Supreme Court allows anti-p*** law to die, and, Dr. Dobson recalls interview with Ted Bundy

By: Chris Johnson

” … Pornography can reach out and snatch a kid out of any house today. It snatched me out of my home 20, 30 years ago. I’ll tell you, there are lots of other kids playing in streets around the country who are going to be dead tomorrow and the next day and the next day and next month, because other young people are reading the kinds of things and seeing the kinds of things that are available in the media today. …” Ted Bundy interviewed by Dr. James Dobson – twenty years ago today —

Supreme Court allows anti-porn law to die

Quoting from the Grand Rapids Press – January 22, 2009

“Washington — A long drive to shield children from sexually explicit material on the Web ended in failure Wednesday when the Supreme Court let a 10-year-old anti-pornography law die quietly.

In striking down the law on free-speech grounds, judges said parents can protect their children by installing software filters on computers.

But fewer than half of parents do so, Bush administration lawyers had argued in an effort to revive the law.

Anti-pornography activists said the court’s action, coming a day after President George W. Bush left office, signaled an end to the government’s bid to restrict pornography on the Web. …”
[Taken from Grand Rapids Press, January 22, 2009]
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Personal note

This, though it was predicable given the continued cultural, moral political decline, does not bode well for our country’s moral/spiritual future.

One of America’s leaders in regard to the fight against pornography has been and is Pat Trueman. Pat, many of you may recall, headed the Child Exploitation and Obscenity Enforcement Section at the Justice Department in Washington DC during the Reagan and George H. Bush administrations.

Pat commented in the above article in the following way:

“‘The timing puts an exclamation point on it. There’s very little reason for hope on this issue,’ said Patrick Trueman, a Virginia lawyer who headed the Justice Department’s anti-pornography unit from 1988 to 1993. ‘I don’t think Congress will try again to protect children from pornography…'”

I point you again to a Fox News Show you may want to watch or have recorded for viewing later. It is the Glenn Beck Show on Fox News at 5:00 pm eastern time. Glenn Beck will be interviewing Dr. James Dobson.

Dr. Dobson recalls his interview with serial killer Ted Bundy who linked so-called soft-core pornography available at some convenience stores with sex crimes.

Using Dr. Dobson’s words in an email that Focus on the Family sent yesterday:

Friday, January 23, is a historic day for Focus on the Family®–and for me personally. It will be 20 years ago that I sat down across from convicted serial killer Ted Bundy for his final interview before he was executed in a Florida state prison.

I will be sharing my recollections of that interview this Friday on the new Fox News Channel® series “Glenn Beck®,” which airs at 5 p.m. EST.

My purpose in going on Glenn’s show is to discuss the reason why Bundy chose me for his final interview when every major news anchor at every TV network was jostling for an exclusive conversation. Bundy wanted to talk about the role media violence and particularly violent, hard-core pornography had played in his years-long killing spree, and he knew the mainstream media wouldn’t report that story.

He chose to tell his story to me because he knew of my work in the mid-’80s on the Attorney General’s Commission on Pornography, which studied its harmful effects on individuals and society. During our hour-long conversation, Bundy took care not to blame his murderous actions on his addiction to pornography–but made clear it played a significant role in his crimes.

“Pornography can reach out and snatch a kid out of any house today. It snatched me out of my home 20, 30 years ago,” he told me on January 23, 1989. “I’ll tell you, there are lots of other kids playing in streets around the country who are going to be dead tomorrow and the next day and the next day and next month, because other young people are reading the kinds of things and seeing the kinds of things that are available in the media today.”

Sadly, Bundy was right. Pornography has been found in the possession of almost every killer where sex has been the motivation, including two of the most notorious serial killers of the last two decades: Green River Killer Gary Leon Ridgway and BTK Killer Dennis Rader. No, not everyone who uses pornography becomes a murderer, but there are serious consequences to pornography addiction. Studies done since my conversation with Bundy have documented corrosive effects on marriages and families, such as increased marital distress and risk of separation and divorce; decreased marital intimacy and sexual satisfaction; and a devaluation of monogamy, marriage and child-rearing.

Consider also that Bundy’s comments were made before the Internet age and the easy availability of the most sickening kinds of pornography on the Web. He also spoke at a time when hotel porn and even cell-phone porn were not the problems they are today. The future predicted by Ted Bundy is worse than he ever could have imagined–and that’s the main message I hope to get across in my time with Glenn Beck this Friday.

I do hope you will tune into the show–and will continue to partner with Focus on the Family in fighting the scourge that is pornography.

Sincerely,
Dr/ James Dobson
Founder and Chairman
Focus on the Family

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On the home front –

By popular demand, we are showing “Fireproof” two more times on this very day.

Matinee – this afternoon
2:00 pm

Tonight, Friday, January 23, 2009
At 7:00 pm at 203 E. Main Street, Fremont, Michigan

“Fireproof”
(at the first showing on New Year’s Eve, we had 125 in attendance)
(at the second showing on New Year’s Eve there were 50 in attendance)
(last Friday night, 145 were in attendance)

Personal note in closing:

First, regarding “Fireproof.” This movie is a must see if there ever was one. Some are indicating they would like to see it again.
Others are saying they would like to come and bring a friend(s). It isn’t available for release in DVD until January 27.

There is really something very special about seeing this kind of powerful Christian movie in community!

Please join us in praying that this will be another evening where God is glorified and His people are encouraged to live for Him!

Yours in Christ’s service,
Bill Johnson, president
American Decency Association

The movie is free.
Refreshments will be available.
Child care will be provided.

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To donate online:
https://americandecency.org/folder.php?f=donate

American Decency Association
Bill Johnson, President
P.O. Box 202
Fremont, MI 49412
ph: 231-924-4050
https://americandecency.org

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