rather this attack on Marriott is an outright effort to censor what other consenting adult citizens can view in the privacy of their hotel room. Don Wildmon, James Dobson, Richard Land and Tony Perkins are some of the biggest liars in the country - sadly, the mainstream media never calls them on their blatant intentional dishonesty. Here are highlights from 365gay.com (http://www.365gay.com/Newscon08/04/041108prn.htm):
(Tupelo, Mississippi) Several conservative groups, including the American Family Association, are asking Marriott International Inc. to stop giving hotel guests the option of ordering pay-per-view movies with strong sexual content - gay and straight. AFA, based in Tupelo, said 47 "pro-family leaders'' have signed a letter asking chain's chief executive, J.W. Marriott Jr., for a meeting to discuss their concerns. Marriott was told that stopping ``porn movies'' would be in keeping with the corporation's position of ``promoting the well-being of children and families,'' AFA said in a news release.
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Conner said Marriott and most hotel chains offer in-room entertainment that includes a wide range of films and ``just one of those is adult offerings.'' ``Every guest can quickly and easily block out just the adult movie offering by either calling the front desk or using their (TV) remote pad in the room,'' Conner said. ``It does not appear at all if the guest does not want the offering.''
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Among those participating in the letter to Marriott, according to AFA, are James Dobson, chairman of Focus on the Family; Tony Perkins, president of Family Research Council; Richard Land, president of the Southern Baptist Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission; Bishop Harry Jackson, chairman of High Impact Leadership Council; and Robert Peters, president of Morality in Media.
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Of course, the other reason for this action is that Messrs. Wildmon, Dobson, Land, Perkins, et al, are addicted to porn and therefore have to have temptation removed so that they cannot give into their illicit desires to see some hot straight sex and/or some hot m2m action. Just another possibility.
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