Meet Jim Banks. The 40-year-old Republican is the U.S. Representative for Indiana’s 3rd congressional district and is currently on a crusade to rid America of pornography once and for all.
Banks, a religious freedom fighter who opposes same-sex marriage and supports the trans military ban, recently sent a letter to Attorney General William Barr imploring him to enforce existing obscenity laws he says have been ignored by the Trump administration.
The one-page letter was co-signed by three other Republican lawmakers–fellow homophobe Mark Meadows of North Carolina, religious freedom fighter Brian Babin of Texas, and Vicky Hartzler of Missouri, who threw women under the bus when she voted against the Violence Against Women Act in 2013.
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Posted by Congressman Jim Banks on Friday, December 6, 2019
“The Internet and other evolving technologies are fueling the explosion of obscene pornography by making it more accessible and visceral,” the letter states. “This explosion in pornography coincides with an increase in violence towards women and an increase in the volume of human trafficking as well as child pornography.”
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The letter, which offers no actual evidence to support its claim that pornography has caused an increase in human trafficking, violence, and abuse, goes on to say that laws “prohibit distribution of obscene pornography on the Internet, on cable/satellite TV, in hotels/motels, by retail or wholesale establishments, and by common carrier,” but that enforcement of the law ended when Obama’s first attorney general, Eric Holder, disbanded the Obscenity Prosecution Task Force.
Now, they want that task force brought back. Immediately!
“Given the pervasiveness of obscenity it’s our recommendation that you declare the prosecution of obscene pornography a criminal justice priority and urge your U.S. Attorneys to bring prosecutions against the major producers and distributors of such material,” the letter continues.
Banks and his fellow lawmakers also note that Trump signed an anti-pornography pledge as the Republican nominee in 2016.
“This asserted that, if elected, President Trump would enforce federal obscenity laws to stop the explosion of obscene pornography,” the lawmakers write. “This pledge has so far been ignored in the Trump Administration with the result that the harms of illegal pornography have continued unabated, affecting children and adults so acutely to the point that 15 state legislatures have declared that pornography is causing a public health crisis.”
Given his very strong feelings about this issue, we can only assume Banks has never, ever, ever watched porn–hardcore, softcore, amateur, anything–in his life. He’s probably also never sent a sext or asked for another person’s nudes.
Queerty put in a request to his office asking for an un-redacted copy of his personal internet browser history but we never heard back. Go figure.
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Chrisk
Wow. With this freak you just know he’s got some real scary skeletons in that closet. I’ll just never understand what goes on in a religious freaks mind. Shame and hate for others is usually at the top though.
I used to be roommates with one. He’d go on a binge and buy up a bunch of porn. Then after the J/O session the christian guilt would set in he’d throw them all away in the dumpster where I’d confiscate them. I got a nice collection from that. 🙂
bodie425
Damn, I went through that cycle myself, many many times. I’m glad I finally gave christian insanity the ‘ole heave ho!
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Yet time and time again every survey of hotels finds the highest percentage of porn viewing in the rooms is whenever there is Republican or conservative convention every single time.
Why do noxious smcubag repugnant conservatives obsess so much what goes on in other people’s bedrooms and sex lives?
Chrisk
Ha. Good point to bring up. I’d forgotten about those surveys.
Yep. This has nothing to do with violence or child sex abuse. This is about controlling others sex life as usual. If these douchebags were really concerned about abused women and child sex abuse they’d go after things that are real like taking peoples food stamps away, the catholic church, or throwing kids in cages but no care in the world about that.
Goforit
He thinks the porn that I watch is obscene. I think that the religion he professes is obscene. I contend that his religion has done far more harm to the citizenry of this nation than porn could ever do.
maleficent
amen brother…amen.. 😉
masterwill7
Bullseye!!! Perfectly written!
davantage
I can see that. He wants to pass a law to save himself. Isn’t that always the case?
john.k
No doubt he was looking at lots of x-rated stuff – for research purposes of course.
charlieeod74
If they were to start enforcing obscenity laws, that would mean Trump would have to go to jail.
Den
What always strikes me is how these people never object to the levels of violence more easily accessed, and increasingly realistic, being depicted in all media. But Christianity idolizes pain, torture and death and demonizes anything that brings real.physical pleasure.
It seems highly neurotic to me to, and more likely to damage the psyche of children that “God” became a man simply to be horribly tortured and killed. Not one of these fundies ever objected to the snuff porn of “The Passion of The Christ”, And many dragged young children to see it. And that is supposedly better for kids than seeing lovemaking!?
dustychiffon
It just seems these closeted anti-gay/secretly -suspiciously gay politicians are almost like a sub-group within our community now.
Like I remember when that Aaron Shock loser was revealing his tacky af “Downton Abbey inspired” office, thinking to myself “ohhhhhh”
God bless their trifling black hearts
Mr-DJ
Of course he won’t share his bowser information, because – you know… TRUMP!
one more thing
He has Closet Gay Face really bad…..
Hussain-TheCanadian
What the hell is a “religious freedom fighter”?
I dont think this @sshat knows what a freedom fighter is, nor do I understand why is he focusing on porn while millions in the united states are poor, hungry, sick, and abused who need help.
nmarkwb
Gee! I wonder why ??NO SURPRISE THERE ?