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Ten Ways to Combat Pornography

1. Become knowledgeable about the issues concerning pornography. This can be accomplished by reading and reviewing current literature and tapes on the subject. We strongly recommend that you become familiar with the findings and recommendations in the report by the Attorney General's Commission on Pornography.
2. Call and write those who are responsible for enforcing laws against crime. Included in this group of people are sheriffs, police chiefs, prosecutors and your state's attorney general. Tell those and any other officials that you oppose pornography and want anti-obscenity laws to be vigorously enforced as recommended by the Attorney General's Commission on Pornography. Talk to your friends, relatives, co-workers, fellow church members, etc., and ask them to convey similar views to these officials.
3. Write and call those who hold elected positions in city or county government, such as your mayor and the members of your city and county councils. Express your views against pornography and ask them to seek vigorous enforcement of laws and ordinances against obscenity. If existing laws or ordinances are weak, ask those officials to pass stronger ones. Get friends and acquaintances to make similar requests.
4. Write your governor and state legislators and ask them to seek revision of state anti-obscenity laws so that they are as strong as allowed by the stated and federal constitutions. Refer especially to the recommendations by the Attorney General's Commission on Pornography in this regard. Ask them to contact appropriate law enforcement officials and demand vigorous enforcement of laws against obscenity. Ask others to write as well.
5. Write the President, Attorney General, your Congressman or Congresswoman and U.S. Senators. Ask them to strengthen federal laws against pornography. Also ask them to contact such enforcement agencies as the Department of Justice, Customs Bureau and the U.S. Postal Service and demand intensified efforts to enforce federal laws against obscenity as recommended by the Commission on Pornography.
6. Write representatives of the news media and "letters to the editor" about your views against pornography. Include the truth that obscenity is not protected by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution any more than libel or slander are forms of protected speech.
7. Initiate a petition to public officials, stating your concern and disapproval of the public display and sale of pornography - films, video cassettes, books and magazines. Solicit the support for petitions among your friends, neighbors, church members, civic and school groups.
8. Use this step-by-step procedure and strategy in contacting neighborhood stores which display and sell pornographic materials: a. Courteously speak to the store manager and tell him that his display and sale of pornographic magazines and materials is offensive to you. Ask him to: (1) put these out of sight, and (2) seek a change in business policy which will discontinue the sale of this material. b. After a short time, if he still continues to display and sell these products, again speak to the store manager and tell him of your concern.
9. Join with others in all of your efforts. Be persistent - changing months or years of business practices takes time. So keep a positive attitude and don't become discouraged. Others have fought similar battles and won, and so can you.
10. Pray.