Opinion

Our law requiring age verification for pornography websites is working

Late last year, the General Assembly passed legislation that required pornographic websites to verify the age of those visiting the site. We didn’t want anyone under the age of 18 to have access to such content. This was a commonsense measure, and I was proud to help get it across the finish line. Our message...

Amy Galey

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Opinion

New age-verification law for online porn will protect NC children

Children in North Carolina are being targeted by the porn industry on a daily basis. The NC General Assembly has passed several pieces of good legislation that address obscene materials children are allowed to access in schools and at public venues. One piece of legislation that passed recently is a bill addressing pornographic materials children...

Neal Jackson
Opinion

End the free pass for schools, libraries on exposing children to graphic content

North Carolina’s child obscenity laws make it illegal to disseminate obscene materials to minors. However, the law shields schools and libraries, making them exempt from the prohibition on obscenity. It’s because of these exceptions that activist librarians have been able to stash graphic pornography with erotic content on shelves in youth sections. There’s been a...

Laura Macklem
Opinion

Book bans are dangerous. Curating age-appropriate school material is not.

Book bans have been a real problem in history, typically by totalitarian governments — whether Marxist, fascist, theocratic, or otherwise. But parents who don’t want their young children given explicit tutorials on how to practice the latest sexual fads are not Robespierres in training. They just want the bare minimum of decency and common sense...

David Larson
Opinion

Obscenity for Fun or Salvation

This spring Bill O'Reilly, host of Fox News' "The O'Reilly Factor," devoted several segments to the obscene goings-on in a human sexualities class at the University of Kansas. Viewers were told how Prof. Dennis Dailey showed "highly explicit" material including nude images of little girls, said he understood how some could be pedophiles, held a "wheelchair sex day" in class, showed pornographic films, compared one photograph of a female's spread genitals to the Virgin Mary, and also made obscene gestures to students who demonstrated offense.

Jon Sanders