During the past week there have been several media reports about the damage caused by exposure to pornography.

This means that it is crucial that we marshal as many emails, letters, and phone calls to politicians as possible, right away.

Please forward this to your friends! Pornography is now, at least briefly, a "hot topic" and any letters written will be looked on as "public outcry" and therefore will carry more weight.  Right now, you have the chance to speak out for so many that feel like you do but will not take the time to communicate with their representatives.

Pray that God will show Himself strong in our behalf.  Please join your prayers with ours that He will open the doors for us to walk through and the we will continue to be guiided by Him.

Here are the articles:

1.  Writing in the Sydney Morning Herald on 7 December, Porn and Domestic Violence, New South Wales Police Assistant Commissioner Mark Murdoch warns, "Pornography is fueling an increase in the number of young people committing acts of domestic violence.  The high use of pornography by young men in astounding...  the highest users are aged between 14 and 25.  Common sense would tell you that there has to be a linkage between pornography."

Murdoch, the corporate spokesman on domestic violence for the New South Wales Police, says porn use among our young men is "the fastest growing part of the problem of domestic violence".  Shocking!

The Campbell Newman government in Queensland refuses to protect children from unrestricted access to the display, sale and perusal of Penthouse magazine.  You can contact him and ask him to please place ALL porn magazines in the Sunshine State in a "Restricted" category.  Thinking humans agree that Penthouse is NOT a children's magazine.

Thanks to God's intervention, using your activism, this has already been accomplished in Tasmania and Victoria.  Priase God! If you live in NSW, SA, or WA, please write to your MPs.  You can find your politician's contact details here.  Let's protect ALL children, all across Australia.

2.  The ABC just reported on the devastating rise in the number of pre-schoolers sexually assaulting other pre-schoolers.  These sexual assaults are learned behaviour.  The children are not learning this behaviour from Mickey Mouse comic books, they are learning it from pornography.  We have allowed our children's culture to become so sexualised and pornified that thay are simply doing what children are trained from birth to do - imitate adult behaviour.  Dr Reg Bailey in the Bailey Report for the United Kingdom Education Department says our children do not stand a chance.  He rightly says our children's "environment is wallpapered with pornography".  Shame on us!

3.  The UK government has a proposal before their Parliament that all who want X rated, pornographic material from their Internet Service Provider (ISP) must request it, they have to Opt-in.  This is a great idea and answers all the concerns about censorship etc.  If you want it, apply for it, simple as that.  Ask Tony Abbott to better protect Australians from mostly unwanted X rated porn on their computers and their children's computers to enact similar legislation.  Please do not let him say it cannot be done, the UK is doing it and China and some other countries allow NO X Rated on their Internet.  Click to ask our Prime Minister for opt-in legislation for porn.

4.  Even the Washington Times reports Pornography use affects ‘real’ relationships

Simply put, as has been confirmed by Australian law enforcement professionals, Supreme Court Magistrates, Crown Prosecutors, high ranking Academics,social scientists and others, porn causes the rape of our women and the sexual molestation of our children.

A SAMPLE LETTER can quote any of the articles referenced in this email.  Short letters are very effective.  Just get the point across.

Dear _______

I was [disturbed, concerned, appalled, etc] to read the damage caused by pornography in [mention article].

Will you please see to it that our children [young people, families] in [your State] are protected from pornography [magazines, internet, so-called "soft porn" eg Penthouse]?

Please reply.  My [friends, church, playgroup, office, extended family] have also expressed concern and all feel the same way.

5.  Outback Aboriginal stations, specifically between Kalgoorlie and Alice Springs, see the porn merchants trolling through the communities peddling their wares.  They reportedly get the credit card numbers from the residents and every month a new batch of hard core X Rated porn DVDs show up from Canberra or Darwin.  These are then shown to all the children who are then coerced into the behaviour depicted.  Not only that but the poor Aboriginal women do not stand a chance in competing with the airbrushed imagery of the White Man's porn.  Aboriginal research consultant Judy Atkinson, we have reporteted on and quoted her in the past, is mentioned in the latest official report on the rise of sexual horrors being commit committed against our indigenous people.

Our close friend Dr Judith Reisman has studied indigenous societies throught the world.  She says pornography is the latest toxin to enter the Aboriginal population.  "Toss in porn", this world renown expert warns, "and every young boy and girl becomes a walking target for the most vile abuse that exists within that culture." We are witnessing this exact phenomenon in our Aboriginal communities today! This latest report simply proves this point.  Your politician's contact details are here on our website.  Write to them, especially Mr Abbott, (under our Constitution the Federal Government rules the Territories!) and ask for the same simple restrictions to be placed on X-Rated material in the Territories as already exist in ALL our States.

A SAMPLE LETTER re X-rated material in the Territories (please use your own words):

Dear _______

I was [disturbed, concerned, appalled, etc] to read the damage caused by X-rated pornography in the Territories.

Will you please see to it that our children [young people, families], especially in the NT, are protected from the damage caused X Rated pornography?

Does it [It doesn't] make sense for X Rated to be banned in all of our States yet [freely, widely] available in the Territories? [.]

Please reply.  My [friends, church, playgroup, office, extended family] have also expressed concern and all feel the same way.

We can make, and are making, and have made a significant difference but NOT by being silent.  This is a Winnable War but it must be fought to be won!

We must, for the sake of our children and grandchildren, speak into our culture in this area as God directs us.  Dietrich Bonhoffer said to sin by silence, when we should protest, makes cowards out of men.  Let us be cowards no longer.

Jack
c/o Grove PO
Grove, Tasmania 7109

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We not only encourage Christians to be "salt" and "light", but provide credible strategies for doing so.  One of our specific goals is the removal of pornography from the family marketplace where children have access.

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