Tuesday, June 26, 2007

The Nazis are Coming!

Hmm, I recently discovered an "interesting" website @ http://www.americandecency.org. Apparently, American Decency is defined by Christian morals and views, so if you aren't a Christian, you are already not decent.

Anyways, after having a look around this website, I was able to put together a computer generated image of what the majority of the writers, contributers, etc. for this site must look like. I first skimmed through most of their issues, and was bombarded by stupidity and qqing. I decided that I get enough of that crap from MMO's, so I decided to skip the rest of the issues section. That lead me to the campaigns section.

At first, I thought this had something to do with the upcoming 2008 election, and I thought it would list politicians they support, those they oppose, which state legislatures have passed a Final Solution bill, etc. However, I was surprised to find out that the campaign were actions, petitions, etc. against "obscene" or "immoral" behavior. Ironically, the first campaign they had listed was against Victoria's Secret, so I decided to take a look hoping they'd have some pictures to demonstrate their points.

Unfortunately, I was wrong. It was a small wall of text that was tldr, but I can tell you with some assurance that it had something to do with Victoria's Secret objectifying women in their advertisements. I am one of those people who believes if a store really is doing something wrongful or hurtful that the people the store is wronging or hurting won't shop there or might be upset if a family member such as a significant other shops there and buys them a gift. I don't know... afterall, I am not a Christian anymore (though technically I can never stop being a Christian until I get myself excommunicated from the church since I received Confirmation back when I was 11 or 12).

After I was tldr'ing the Victoria's Secret thing, I decided to take a look at what their other campaigns were. I saw a cliche campaign against TV since TV is too sexual / vulgar now-a-days and parents are too lazy to tell their kids what they can and can't watch and don't hit them if they find their kids watching those shows. However, I was surprised that Grey's Anatomy was one of the shows they were battling against. Now, Ive never watched Grey's Anatomy before, but from what I could gather from the commercials, it was about a young Mexican or Cuban or something girl that ventures out into the rain forest to talk Math, Science, and Literature with animals. Apparently, I was wrong.

Another campaign was against a thing called Movie Gallery. Now, I had no incentive to even research what it is until I read the first line of the article: "Movie Gallery is known nationwide for its distribution of hard-core pornography." Perhaps I'll further investigate what Movie Gallery is at home. However, I think Movie Gallery should be cut some slack. After all, American Decency's concept of pornography is if a woman is wearing too short of a dress (you know, the kid that don't touch your ankles) or has too big of breasts (even if they are as natural as those that God made). So, I think the worst Movie Gallery has done is shown one too many money shots, but I'll find out later.

The other campaigns were against Abercrombie and Fitch and more media shit. Religious groups like this are why people are further distancing themselves from religion now-a-days. They may full-hearted agree with an overwhelming majority of what their religion teaches, but when shit headed groups like this begin associating themselves with their religion.

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