Do you think porn should be available in hotels, just like the Bible?

Question

Conservatives ask FBI to investigate hotel porn,
a coalition of 13 conservative groups -- including the Family Research Council and Concerned Women for America -- took out full-page ads in some editions of USA Today earlier this month urging the Justice Department and FBI to investigate whether some of the pay-per-view movies widely available in hotels violate federal and state obscenity laws.

Take out all Bibles as well, I'm an Atheist and think it is part of a multi-level market scam!!! Brainwashing the world books should not be in hotel rooms.

Answer 1

Just another idiot trying to get some press. He must be running for re-election. Really who cares? Just like the Bible keep the drawer shut. It is not like you turn on the TV and you see people having sex. You have to request it. Some people have nothing better to do I guess then attack issues which have no substance like unemployment, high gas prices or the war in Iraq.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

I am not a Christian, and I always wondered why the many people who are NOT religious Christians must have the Christian bible shoved down their throats.
And it's not just a matter of "If you don't want to read it, don't open it". Having the bible there, like having a blanket, pillow, soap, towels, and other necessities in the room, makes a statement that the bible is a necessity for everyone.
Well, it's not.

Likewise, is porn a necessity of life? No, it is not. If people want porn, let them go find it themselves. Why promote it? Is this a value that we hold so high? I think not.

Out of respect for all those people who are not religious Christians, hotels should stop placing bibles in the drawer.

And since porn is neither a necessity, nor a something held in high esteem by the majority of society, it should not be available in hotel rooms either.

Answer 4

Bibles have been placed in motel rooms and hotel rooms for years. I believe it was the Gideon society who founded the practice. They placed them in the rooms free of charge, for the comfort and solace of travellers away from their homes. Nowadays you sometimes find Buddhist scriptures in the hotel/motel rooms as well, one presumes for the comfort of Buddhists.

You're an atheist, you say, so why should you care whether there are Bibles in the bedside drawers or desks of rooms, or Buddhist scriptures, or the Quran, for that matter.

I don't know whether the FRC and CWA and others should have asked for this investigation or not. To me, it's like computer porn. Just don't go there. Just don't turn on the pay per view. But for families travelling together who want to protect their kids or themselves even from that temptation, the concern is great enough they have asked for help in this area.

I personally think there are entirely too many investigations going on about too many things altogether, but your lack of belief in God neither constitutes the truth nor the falsity of God.
It's just your belief and opinion. I find the outright animosity of atheists to anything to do with the Bible fascinating, but I do find your last statement to be inflammatory. The Bibles are placed in the motels/hotels as a service, and funded by the group from their own gifts to their own society of businessmen who want those who want to read the Bible to have that opportunity. And I am wondering, just what is your experience with the Bible that makes you so strong in your hatred of it?

Maggie

Answer 5

I agree that if you take out porn from hotels that you should also take out the Bibles and holy books put in the drawers.

But I'm pretty sure last time I was in a fancy hotel that I saw that you could order porn on the TV.

Answer 6

I've never read the Bible in a hotel room or watched a porn movie. Both are boring I know how the story will end. If hotels want to please people like me they should have anthologies of short mystery stories in the rooms. Novels are too long for one night and would be stolen. Or any kind of short fiction people like. Romances, sci-fi, people who are going to try to finally get thru Finnegan's Wake on vacation can bring their own copy.

Answer 7

Anita, it is a shame that you are incapable of separating your emotional bias against theism from the reason that led you to atheism.

Your anger here is misplaced. If the hotel porn does violate the legal standards of obscenity, then they should be removed. That is the law. However, your anger should be at the law itself, not against those seeking an enforcement of the law.

Either campaign for an end to obscenity laws, or campaign for banning literature. But when citizens demand that the law be enforced, you should not be angry at them. If you do not like the laws they call on to be enforced, then be angry at those laws. That is the reasonable approach to the situation.

Answer 8

When I stay in a hotel with my family, I do not want to see porn. (Normally when I stay in a hotel with my family, all we do there is shower, sh*t & sleep anyway)

From the perspective of the hotel industry, though, which boycott do you think would hurt them the most-the few poeple who would not stay because the Gidons donated a Bible or the Christians who would not stay because of porn?

I'm guessing this is a non-issue anyway.

Answer 9

Well you know what, I think you're right. So why don't we appoint you as the official "Bible-Ridder" and your job can be to just go around to every hotel in the world and go into every single room and swipe all the bibles. And then maybe once you've got 'em all you can have a nice book burning...

oh...you know who else burned books dontcha?

Good luck with that btw.

Answer 10

LOL......i'm sorry.....well I'm Catholic....so this is probably a little biased on my part.......but I think the availability of porn in hotels is fine. No one is forcing them to watch the porn the same way they aren't forced to read the bible which is usually hidden in a drawer. And by the way.....i'm not the only "religious" person who feels this way! You know who you are, lol :-) Good day to you all!