Pornography’s Unnoticed Victims
By: American Decency Staff
It’s seems ludicrous any longer that anyone would say that pornography is victimless. However, the politically correct narrative is exactly that. In other words, the lie goes: “What is pornographic to you may be art to someone else.”
That is a lie from the pit of hell.
One of the most vivid reminders I have of that is what occurred in October 1998. But first, let me provide this brief background.
Pro-decency activists as myself worked long and hard testifying against obscenity as we worked to strengthen Michigan’s obscenity law. This was accomplished with then Michigan governor John Engler signing the bill into law October 8, 1992.
In the process of passing this important legislation, the greatest force opposing that legislation was Rep. Perry Bullard (D- Ann Arbor) head of the House Judiciary Committee. He went to incredible lengths to oppose efforts to strengthen Michigan’s obscenity law including the development of a committee which he named the “Censorship Subcommittee.” Hearings under this bogus committee were dragged out and held throughout the state.
To make a long story short, just a few years later (after this anti-obscenity legislation was passed), this liberal politician died at the hands of the very pornography which he heavy-handedly stated was victimless.
Quoting from the Canton Observer in its October 25, 1998 edition: (Bullard had) “… apparently been engaging in an autoerotic act involving rope and other paraphernalia, according to evidence at the scene, as stated in a Canton police report. The Canton Fire Department responded and determined CPR would not be beneficial.”
Quoting from our press release, I wrote:
“Earlier news reports from various statewide newspapers had reported that Rep. Bullard had died of suffocation while alone.
Rep. Bullard was found hanging by a rope in his basement naked with sado-masochistic magazines open at his feet. He died of autoerotic asphyxia.
‘Bullard’s wife, Kelly, told police she arrived home from work around 4:40 pm. Oct. 15. After looking throughout the house, she discovered him unconscious on the basement floor and called 911.’
Mr. Bullard apparently was engaging in a masturbatory activity promoted in pornography magazines and video tapes – a technique used by those using pornography to heighten sexual excitation…
Johnson stated, “Pornography DOES destroy. Mr. Bullard is a victim of his own pro-pornography philosophy. It saddens me that Rep. Bullard didn’t see the implications that we have continually articulated – we are impacted by what we view. Socially, we are paying a heavy price for our carelessness.”
Johnson continued, “As our culture continues to give unrestrained license to sexual images and verbiage flowing freely across the airwaves and in our various media forms, we will continue to experience heightened levels of moral decay, increases in sexual deviancy, the loss of life, the lowering of community standards of decency.”[Taken from October 1998 press release of the ministry I then founded with AFA, the American Family Association of Michigan]
If I must say so myself, my words were sadly but predictably prophetic: "we will continue to experience heightened levels of moral decay, increases in sexual deviancy, the loss of life, the lowering of community standards of decency."
Are our efforts futile? Hardly.
The noted preacher/author C.H. Spurgeon answers that question:
“Waiting humbly before God, always conscious of his presence, delighting in communion with him, and seeking to know his will, you will prove that you are of heavenly race. And you should be separate from the world in your actions. If a thing be right, though you lose by it, it must be done; if it be wrong, though you would gain by it, you must scorn the sin for your Master's sake. You must have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them. Walk worthy of your high calling and dignity.”
[C.H. Spurgeon, Morning by Morning, September 11]
Some think our efforts are futile. Perhaps many do. But, many see it as we do: You must have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them. Walk worthy of your high calling and dignity.
This last week of October was once lifted up as a week to bring attention to the harm caused by pornography. In decades past many communities held “white ribbon against pornography” campaigns to bring awareness of the destruction caused by pornography. In our decaying culture, there are very few voices still raising this concern – even as the number of pornography victims grow each day.
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