By Prudence Beecher
Special to YNOT
CLEVELAND – For years now, social conservatives like myself have been trying to raise awareness about the dangers of porn, promiscuity, homosexuality, Harry Potter books and Mexicans, lobbying our elected officials to do something, anything, to address these scourges that have debilitated and debased this once-great nation.
Sadly, for many of those same years, the Republican Party has merely given lip-service to such concerns, promising swift and decisive action every four years, then summarily ignoring our cries for decency whenever the party obtains the Oval Office.
I’m happy to report this sad, cyclical charade is about to end, because the GOP has made it clear once its new standard bearer Donald Trump has been inaugurated in January of next year, the party is finally going to get serious about the threat to national security presented by pornography.
Echoing the words of the wise and learned Utah Legislature, the 2016 Republican platform properly identifies porn as a public health crisis that urgently needs to be addressed with every available instrument of national power.
“Pornography, with his harmful effects, especially on children, has become a public health crisis that is destroying the life of millions,” the platform states. “We encourage states to continue to fight this public menace and pledge our commitment to children’s safety and wellbeing.”
Amen, my GOP brethren, amen!
Some of you might be wondering how seriously you should take the GOP’s commitment to fighting the creeping menace of pornography, seeing as how Mr. Trump has previously lent his significant talents to certain softcore pornographic displays like the Miss Universe pageant and proudly displays on the wall of his office the cover of a Playboy magazine in which he was interviewed.
Other cynics will undoubtedly point out there have been anti-pornography planks in the platform of the Republican party going back to the 70s, but aside from the Reagan Administration, Republican Presidential candidates have been a little gun-shy about actually taking on the porn industry once elected.
This time will be different because Donald Trump is different. How many other serious Christians do you know who would refer to the Book of 2nd Corinthians as “two Corinthians,” for example?
What the media and Trump haters interpreted as liturgical cluelessness was really just Mr. Trump’s way of relating to the common man, many of whom don’t know the difference between the Corinthians referenced in the Bible and the kind of leather found in Chryslers favored by Ricardo Montalban. And besides, everybody knows the whole incident was Tony Perkins’s fault anyway.
Even some of the people who favor strong action against the porn industry probably aren’t convinced Trump can do anything about the problem of online porn, but this is another area in which Trump’s outside-the-box thinking is going to pay dividends.
Whether he decides to build a big, beautiful firewall, declare a trade war against Pornhub or send armed drones into the San Fernando Valley, I have faith Trump will find a way to get the job done.
Another reason I’m certain soon-to-be President Trump will take real action against pornography is his strong stance in favor of reining in the First Amendment, the scope of which has gotten completely out of control.
Any reasonable person understands the Founding Fathers never meant the First Amendment to be a license to distribute dirty magazines and disgusting hardcore porn videos, just as they never meant for it to allow people to criticize a man of Trump’s stature and public profile.
In fact, I’m sure if we could dig them up, reanimate and interview them, each Founding Father would tell us the Washington Post is terrible, full of dummies and a collective hater of Trump. For that matter, I wouldn’t be surprised to learn every single member of its editorial board is a Mexican, especially that Stephen Stromberg guy.
Prudence Beecher is a devout Christian, mother of seven, needlework expert and anti-pornography activist from Anniston, Ala. She is also the author of several fine e-books, including Does Hillary Clinton Eat Babies? I’m Just Asking Questions Here and the best-selling commentary on the American legal system Almighty God: The Only Judge Who Isn’t A Secular Liberal Activist.
