SPRINGFIELD, UT — Break out the full-sized porn star displays! Fluff the inventory! Boost the advertising budget! Give the staff a bonus! Make room for a high profile signing event! It’s White Ribbon Against Pornography month once again!In yet another attempt by yet another morality group to convince people to avoid pornography by drawing attention to it, Cindy Moreno’s Communities for Decency is once again gearing up for a month full of porncentric events custom designed to keep the minds of good Christians firmly fixated on commercial sex.
Moreno assured Provo UT’s Daily Herald that her group is collaborating with government officials in various areas including the governor’s office to make sure more people know about pornography – all in the name of vilifying it, of course.
“One of the purposes for this is it helps bring awareness… of the devastating effects of pornography,” she explained vaguely.
This year the group hopes to focus on the dangers associated with mobile phone use by teenagers. Part of that effort includes a contest wherein high school students will create billboards and slogans highlighting the risks associated with being too young to legally peruse pornography yet somehow finding it on their cell phones.
Started in 2001, the non-profit Communities for Decency aims to make both community leaders and parents more aware of how its organizers believe those in the adult entertainment industry hope to market their goods. By educating teens to police one another, Moreno believes her group can help them resist the temptation to see material deemed inappropriate for them.
“When kids are doing something, you find that they’re going to listen and pay attention when their peers are doing it,” she opined to the Herald, going on to explain how much more technically adept the young are than their elders. In order to make sure minors use their powers for good and not evil, Communities for Decency holds school assemblies designed to expose parents to the high tech methods it contends both teens and porn pushers embrace.
The way Morena sees it, somebody needs to talk to kids and parents about porn, because if it’s not a moral figure, then “somebody else is going to.”
Protective grandmother Jean Savage doesn’t think this goes far enough. In her opinion, racy advertising such as that employed in Victoria’s Secret windows is just as bad as hardcore pornography. After all, even her 2 ½-year-old grandson noticed the mannequins weren’t wearing much by way of clothing. “If we don’t talk about it and recognize it, we’re passing it on to the next generation,” she warned, urging adults to take a stand against suggestive material, which she believes has the same negative impact on communities as does pornography.
Although details about specific events are still sparse, Moreno says that several cities have signed the White Ribbon Against Pornography proclamation, which has the support of the state’s governor.
Springfield, UT City Councilman Neil Strong considers erotic materials to be an insidious evil saturating society and in need of governmental destruction. “This is an alert to the citizens of our city that we, as a mayor and City Council, will do everything we can to not introduce pornography into the city,” he assured the Daily Herald, — which makes one wonder whether the previous mayor and City Council were somehow conspiring to funnel pornography into the populace by force.
