1. See Loving v. Virginia, 388 U.S. 1 (1967). (The Court struck down, in a lawsuit brought by the ACLU, anti-miscegenation laws that were still on the statute books in 16 states.)
2. Lindsey Gruson, “Second Thoughts on Moments of Silence in the Schools,” New York Times, March 4, 1984, sec. 6E.
3. See for example, Thomas Jefferson, “Eternal vigilance …,” QuoteDB, http://www.quotedb.com/quotes/2283 (April 13, 2006).
4. Lawrence v. Texas, 539 U.S. 558 (2003); Romer v. Evans, 517 U.S. 620 (1996).
5. See, for example, Ashcroft v. American Civil Liberties Union, 542 U.S. 656 (2004); Ashcroft v. American Civil Liberties Union, 535 U.S. 564 (2002); Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition, 535 U.S. 234 (2002); United States v. Playboy Entertainment Group, 529 U.S. 803 (2000); Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union, 521 U.S. 844 (1997).
6. Lawrence v. Texas, 539 U.S. 558 (2003).
7. Bowers v. Hardwick, 478 U.S. 186 (1986).
8. John Bartlett, Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, ed. Justin Kaplan (Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1992), 643.
9. John Stuart Mill, On Liberty (Indianapolis: Hackett, 1978 [1859]), 73.
10. See note 6 above, 562.
11. See, for example, Nebraska Press Ass’n v. Stuart, 427 U.S. 539, 582 (1976); Smith v. California, 361 U.S. 147, 169 (1959).
12. See note 6 above.
13. See note 6 above, 590.
14. Brown v. Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483, 74s.ct. 686 (1954).
15. Planned Parenthood v. Casey, 505 U.S. 833 (1992).
16. See note 15 above, 851.
17. President, American Civil Liberties Union; Professor of Law, New York Law School. For research assistance with this Foreword, Professor Strossen gratefully acknowledges Steven Cunningham (NYLS ’99) and Brenna Sharp (NYLS ’07).
1. Obama predicted he would do this in his 2006 book, The Audacity of Hope.
2. http://pewresearch.org/pubs/971/both-mccain-and-obama-favor-expanding-faith-based-initiatives.
3. http://www.politicususa.com/en/alliance-defense-fund-attacks-law-banning-churches-from-politicking.
4. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIC_vc8YOj4.
1. http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/blog/2011/09/07/birth-control-will-create-pagan-society-based-consequencefree.
1. Hannah Brückner and Peter Bearman, “After the Promise: The STD Consequences of Adolescent Virginity Pledges,” Journal of Adolescent Health 36, no. 4 (2005): 271–78.
2. www.religioustolerance.org/abonbr.htm.
3. Judith Levine, Harmful to Minors: The Perils of Protecting Children from Sex (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2002), 90.
4. Dozens of lectures in various U.S. locales, 1980–2000.
5. Debra Hauser, “Five Years of Abstinence-Only-Until-Marriage Education: Assessing the Impact,” Advocates for Youth, http://www.advocatesforyouth.org/PUBLICATIONS/stateevaluations.pdf, 5.
6. Scott Williams, “Abstinence Becomes a Business,” Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, October 9, 2000. sec. 510(B) (abstinence-only program funding alone supports more than 700 programs nationwide); See also, Peggy Burch, “Just Say ‘Not Yet’ Lecturer Pushes ‘Sexual Revolution’—Abstinence,” The Commercial Appeal, October 14, 2000, sec. G1 (describing the “Aim for Success” abstinence-only program, a family business that runs abstinence-only education programs in schools in eight states).
7. Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States, “SIECUS State Profiles: A Portrait of Sexuality Education and Abstinence-Only-Until-Marriage Programs in the States Released Today,” SIECUS, March 23, 2005, http://www.siecus.org/media/press/press0095.html.
8. The World Health Organization and other researchers agree that, over a period of a year, about 99 percent of the uninfected partners of “always” condom users remained HIV negative. BBC News, “Condoms: The Science,” BBC News, June 27, 2004, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/panorama/3845011.stm.
9. National Center for HIV, STD and TB Prevention, Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention, “HIV/AIDS among Men Who Have Sex with Men,” July 2005. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, July 2005, http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/PUBS/Facts/msm.htm.
10. Abstinence Clearinghouse, “Take the Condom Quiz,” brochure available from http://www.abstinence.net.
11. Matt Apuzzo, “Study: Abstinence May Lead to Risky Acts,” SFGate.com, March 18, 2005, http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2005/03/18/national/a115514S47.DTL.
12. See http://www.silverringthing.com.
13. “The Pledge,” on 60 Minutes. First broadcast May 22, 2005 by CBS.
14. Ibid.
15. U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Government Reform, Minority Staff, Special Investigations Division. The Content of Federally Funded Abstinence-Only Education Programs, prepared for Representative Henry A. Waxman (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 2004), http://www.democrats.reform.house.gov/Documents/2004120110215350247.pdf.
16. Clara S. Haignere, Rachel Gold, and Heather J. McDaniel, “Adolescent Use of Condoms and Abstinence: Are We Sure We Are Teaching What Is Safe?” Health Education and Behavior 26, no. 1 (1999): 43–54.
17. Marty Klein, “Government Report: Abstinence Programs Lie,” Sexual Intelligence, January 2005, http://www.sexualintelligence.org/.
18. Of course, the whole Bush administration was anti-science: global warming, pollution, overfishing, Plan B, and so forth. In 2004, the government’s own CDC Web site ignited a firestorm with its deliberate inaccuracies about sexual health. In 2005, it even tried to appoint a veterinarian to head the Women’s Health Division of the FDA.
Today’s national Republican Party (including the Tea Party) continues this anti-science legacy.
19. Bill Frist, speech at the Health Legacy Partnership (HELP) conference, Washington, DC (October 22, 2003).
20. See note 1 above.
21. http://mathematica-mpr.net/publications/pdfs/impactabstinence.pdf
22. Professional Data Analysts, Inc. and Professional Evaluation Services, “Minnesota Education Now and Babies Later Evaluation Report 1998–2002,” as prepared for the Minnesota Department of Health, January 2004.
23. Peter Bearman and Hannah Brückner, “Promising the Future: Virginity Pledges and the Transition to First Intercourse,” American Journal of Sociology 106, no. 4 (2001): 859–912.
24. See note 1 above.
25. Marty Klein, “Virginity Pledges >>STDs,” Sexual Intelligence, April 2005, http://www.sexualintelligence.org/newsletters/issue62.html#four.
26. “For Many, Abstinence Doesn’t Work,” Sexual Intelligence, August 2003, http://www.sexualintelligence.org/.
27. Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, 22nd session. General Comment 14. The Right to the Highest Attainable Standard of Health, Paras. 12(B), 16 and Note 8, 2000, http://hrw.org/reports/2002/usa0902/USA090207.htm#P729_181328.
28. www.aolnews.com/2010/04/07/wis-da-threatens-arrest-for-local-sex-ed-teachers/. See also http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/90020507.html.
29. http://www.whec.com/article/stories/S2246779.shtml?cat=0?video=YHI&t=a.
30. http://www.familiesaretalking.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=Feature.showFeature&FeatureID=2034.
31. Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, 22nd session. General Comment 14. The Right to the Highest Attainable Standard of Health, Paras. 12(B), 16 and Note 8, 2000, http://hrw.org/reports/2002/usa0902/USA090207.htm#P729_181328. General Comment 24(52), General Comment on Issues Relating to Reservations Made Upon Ratification or Accession to the Covenant or the Optional Protocols Thereto, or in Relation to Declarations Under Article 41 of the Covenant, U.N. Human Rights Committee, 52nd sess., 1989, para. 11; and General Comment 14. The Right to the Highest Attainable Standard of Health, Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, para. 12(b) and note 8.
32. See General Comment 14. The Right to the Highest Attainable Standard of Health, Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, paras. 12(b), 16 and note 8.
33. General Comment 24(52), General Comment on Issues Relating to Reservations Made Upon Ratification or Accession to the Covenant or the Optional Protocols Thereto, or in Relation to Declarations Under Article 41 of the Covenant, U.N. Human Rights Committee, 52nd sess., 1989, para. 11.
34. Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, “HIV/AIDS and Human Rights-International Guidelines” (from the Second International Consultation on HIV/AIDS and Human Rights, Geneva, September 23–25, 1996), U.N. Doc. HR/PUB/98/1, Geneva, 1998, para. 38(h).
35. “Conclusion,” in Ignorance Only: HIV/AIDS, Human Rights and Federally Funded Abstinence-Only Programs in the United States, Human Rights Watch 14, no. 5 (September 2002), http://hrw.org/reports/2002/usa0902/USA0902-08.htm#P796_199849.
1. Jerry Falwell, “The Moral Majority Coalition,” Jerry Falwell Ministries, http://www.falwellsecure.com/libertyalliance/otgh/.
2. http://www.alliancedefensefund.org/Home/ADFContent?cid=4690.
3. http://www.myfoxhouston.com/dpp/news/politics/100209-texas-constitution-governor.
4. CWA Mission Statement, http://www.cwfa.org/content.asp?ID=18226.
5. http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/ken-cuccinelli-hosting-concerned-women-america-fundraiser.
1. The Planned Parenthood Federation of America, “The Assault on Birth Control and Family Planning: Executive Summary” (New York: The Planned Parenthood Federation of America, 2003), 2.
2. Senator Richard Durbin speaking on the floor of the Senate on the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003, March 11, 2003, S3469.
3. As Pope Benedict said in his first encyclical, “Monogamous marriage” is on a par with “the image of a monotheistic God.” The pope notes that “marriage based on exclusive and definitive love becomes the icon of the relationship between God and his people and vice versa.” Heterosexual romantic love is described as “the one in particular [that] stands out [from all other love] … where body and soul are inseparably joined and human beings glimpse an apparently irresistible promise of happiness.” See, Rocco Palmo, “The Surprising Message Behind ‘God Is Love,’ ” Beliefnet, 2006, http://beliefnet.com/story/184/story_18403_1.html.
4. “Evangelicals and STDs,” SexInfo, http://www.soc.ucsb.edu/sexinfo/?article=stds&refid=039.
5. It also raises the standard of living for entire countries. See the ongoing work of International Planned Parenthood Federation (http://www.plannedparenthood.org) and the Alan Guttmacher Institute (http://www.guttmacher.org/).
6. Shulamith Firestone, The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution (New York: Morrow, 1970).
7. Although the Catholic hierarchy had trouble accepting test-tube babies at first, and a few radicals still reject artificial insemination.
8. K. Greenwood, and L. King, “Contraception and Abortion,” in Women in Society, ed. Cambridge Women’s Studies Group (London: Virago, 1981).
9. Patricia Spallone, “Reproductive Technology and the State: The Warnock Report and its Clones,” in Made to Order: The Myth of Reproductive and Genetic Progress, ed. Patricia Spallone and Deborah Lynn Steinberg (Oxford: Pergamon), 173–74.
10. Ann Friedman, “Over-the-Counter Insurgency,” Mother Jones, November 29, 2005, http://www.motherjones.com/news/update/2005/11/planb_timeline.html.
11. James Dobson, “HPV Epidemic Plagues Young People,” Focus on the Family, uExpress, January 12, 2003, http://www.uexpress.com/focusonthefamily/index.html?uc_full_date=20060108.
12. Ibid.
13. Marty Klein, “FDA Bad-Mouths Condoms,” Sexual Intelligence, December 2005, http://www.sexualintelligence.org/newsletters/issue70.html#four.
14. Associated Press, “Debate Ranges over Condom Labeling,” FOXNews.com, June 29, 2005, http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,160981,00.htm.
15. Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, “Vatican Continues to Debate Condom Use to Prevent HIV Transmission, Church Leaders, Theologians Say,” The Body: The Complete HIV/AIDS Resource, March 22, 2004, http://www.thebody.com/kaiser/2004/mar22_04/vatican_condoms.html.
16. http://www.guttmacher.org/statecenter/spibs/spib_MWPA.pdf.
17. http://www.guttmacher.org/media/inthenews/2011/07/13/index.html.
18. Boonstra HD et al., Abortion in Women’s Lives (New York: Guttmacher Institute, 2006).
19. B. Major et al., Report of the Task Force on Mental Health and Abortion, American Psychological Association, Task Force on Mental Health and Abortion, 2008, Washington, DC, http://www.apa.org/pi/wpo/mental-health-abortion-report.pdf.
20. The Planned Parenthood Federation of America, “Planned Parenthood Sues to Protect South Dakota Women,” Planned Parenthood, June 6, 2005, http://www.plannedparenthood.org/pp2/portal/media/pressreleases/pr-050606-abortion.xml.
21. http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/MandatoryCounseling.pdf.
22. http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/03/free-speech-hypocrisies-of-pro-lifers/72868/.
23. Guttmacher Institute, State Policies in Brief, “Mandatory Counseling and Waiting Periods for Abortion,” Guttmacher Institute, May 1, 2006, http://www.guttmacher.org/statecenter/spibs/spib_MWPA.pdf.
24. Center for Reproductive Rights, “2005 Mid-Year Report,” Center for Reproductive Rights, 2005, http://www.crlp.org/st_leg_summ_midyear_05.html.
25. http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/fb_induced_abortion.html.
26. R. K. Jones and K. Kooistra, “Abortion Incidence and Access to Services in the United States, 2008” Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health 43, no. 1 (2011): 41–50.
27. Ibid.
28. The Abortion Access Project, “Fact Sheet: The Shortage of Abortion Providers,” The Abortion Access Project, http://www.abortonaccess.org/newpages.php?id=6.
29. http://www.catholicsforchoice.org/topics/healthcare/documents/2005factsaboutcatholichealth care.pdf.
30. http://www.mergerwatch.org/ec-in-the-er/ about the NON-use of EC in ERs for rape victims.
31. Megan Cooley, “Catholic Hospitals Refuse Patients Contraception,” Women’s eNews, February 4, 2003, http://www.womensenews.org/article.cfm/dyn/aid/1209.
32. http://www.catholicsforchoice.org/topics/healthcare/documents/2002secondchancedenied_001.pdf.
33. B. A. Robinson, “Abortion and Roman Catholic Hospital Mergers,” ReligiousTolerance.org, December 8, 2000, http://www.religioustolerance.org/abo_rcc.htm.
34. http://www.stlouisreview.com, August 30, 2002.
35. San Jose Mercury-News, October 13, 2011, P.B6.
36. Gary Heinlein, “Bill Would Ban Over-Counter Sales of Morning-After Pill: As FDA Examines Nonprescription Sales of Drug, a State Lawmaker Aims to Ward Off Its Widened Use,” Detroit News Online, November 25, 2005, http://www.det-news.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051125/POLITICS/511250337/1003/METRO.
37. The Unborn Victims of Violence Act (also known as “Laci and Conner’s Law”), signed into law by President George W. Bush on April 1, 2004.
38. According to studies by the FDA and National Abortion Federation, there are no known long-term risks associated with using mifepristone and misoprostol. Feminist Women’s Health Center, “The Abortion Pill: Mifepristone and Misoprostol for Early Abortion,”Feminist Women’s Health Center, October 25, 2005, http://www.fwhc.org/abortion/medical-ab.htm.
39. Lynn M. Paltrow, “Prison or Rehab: What Is the Best Place for a Pregnant Woman Using Illicit Drugs?” ReconsiDer: Forum on Drug Policy, http://www.reconsider.org/asp/biography.asp?SpeakerID=1501;Ferguson v. City of Charleston, 532 U.S. 67 (2001).
40. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jun/24/america-pregnant-women-murder-charges.
41. http://www.personhoodusa.com/what-is-personhood.
42. Guttmacher Institute, State Policies in Brief, “Refusing to Provide Health Services,” Guttmacher Institute, February 1, 2006, http://www.guttmacher.org/statecenter/spibs/spib_RPHS.pdf.
43. Adam Sonfield, “New Refusal Clauses Shatter Balance between Provider ‘Conscience,’ Patient Needs,” Guttmacher Report on Public Policy 7, no. 3 (August 2004), http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/tgr/07/3/gr070301.html.
44. http://aksarbent.blogspot.com/2011/10/nebraska-social-workers-want-referrals.html.
45. Adam Sonfield, “New Refusal Clauses Shatter Balance between Provider ‘Conscience,’ Patient Needs,” The Guttmacher Report on Public Policy 7, no. 3 (August 2004), http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/tgr/07/3/gr070301.html.
1. http://www.drjudithreisman.com/archives/2005/12/senate_subcommi.html.
3. http://commerce.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?p=Hearings&ContentRecord_id=e8088f9f-d8d2-4e82-b012-46337c6f9456&Statement_id=d744db10-1a94-4899-a3ea-fcf5cf0d6493.
4. http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2008/07/20/abducted/?page=full.
5. http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2009/05/07/39152/robertson-child-molestation/.
1. Brent Bozell, Parents Television Council, http://www.parentstv.org/ptc/community/speech.htm.
2. In Lawrence v. Texas, 539 U.S. 558 (2003).
3. “Dick Cavett and Comedy on the Streets,” San Jose Mercury News, May 4, 1994. Also at http://www.bookreporter.com/community/quote/02-09.asp, at September 1.
4. Advocates for Youth, “European Approaches to Adolescent Sexual Behavior & Responsibility,” Advocates for Youth, 2006, http://www.advocatesforyouth.org/news/events/stdytour.ht
5. For a non-nude example of a sexy European TV commercial that would not be aired in America, see http://www.break.com/cute-girls/WTF-European-Commercial-387387.html.
6. The Parents Television Council, “Comedy Central Roast Brings Unspeakable Vulgarity into Two-Thirds of American Homes,” PTC Insider 7, no. 10 (October 2005) http://www.parentstv.org/ptc/publications/insider/2005/October.pdf.
7. The 60th Annual Golden Globe Awards, first broadcast January 19, 2003 by CBS. Directed by Chris Donovan and Al Schwartz.
8. See Timothy Taylor, The Prehistory of Sex (New York: Bantam, 1997).
9. Mary Calderone, conversation with author, spring 1987.
10. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lt70kMn7O9s.
11. Butler v. Michigan (1957).
12. The whole question of what the relevant “community” is in the Internet age now begs for a different, modern answer. See http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/24/technology/24obscene.html and http://www.lawrencewalters.com/site-articles/digital-age/.
13. Michael Scherer, “The FCC’s Cable Crackdown,” Salon.com, August 30, 2005, http://archive.salon.com/news/feature/2005/08/30/fcc_indecency/index_np.html.
14. Robert Corn-Revere, “Can Broadcast Indecency Regulations Be Extended to Cable Television and Satellite Radio?” Progress on Point 12, no. 8 (May 2005), http://www.pff.org/issues-pubs/pops/pop12.8indecency.pdf.
15. Censorship crusader Senator Ted Stevens (R-AK), among others, is using the same justification to restrict programming on cable TV. See his congressional “decency” hearings, for example, March 11, 2005, http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/n/a/2005/03/01/national/w141707S29.DTL.
16. Motion Picture Production Code of 1930, articles 1, 2, and 3, www.artsreformation.com/a001/hays-code.html.
17. James R. W. Bayes, Kathleen A. Kirby, and Martha E. Heller, “Third Circuit Court of Appeals Revisits Earlier Decision on Media Ownership Rules,” Wiley Rein & Fielding LLP, October 2004, http://www.wrf.com/publication_newsletters.cfm?ID=11&year=2004&publication_ID=9525&keyword=].
18. Marjorie Heins, personal e-mail to author, April 17, 2006. See also her media democracy fact sheet at http://www.fepproject.org/factsheets/mediademocracy.html.
19. Kevin J. Martin, Letter to Parents Television Council concerning f-word decision, December 5, 2003, http://www.parentstv.org/PTC/fcc/2003/martin-letter2.htm.
20. http://www.theorator.com/bills108/hr3717.html.
21. Michael Hayes, “Bush Signs Indecency Bill, Fines for Broadcasters Increase Tenfold,” Xbiz News, June 16, 2006, http://xbiz.com/news_piece.php?id=15545.
22. Notable exceptions are Emancipation, Prohibition, and criminalizing contraception.
23. James Poniewozik, “The Decency Police,” Time Archive, March 28, 2005, http://www.time.com/time/archive/preview/0,10987,1039700,00.html.
24. Jeff Jarvis, “The Shocking Truth About the FCC: Censorship by the Tyranny of the Few,” BuzzMachine, November 15, 2004, http://www.buzzmachine.com/archives/2004_11_15.html.
25. http://www.janetjacksonflash.com/.
26. http://www.parentstv.org/PTC/news/release/2009/0220.asp.
28. Todd Shields, “FCC Hires Conservative Indecency Critic,” Mediaweek, August 8, 2005, http://www.mediaweek.com/mw/news/recent_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001010563.
29. Penny Nance, on Fox News Live with Bob Sellers, July 19, 2004. See http://www.mediamatters.org/items/200407200005.
30. See note 28 above.
31. Ibid.
32. Ben Scott, http://www.americanprogress.org/site/pp.asc?c=biJRJ80VF&b=480225.
33. New York Times, December 30, 1969.
34. http://www.parentstv.org/ptc/familyguide/main.asp.
35. Ben Charney, “Janet Jackson Still Holds TiVo Title,” CNETNews.com, September 29, 2004, http://news.com.com/Janet+Jackson+still+holds+TiVo+title/21001041_35388626.html.
36. CNN Newsnight Aaron Brown, “Debate over FCC Guidelines,” CNN.com, November 17, 2004, http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0411/17/asb.01.html.
37. For example, see the mission statement of Morality in Media, at http://www.moralityinmedia.org/.
38. The video is produced by the We Are Family Foundation. http://www.wearefamilyfoundation.org/; “SpongeBob, Barney Promote ‘Gay’ Agenda? 61,000 Schools to Receive ‘We Are Family’ Video with Lesson Plan,” WorldNetDaily, January 6, 2005, http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=42253.
39. Cary Wiggins, http://meetingthesinlaws.com.
40. Personal communication, October 17. 2011.
41. See note 13 above.
1. Rob Garver, “The Family Research Council Says Anti-clerical Judges Pose a Greater Danger Than Al-Qaeda,” The American Prospect Online Edition, April 13, 2005, http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?section=root&name=ViewWeb&articleId=9499.
2. “Chapter VII. Discrimination Based on Gender and Sexual Orientation,” in Ignorance Only: HIV/AIDS, Human Rights and Federally Funded Abstinence-Only Programs in the United States, Human Rights Watch 14, no. 5 (September 2002), http://hrw.org/reports/2002/usa0902/USA090206.htm.
3. National Abortion Federation, “Bush’s Strategy to Restrict Reproductive Freedom: A Chronology,” National Abortion Federation, 2005, http://www.prochoice.org/policy/national/bush_strategy.html.
4. Advocates for Youth, “Will the Politics of Teen Sex Stop a Cancer Vaccine?” Advocates for Youth, 2005, http://www.advocatesforyouth.org/publications/cancervaccine.htm.
5. Tad Walch, “Family Group Draws BYU into Porn Fray,” DeseretNews.com, September 25, 2003, http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,515034237,00.html.
6. Ken Tucker, “Station Pulls Keillor for ‘Offensive Content’,” Billboard Radio Monitor, August 12, 2005, http://billboardradiomonitor.com/radiomonitor/news/business/net_syn/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001014255.
7. Parents Television Council, “Frequently Asked Questions,” Parents Television Council, 2004, http://www.parentstv.org/PTC/faqs/main.asp#Arent%20you%20violating%20First%20Amendment%20percent20freedoms%20by%20censoring%20TV%20shows
8. Daniel Weiss, “Porn Feeds Human Trafficking,” DenverPost.com, January 27, 2006.
9. Jerry Falwell, “The Moral Majority Coalition,” Jerry Falwell Ministries, http://www.falwellsecure.com/libertyalliance/otgh/.
10. House Government Reform Committee, Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, Drug Policy and Human Resources, CDC’s Human Papillomavirus (HPV) and Cervical Cancer Prevention Activities, March 11, 2004.
11. Brian Skoloff, “Ave Maria Co-Founder Backs Off Moral Stance,” HeraldToday.com, March 5, 2006, http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/news/local/14019307.htm?source=rss&channel=bradenton_local.
12. “President Bush Signs Unborn Victims of Violence Act of 2004: Remarks by the President at Signing of the Unborn Victims of Violence Act of 2004,” The White House, April 1, 2004, http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/04/200404013.html.
13. CNN Larry King Live, “Debate over Gay Marriage,” CNN.com, January 17, 2006, http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0601/17/lkl.01.html.
14. “U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Judge Samuel Alito’s Nomination to the Supreme Court, Part II of II,” WashingtonPost.com, January 9, 2006, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/09/AR2006010901016.html.
15. Nick Farrell, “Watching Web Porn Is ‘Cheating’,” VnuNet.com, June 12, 2002, http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2119054/watching-web-porn-cheating.
16. Abstinence Clearinghouse, “First Lady Laura Bush Endorses Abstinence,” Abstinence Clearinghouse, January 18, 2006, http://www.abstinence.net/library/index.php?entryid=2480.
17. Diane, “Culture of Fear, Culture of Death,” ToughEnough.org, May 22, 2005, http://toughenough.org/2005/05/culture-of-fear-culture-of-death.html.
18. Morality in Media, et al., Letter to President George W. Bush re Supreme Court nominee, July 14, 2005, http://www.obscenitycrimes.org/news/Bush_letter_re_Sup_Ct_nominee_(Jul05).pdf.
19. Tom Strode, “Life Digest: Mass. To Promote Destructive Stem Cell Research; Calif. Reconsiders Assisted Suicide; S.D. Pro-Life Bills Now Law,” BPNews.net, April 4, 2005, http://www.bpnews.net/bpnews.asp?ID=20511.
20. “Is Sex Ever Really ‘Safe’?” Focus on the Family, http://www.troubledwith.com/stellent/groups/public/@fotf_troubledwith/documents/articles/twi_013892.cfm?channel=Parenting%20Teens&topic=Sexual%Activity&sssct=Background%20Info.
21. Oppose Censorship in Omaha, “Censorship in Omaha,” Oppose Censorship in Omaha, January 2005, http://www.omaha-neb.com/censorship.html.
22. Nicholas A. Jackson, “Public Libraries, the Left, and the Corruption of Children,” The Conservative Voice, August 8, 2005, http://www.theconservativevoice.com/articles/article.html?id=7377.
23. Jane Lampman, “Churches Confront an ‘Elephant in the Pews’,” The Christian Science Monitor, August 25, 2005, http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0825/p14s01-lire.html.
24. “The Pledge,” in 60 Minutes, first broadcast May 22, 2005 by CBS.
25. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdeIZmg2Sxw.
26. http://thefire.org/spotlight/codes/220.html.
27. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/03/11/national/main605394.shtml.
28. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-R0GYhsX-o8&NR=1.
29. http://moralityinmedia.org/full_article.php?article_no=45.
30. http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/kern-doubles-down-claim-homosexuality-more-dangerous-terrorist-attacks
31. http://www.damemagazine.com/dame-daily/features/f261/AlabamavsDildos.php?PageId=1.
32. http://www.personhoodusa.com/press-release/ohio-reaches-first-milestone-personhood-amendment-drive
33. http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0411/53314.html.
34. http://www.texastribune.org/texas-politics/2010-texas-governors-race/gov-rick-perry-on-abstinence-sanctuary-cities
35. http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-homosexual-agenda-americas-greatest-immediate-threat
36. http://caffeinatedthoughts.com/2011/10/interview-with-rick-santorum-a-champion-for-the-family-manufacturing-jobs/
37. http://articles.latimes.com/2008/nov/05/nation/na-scotus5.
38. Peter Lattman, “Justice Alito’s Thank-You Note to James Dobson,” The Wall Street Journal Online, March 2, 2006, http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2006/03/02/justice-alitos-thank-you-note-to-james-dobson/.
1. The federal government also spent millions of dollars on such operations in 2005; for example, on pursuing and prosecuting Edward Wedelstedt of Littleton, Colorado, for operating a chain of adult video arcades. See http://www.freespeechcoalition.com/wedlestedtsentenced1.htm.
2. Larry Walters, personal phone call with author, October 14, 2011.
3. City of Erie v. Pap’s A.M., 529 U.S. 277 (2000).
4. Officials in San Bernardino, California, are trying to blur the distinction between prostitution and erotic dancing in an obvious attempt to close local strip clubs. The local district attorney alleges that women dancers are having sex with each other in front of men who pay to watch, which he says is prostitution. Since the California Penal Code describes prostitution as “any lewd act between persons for monies or other considerations,” this legal strategy could actually succeed; Marty Klein, “Carpal Tunnel Censorship?” Sexual Intelligence, August 2000, http://www.sexualintelligence.org/newsletters/issue06.html#carpal.
5. San Antonio, Texas. See Marty Klein, Sexual Intelligence: An Electronic Newsletter, Issue 59, January 2005, www.SexualIntelligence.org/newsletters/issue59.html#five.
6. Renton v. Playtime Theatres, 457 U.S. 41 (1986).
7. Dissenting in Boos v Berry, 485 U.S. 312 (1988).
8. Three years later, Antonin Scalia said the same thing in attempting to uphold Texas’s ban on sodomy in Lawrence v Texas, 539 U.S. 558 (2003).
9. The Free Expression Policy Project, “Fact Sheet on Sex and Censorship,” The Free Expression Policy Project, http://www.fepproject.org/factsheets/sexandcensorship.html.
10. Flanigan’s Enterprises, Inc. v. Fulton County, GA, 00-11152, 11th Circuit, February 20, 2001.
11. City of Los Angeles v. Alameda Books, 535 U.S. 425 (2002).
12. S.B. No. 27 Sec. 4301.25 Section 3, http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/bills.cfm?ID=126_SB_27.
13. http://www.kmbc.com/news/29107173/detail.html#ixzz1b03KMB1e.
14. Mark Kernes, “The Myth of Secondary Effects,” Free Speech Coalition, http://www.freespeechcoalition.com/Myth_of_Secondary_Effects.htm.
15. “Canadian Court Lifts Ban on ‘Swingers’ Clubs,” MSNBC.com, http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10561253.
16. Richard Enrico, personal conversation with author, Fall 1989.
17. City of Erie v. Pap’s A.M., 529 U.S. 277 (2000).
18. http://www.ccv.org/About_CCV.htm.
19. Citizens for Community Values Web site/promotion.
20. For more on Burress’s opportunistic collaboration with Karl Rove, see Chapter 14.
21. http://www.uaprogressiveaction.com/archives/2006/02/irs_delivers_wa.html.
22. Private correspondence with attorney, October 14, 2011. Name of attorney on file.
23. Val Walton, “ABC, Club Square Off over Topless Dancer Ban,” al.com, November 1, 2005, http://www.al.com/news/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/base/news/113084029965690.xml&coll=2.
1. George Lakoff, Don’t Think of an Elephant (New York: Chelsea Green Publishing Company, 2004).
2. Marty Klein, Sexual Intelligence, Issue 30, August 2002, http://www.sexualintelligence.org/newsletters/issue30.html#five.
3. Newsweek, July 18, 2011, p.60.
4. Nicholas A. Jackson, “Public Libraries, the Left, and the Corruption of Children,” Conservative Voice, August 8, 2005, http://www.theconservativevoice.com/articles/article.html?id=7377.
5. Jan LaRue, “Let’s End ‘Victims of Pornography Month,’ ” Morality in Media, Inc., 2004, http://www.moralityinmedia.org/index.htm?obscenityEnforcement/EndVOP-Month.htm.
6. Alan Leshner, personal conversation with author, June 3, 2003.
7. Robert Rector and Kirk A. Johnson, “Teenage Sexual Abstinence and Academic Achievement,” The Heritage Foundation, October 27, 2005, http://www.heritage.org/Research/Welfare/whitepaper10272005-1.cfm, at footnote 1.
8. Steven Ertelt, “Planned Parenthood Abortions Increase, Now 20 Percent of U.S. Total,” LifeNews.com, December 12, 2005, http://www.lifenews.com/nat1900.html; “Trends in Abortion in the United States, 1973–2002,” The Alan Guttmacher Institute, January 2003, http://www.guttmacher.org/presentations/trends.pdf; Ceci Connolly, “Number of Abortion Providers at Its Lowest in Three Decades,” The Tech, January 22, 2003, http://www-tech.mit.edu/V122/N65/Abortion.65w.html.
9. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, “Everyone has a right to…,” BrainyQuote, http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/d/daniel_patrick_moynihan.html.
1. See Timothy Taylor, The Prehistory of Sex (New York: Bantam Books, 1996); and James Petersen and Hugh Hefner, The Century of Sex (New York: Grove Press, 1999).
2. Source for this list, unless noted, is Cindy Kuzma, “Sex and Technology: A Brief History” Planned Parenthood Federation of America, May 13, 2005, http://www.ppfa.org/pp2/portal/files/portal/webzine/artsculture/art-050513-sex-technology.xml.
3. Peter Johnson, “Pornography Drives Technology: Why Not to Censor the Internet” Indiana Law, 1997, http://www.law.indiana.edu/fclj/pubs/v49/no1/johnson.html.
4. See note 2, discussed in a phone call with LibidoMag editor Jack Hafferkamp, December 29, 2006.
5. WorldScreen.com, “TV Data: North America,” WorldScreen.com, 2002, http://www.worldscreen.com/northamerica.php; See also note 3 above.
6. Oblivious to how these sexual uses made the now-valuable technology feasible for mass adoption in the first place.
7. David Sobel, “Internet Filters and Public Libraries,” First Amendment Center Publication 4, no. 2 (October 2003),11, http://www.FirstAmendmentCenter.org/PDF/InternetFilters.pdf.
8. Center for Democracy & Technology, “Pennsylvania Web Blocking,” Center for Democracy & Technology, 2004, http://www.cdt.org/speech/pennwebblock/.
9. For more information, see Bennett Haselton, Peacefire.Org, 2006, http://www.peacefire.org/.
10. “Internet Filter Review,” TopTenREVIEWS, 2006, http://Internet-filter-review.toptenreviews.com/.
11. Bennett Haselton, e-mail to author, January 15, 2006.
12. Robyn Greenspan, “Porn Pages Reach 260 Million,” eSecurityPlanet.com, September 25, 2003, http://www.esecurityplanet.com/trends/article.php/3083001.
13. Jonathan Wallace, “Federal Courts Use Censorware; Free Speech Advocates Object,” The Censorware Project, 1998, http://censorware.net/reports/courtcen.html.
14. Karen Jo Gounaud, “Kids and the Internet: The Promise and Perils,” Testimony to the U.S. National Commission of Libraries and Information Science, Family Friendly Libraries, http://www.nclis.gov/about/November-1988.pdf, page 105.
15. Sobel, 10.
16. Sobel, 9. According to their Web site, Family Friendly Libraries is affiliated with Focus on the Family and the Family Research Council.
17. Sobel, 10.
18. “A Briefing on Public Policy Issues Affecting Civil Liberties Online.” Center for Democracy & Technology Policy Post 9, no. 12 (June 23, 2003), http://www.cdt.org/publications/pp_9.12.shtml.
19. Only California, New York, and Maine reject this federal money—specifically because they don’t want Washington controlling their libraries.
20. U.S. v. ALA, 539 U.S. 194 (2003).
21. U.S. v. ALA, 539 U.S. 194, No. 02–361 (2003).
22. Will Doherty, “Sex and the Internet” (presentation to the Society for Scientific Study of Sexuality, San Jose, CA, April 12, 2003).
23. Doherty, “Sex and the Internet.”
24. Bennett Haselton and Jamie McCarthy, “Blind Ballots: Web Sites of U.S. Political Candidates Censored by Censorware,” Peacefire.org, November 7, 2000, http://www.peacefire.org/blind-ballots/.
25. See note 13 above.
26. Doherty, “Sex and the Internet.”
27. Greg Lindsay, “Cybersitter Decides to Take a Time Out,” TIME Digital, August 8, 1997, http://web.archive.org/web/20000830022313/http://www.time.com/time/digital/daily/0,2822,12392,00.html.
28. Doherty, “Sex and the Internet.”
29. Xeni Jardin, “MSN Spaces: Seven Dirty Blogs,” Boing Boing, December 2, 2004, http://www.boingboing.net/2004/12/02/msn_spaces_seven_dir.html.
30. United States of America V. Robert Alan Thomas and Carleen Thomas, F. App. 0032P (6th Cir.), Nos. 94-6648/6649 (1996), Electronic Privacy Information Center, http://www.epic.org/free_speech/censorship/us_v_thomas.html.
31. See note 18 above.
32. “A Briefing on Public Policy Issues Affecting Civil Liberties Online,” Center for Democracy & Technology Policy Post 10, no. 14 (September 10, 2004), http://www.cdt.org/publications/pp_10.14.shtml.
33. 18 U.S.C. §2257.
34. See note 32 above.
35. http://articles.cnn.com/2009-04-07/justice/sexting.busts_1_phillip-alpert-offender-list-offender-registry?_s=PM:CRIME.
36. http://www.petaluma360.com/article/20110816/COMMUNITY/110819615/1362?tc=ix
1. Despite terrorism, the miserable economy, and a crumbling infrastructure and education system, many people still cite homosexuality, abortion, teen sexuality, and pornography as America’s central problems.
1. Barton Gellman, “FBI Forms Anti-Porn Squad; ‘I Guess This Means We’ve Won the War on Terror,’ One Agent Says,” SFGate.com, September 21, 2005, http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/09/21/MNGRSER4141.DTL&type=printable.
2. Ibid.
3. The case was ABFFE v. Coakley; I was one of the plaintiffs.
4. A key informant in this illegal bullying was Donald Wildmon, head of the then-new Religious Right pressure group, National Federation of Decency, which is now known as the powerful American Family Association. See Marjorie Heins, Sex, Sin, and Blasphemy: A Guide to America's Censorship Wars (New York: New Press, 1998), 70.
5. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melissa_Farley.
6. http://cybersolidaires.typepad.com/files/complaint-to-apa-against-mfarley.pdf.
7. http://www.afa.net/Detail.aspx?id=2147484055.
8. Jan LaRue, “What Are the U.S. Attorneys Doing for Victims of Pornography?”Victims of Pornography, 2004, http://www.victimsofpornography.org/Articles%20in%20The%20News/Articles%20in%20the%20News.htm.
9. Traditional Values Coalition, “The Plan to Win over Judicial Tyranny,” Our Battle Plan to Take Back Our Courts, 2006, http://www.ourbattleplan.com/plan.php.
10. For example, on February 6, 2006, police seized more than 700 adult DVDs from Dr. John’s Lingerie in Omaha, Nebraska, claiming they had reason to believe that some of the store’s inventory violated state obscenity laws. “Dr. John” Haltom himself was victimized by a number of raids at his store in Omaha, resulting in him serving several jail terms. See “Censorship in Omaha,” Oppose Censorship in Omaha, January 2005, http://www.omaha-neb.com/censorship.html.
11. http://www.wired.com/politics/law/news/2005/08/68433 and http://www.taxfoundation.org/blog/show/1200.html.
12. “ASACP Data Indicates 99.9% of Validated CP Reports Are Not Related to Adult Entertainment Industry,” Association of Sites Advocating Child Protection, ASACP, June 24, 2005, http://www.asacp.org/press/pr062405.html. http://www.asacp.org/whitepaper/ASACP-whitepaper-9-10-2010.pdf.
13. http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/08/the-legislation-that-could-kill-Internet-privacy-for-good/242853/.
14. As common as these allegations are, not a single one has ever been proven.
15. Nadine Strossen, Defending Pornography: Free Speech, Sex, and the Fight for Women’s Rights (New York: Anchor Books, 1995), 299.
16. Such as the price of gasoline, the convenience of banking online, the luxury of not feeling uncomfortable at the beach, and the comfort of not being faced with too many questions about sexual things from one’s children.
17. http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2004/11/65772.
18. American Library Ass’n. v. Thornburgh, 713 F. Supp. 469 (D.D.C. 1989).
19. Civil action 05-CV-01126-WDM-BNB.
20. 983 F.2d 248, 250 (DC Cir. 1990); 965 F.2d 8484 (10th Cir. 1992).
21. See note 11 above.
22. Eugene Volokh, “Obscenity Crackdown—What Will the Next Step Be?” CATO Institute, April 12, 2004, http://www.cato.org/tech/tk/040412-tk.html.
23. From the government’s subpoena, reported in Howard Mintz, “Feds After Google Data,” MercuryNews.com, January 19, 2006, http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/13657386.htm.
24. Gonzales v. Google, Inc. (2006), can be found at “The Internet and the Law,” Find Law, http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/google/gonzgoog11806m.html.
25. Cameron W. Barr, “Policing Porn Is Not Part of Job Description: Montgomery Homeland Security Officers Reassigned after Library Incident,” WashingtonPost.com, February 17, 2006, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/16/AR2006021602066.html.
26. I am indebted to Alan Soble for a remarkable discussion of this concept in his book. Alan Soble, Pornography, Sex, and Feminism (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2002).
27. See also Marty Klein, “The Meaning of Sex,” http://sexed.org/archive/article03.html.
28. That’s one part of what makes obscenity trials so bizarre. A jury of strangers sitting fully clothed in a conference room watches porn to determine what it means to the so-called average person (whoever that is). How can their experience possibly relate to the experience of watching the film at home, in private, naked, playing with a consenting partner or masturbating alone?
29. Personal conversation with Web site owner “Igor,” September 1, 2011.
30. As sex educator Dr. Sol Gordon used to say, “guilt can provide the energy for the repetition of behavior people feel conflicted about.”
1. In America, various indecency statutes still criminalize blasphemy and moral turpitude. At least the punishments involve fines and prison rather than death
2. Dan Bilefsky, “Denmark Is Unlikely Front in Islam-West Culture War,” NY-Times.com, January 8, 2006, http://select.nytimes.com/search/restricted/article?res=FA0D12FC34540C7B8CDDA80894DE404482.
3. BBC News, “Mass Anti-Cartoon Rally in Beirut: Hundreds of Thousands of Shia Muslims in Lebanon Have Turned a Religious Ceremony into a Protest over Cartoons Satirising the Prophet Muhammad,” BBC News, February 9, 2006, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4697286.stm.
4. See http://www.personhoodusa.com.
5. Planned Parenthood v. Casey, 505 U.S. 833 (1992).
6. Richard John Neuhaus, “A Voice in the Relativistic Wilderness: The Pope Crusaded For “Moral Truth.” We Should Welcome His Help,” ChristianityToday.com, April 4, 2005, http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2005/109/44.0.html.
7. Ibid.
8. Richard Owen, “Limbo Consigned to History Books,” Times Online, November 30, 2005, http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,135091897480,00.html.
9. Boethus says this in his The Consolation of Philosophy; see Kenneth Humphreys. “Putting the Dark into the Dark Age: ‘Wonderful Events That Testify to God’s Divine Glory,” Jesus Never Existed, 2004, http://www.jesusneverexisted.com/dark-age.htm; for Tertullian, see David King, “Chapter 9: Religion,” in A Guide to the Philosophy of Objectivism, http://rous.redbarn.org/objectivism/Writing/DavidK-ing/GuideToObjectivism/CHAPTR09.HTM.
10. “President Bush Signs Unborn Victims of Violence Act of 2004: Remarks by the President at Signing of the Unborn Victims of Violence Act of 2004,” The White House, April 1, 2004, http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/04/200404013.html; See also National Abortion Federation, “Bush’s Strategy to Restrict Reproductive Freedom: A Chronology,” National Abortion Federation, 2005, http://www.prochoice.org/policy/national/bush_strategy.html.
11. Joshua Green, “Roy and His Rock,” Atlantic Online, October 2005, http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200510/roy-moores-ten-commandments.
12. Thomas B. Edsall, “Christian Right Mobilizes for Judge: Conservative Tilt Sought on Bench,” WashingtonPost.com, January 9, 2006, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wpdyn/content/article/2006/01/08/AR2006010801069.html.
13. Laurie Goodstein, “Minister, a Bush Ally, Gives Church as Site for Alito Rally,” NYTimes.com, January 5, 2006, http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FB0B14F63A540C768CDDA80894DE404482.
14. Ronald Stoddart, director of Nightlight Christian Adoption, Washington, DC, May 24, 2005.
15. http://www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=17625.
1. http://www.sexualintelligence.org/newsletters/issue34.html.
2. “Church Passes the Plate for County Fight,” Free Speech X-Press, February 10, 2006, http://www.freespeechcoalition.com/FSCview.asp?coid=301.
3. http://advanceindiana.blogspot.com/2005/08/four-star-general-fired-for.html.
4. Portions of Justice Scalia’s dissent appeared in Judge Vaughn Walker’s 2010 ruling in Perry v. Schwarzenegger supporting same-sex marriage and finding California’s Proposition 8 unconstitutional.
5. See Marty Klein, Your Sexual Secrets: When to Keep Them, When and How to Tell (New York: Dutton, 1988).
6. Many commentators were shocked, shocked that men and women told Kinsey they enjoyed such “perversions” as oral sex, premarital sex, and anal sex. One of the main reasons his two best-selling volumes were damned after publication in the late 1940s and 1950s—and continue to be damned—is that some people don’t want to know that so-called normal people actually do these things.
7. Julia Heiman, personal e-mail to author, fall 2005.
8. From memo written by Judy Guerin, Executive Director, National Coalition for Sexual Freedom, December 6, 2001, 2.
9. Robert Peters, “The Link between Pornography and Violent Sex Crimes,” Morality in Media, 2004, http://www.moralityinmedia.org/index.htm?pornsEffects/Porn-Crime-Link-RWP.htm.
10. Marty Klein, “Oprah and Dr. Phil: Sex for the Simpleminded,” Playboy, January 2003, 33–34; Also available at http://sexed.org/archive/article18.html.
11. National Coalition for Sexual Freedom, “Violence and Discrimination Survey,” National Coalition for Sexual Freedom, 1999, http://www.ncsfreedom.org/library/viodiscrimsurvey.htm.
12. https://ncsfreedom.org/resources/bdsm-survey/2008-bdsm-survey-fast-facts.html.
13. Joseph Marzucco, “Healthcare Attitudes of Individuals in the Alternative Sexual Lifestyle; Bondage and Discipline, Sadism and Masochism,” unpublished study, 2005.
14. The Planned Parenthood Federation of America, “For the Record: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning (LGBTQ),” Planned Parenthood, 2006, http://www.plannedparenthood.org/pp2/portal/files/portal/webzine/ontherecord/otr-archive-lgbtq.xml.
15. Friendship Express, “What Is Swinging?” 1994, http://friendshipexpress.com/SWINGING.HTM. Data gathered by private swing clubs indicate that 90 percent of swingers identify a religious preference and 47 percent regularly attend religious services (Friendship Express, 1994; Miller, 1994; also Gould, 1999).
16. See, Terry Gould, The Lifestyle: A Look at the Erotic Rites of Swingers (Toronto, Ontario: Random House, 1999), 392. This is confirmed in various survey data.
17. I am indebted to Terry Gould for bringing this investigation and other details to public attention in The Lifestyle (see note 16 above).
18. Robert McGinley, phone call with author, February 20, 2006.
19. Dave Gill and others ultimately lost their jobs for criminally overreaching their mandate. (See note 18 above.)
20. See note 15 above.
21. See note 18 above.
22. See note 16 above.
23. Actually, heterosexual swingers’ demographics and lifestyle make them one of the lowest risk groups for STDs, especially HIV. See Gould, 1999; Richard J. Jenks, “Swinging: A Review of the Literature,” Archives of Sexual Behavior 27, no. 5 (1998): 507–21.
24. Milo Fencl, personal conversation with the author, November 10, 2005.
25. Nancy Fencl, personal conversation with the author, November 10, 2005.
26. David Holthouse, “Civil Libertines: The Battle over Phoenix’s Groundbreaking Sex-Club Ban Moves into Federal Court,” phoenixnewtimes.com, March 18, 1999, http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/issues/19990318/feature2.html.
27. Sex Blog, “US Judge Orders Sex Club to Shut Down,” Salon.com, May 28, 2005, http://blogs.salon.com/0003915/2005/05/29.html.
28. National Coalition for Sexual Freedom, “History of the NCSF: Hard at Work to Defend Your Rights,” National Coalition for Sexual Freedom, May 2003, http://www.ncsfreedom.org/history.htm.
29. Sam Janus and Cynthia L. Janus, The Janus Report on Sexual Behavior (New York: Wiley, 1993): xiii, 430.
30. Marty Klein and Charles Moser, “S/M (Sadomasochistic) Interests as an Issue in a Child Custody Proceeding,” Journal of Homosexuality 51, no. 3 (2006): 233–42. Note that participants’ names are changed to protect anonymity.
31. Ibid.
32. Ibid.
33. Ibid, p. 240
34. The e-mail was sent by University of Rhode Island professor Donna Hughes. It didn’t mention that Hughes had recently sponsored a campaign to make Rhode Island’s prostitution laws stricter, and that Andelloux had testified against the campaign in a Rhode Island Senate hearing. See http://thecsph.org/about/history-of-the-csph/
35. Austin Cline, “Religious Right: AFA, Position on Homosexuality.” About.com, shttp://atheism.about.com/library/FAQs/rr/blfaq_rr_afa_homosexuality.htm.
36. “Hollywood Sinks to New, All-Time Moral Low to ‘Homosexualize’ America,” Straight Talk Radio, January 17, 2006, http://www.earnedmedia.org/sbm0117.htm.
37. The amendment was written by the Alliance for Marriage, with the assistance of Judge Robert Bork and other constitutional conservatives. The organization wants to make marriage more important, and divorce more difficult to obtain.
38. CNN Larry King Live, “Debate over Gay Marriage,” CNN.com, January 17, 2006, http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0601/17/lkl.01.html.
39. For example, N. Andersen, C. Amlie, and E. A. Ytteroy, “Outcomes for Children with Lesbian or Gay Parents: A Review of Studies from 1978 to 2000,” Scandinavian Journal of Homosexuality 43, no. 4 (2002): 335–51; S. Dundas and M. Kaufman, “The Toronto Lesbian Family Study,” Journal of Homosexuality 40, no. 2 (2000): 65–79.
40. Timothy J. Dailey, “The Slippery Slope of Same-Sex ‘Marriage’,” Family Research Council, http://www.frc.org/get.cfm?i=BC04C02&f=WA06B27.
1. Citizens for Community Values, “Sexually Oriented Businesses,” CCV.org, http://www.ccv.org/What_is_a_Sexually_Oriented_Business.htm.
2. Adam Thierer, “Of Desperate Housewives and Desperate Regulators,” http://www.cato.org/tech/tk/050105-tk.html.
3. As noted previously, we can see the same process occurring in Western Europe, where fundamentalist Muslims do not accept the necessity of managing their discomfort about their neighbors’ behavior and speech.
1. Gallup, “Values and Beliefs,” 2011. Cited in The Momentum Report—2011 Edition, published by the Movement Advancement Project. Report accessed at http://www.lgbtmap.org/file/momentum-report-2011.pdf.
2. CNN Opinion Research Poll, August 11, 2010; CBS News Poll, October 2010; ABC News/Washington Post Poll, “Gay Marriage,” March 2011; CNN Poll, April 2011; Public Religion Research Institute, “Religion and Politics Tracking Survey,” May 2011; Gallup, “Values and Beliefs Poll,” May 2011. Cited in The Momentum Report—2011 Edition, published by the Movement Advancement Project. Report accessed at http://www.lgbtmap.org/file/momentum-report-2011.pdf.