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FAITH CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP CHURCH,
Senator BARRY GOLDWATER, Blue Ash, OH, September 13, 1985. Senate Commerce Committee, Washington, DC.
DEAR SENATOR GOLDWATER AND MEMBERS OF THE COMMERCE COMMITTEE: I respectfully
request that the sermon 1 entitled, Don't Let Them Do It, Daddy, containing
important statistical data regarding pornography and audio pornography, as well as
the attached petition, be added into the hearing record on behalf of the Faith Christian
Fellowship Church. In addition, as a member of the Citizens Concerned For
Community Values and as participants in the National Coalition Against Pornography,
we ask that you stand against the dissemination of this material to the youth of our nation.
Audio pornography has easy availability and we desire that a corrective and restraints
be applied, so tha [sic] the moral eyesight of our youth will not be gouged out.
The corrupting influence of pornography in all of its forms degrades human life and
results in deviant behavior. Responsible leadership cannot neglect this important
area of our national life.
Love, the highest form of sanity, demands that we protect our most important natural resource–the young people of this great country, who will represent our
nation in future years. Therefore, it is our sincerer [sic] prayer that you wil repond [sic] and
stop this hideous seduction.
Sincerely,
Rev. R. EDGAR BONNIWELL, M.Div., Th.M.
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION,
Hon. JOHN C. DANFORTH,Washington, DC, September 16, 1985. Chairman, Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, Washington, DC
DEAR SENATOR DANFORTH: I am writing to express the concern of the American
Civil Liberties Union regarding your upcoming September 19 hearing on proposals
to label sound recordings with some form of rating system or disclaimers to indicate
their contents.
In our view, it is inappropriate for a committee of the United States Congress to
serve as a set of official music critics or to evaluate the content of lawfully produced and distributed material. Virtually every newspaper, magazine, and network talk
show has chronicled the efforts of the Parents Music Resource Center and other
groups to "warn" parents of lyrics which they claim present offensive ideas about
sex, violence, rejection of parental authority [,] substance abuse, or the occult. Although
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The sermon was retained in the Committee files.
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