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Princeton Professor Calls On Five Largest Hotel Chains To Block Access To Pornography To “Re-Stigmatize” Porn

Princeton University jurisprudence professor Robert P. George has launched a campaign to pressure the five top hotel chains to block access to pornography to “re-stigmatize” the industry. George is the McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and Director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University. His view of a free and pluralistic society is strikingly different from my own. While George discusses his deep Catholic faith and fears for the morality of his neighbors, he believes that the solution is deny millions of travelers the right to choose their entertainment each year at these hotels.


George insists that pornography is harmful on multiple levels from destroying the lives of participants to destroying the American marriage. He insists that “Pornography is part of a larger phenomenon that’s rooted in the fundamental misunderstanding of sexuality.” Of course, that “misunderstanding” is based on his understanding of sexuality and morality. He has found an ally in Islamic scholar Shaykh Hamza Yusuf who also wants hotels to dictate what travelers will watch — or at least not watch — to satisfy his own religious and social views.

Their letter is being presented not as a boycott but a “moral appeal.” This moral appeal, however, seeks to get hotels to force their moral views on millions of others. The appeal asks the CEOs of the hotel to think of the participants in these films as their own daughters and wives.

George notes that “We are old-fashioned enough to believe that an appeal to conscience will sometimes do the job, that everything’s not money.” “Old fashioned” is one way to put it. Most of us view it as good old time morality codes which we have struggled to leave behind in favor of individual choice. We live in a pluralistic society where individuals are allowed to make their own decisions — whether it is to participate or watch such forms of entertainment. What do you think?

Source: Catholic Newsas first seen on ABA Journal

33 thoughts on “Princeton Professor Calls On Five Largest Hotel Chains To Block Access To Pornography To “Re-Stigmatize” Porn”

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  2. martingugino 1, August 7, 2012 at 4:28 pm

    We all recognize the difference between morality and legality. Few argue against the idea of morality or that people should be free to advocate for it as they understand it. This is the academic freedom aspect of the first amendment, which allows speech short of immanent lawless action.
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    martingugino,

    Do you know how to speak with specificity? I don’t think you do.

    You’re the kind of scum that makes people think lawyers don’t deserve the air they breath.

  3. We all recognize the difference between morality and legality. Few argue against the idea of morality or that people should be free to advocate for it as they understand it. This is the academic freedom aspect of the first amendment, which allows speech short of immanent lawless action.

  4. Law schools are too expensive. They hire too many schmucks who cannot try a lawsuit and look dumb in the suits that they wear. The expense of the no nothing lawyers fronting themsselves off as Professors is driving the cost out of sight. I would not want a lawyer who was a student of this schmuck.

  6. The dogs in the dogpack want to know why they call this religion Catolics? Do they lick cats?

  7. One of the periodicals on Professor George’s bookshelf bears a suspicious resemblance to my August issue of “Buxom Babes in Bondage”.

  8. “… he believes that the solution is deny millions of travelers the right to choose their entertainment each year at these hotels.”

    What’s this country coming to? Someone wanting to deny millions of travelers their right to watch pornography and masturbate in their hotels. Some nerve huh. All those poor millions of travelers that need to rub one out should have a right to.

    o.O

  9. Raff,

    It’s always been a presumption that the biggest complainers are the very ones guilty of the acts complained about……

    Matt,

    I did not know that…..

  10. Never trust a schmuck in a suit who has two first names, the second one being his Christian name. No porn in the hotel room? How is the old artFay gonna get ready for the hooker?

  11. A female dog is known by the appellation: itchinBay. Yet one cant call a spade a spade on this blog. The Princeton law professor needs a new job. He should teach cats to stop fighting in alleys. The very word “porn” should be censored on this blog. Some of us just exist to complain.
    -itchinBayDog.

  12. A lot of professors, particularly in law, have their heads bent all the way around and are lodged in theiir uttbays.
    igLatinDog. sitting in for BarkinDog and itchinBayDog. Only a law professor would censor a hotel room or a blog. Everything in Moderation. Including Moderation.

  13. Elsie DL: “I wonder how much research into porn it took for this professor to come to his conclusion?”
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    Lol, either none or a lot, a whooooole lot. I don’t know which would be more sad.

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