Text of: 1371-R132

The Committee recommends concurrence as amended as follows:

Delete the last sentence of the fourth paragraph: Pornography is not obscene because it is erotic; it is obscene because it is dehumanizing.

In the seventh paragraph, delete the first sentence: Erotica is sexual material ... that does not portray ...degradation. Sex education material ...

Paragraph 13: Delete first sentence and amend to read:

Care should be taken that children and youth are protected from pornographic materials. The supervision and love of Christian parents and other caring adults, supported by the extended church family, are the primary source of sex education. A comprehensive approach to sex education offers an additional basis for countering pornography. Children and youth need ...

Amend line 7 to read: carefully prepared, age-appropriate sex education materials.

Amend line 9 to read: mutually-consenting relationships between married adults.

Amend last sentence to read:

If we fail to provide such materials, accompanied by parental and adult supervision, we force risk the reliance of children and youth pornography as a the primary source of information about sexuality.

Paragraph 16: add a new number 4 to read:

4. Monitor and limit access by children and youth to pornography and sexually explicit material.

Number 4 becomes 5; 5 becomes 6; and 6 becomes 7, which is combined with 8 and reads:

7. Provide educational sessions for parents ... Internet usage. Encourage parents to establish (such as establishing basic rules for teenagers and children; encourage parents to utilize utilizing screening technology , etc.): Encourage parents to utilize filtering software to prevent children from ...

Number 8 is amended to read:

8. Call for social responsibility in all media, including the Internet, and in all public libraries, and work with local, national and international groups that advocate for global media monitoring of images of women, men, and children; and

 

 

 

 

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