Restrict Web access in private settings, too
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By Timothy Dooling, Rock Island | Saturday, April 26, 2008 |
I appeared at a Rock Island City Council meeting to call upon the city to pass an ordinance to require private organizations to restrict minors from Internet access to harmful material as defined by Illinois law. The proposed ordinance would apply to all organizations other than schools and libraries that have programs for minors.
There are currently state laws proposed or on the books in Illinois that require schools and libraries to take affirmative steps to prevent minors from accessing Internet pornography.
At a follow-up council meeting, I was criticized by the mayor after a local church claimed that the First Amendment’s separation of church and state rule would be violated by such an ordinance.
With all of the discussion these days of the sexual abuse of minors in religious contexts, I find it hard to believe that any legitimate church would be opposed to such a law. But one in Rock Island is.
Someone please explain to me the religious purpose in exposing minors to sites with names including rape or sexual perversion?
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