Nutjobs for purity

Tom Hayes has some trenchant comments on the people who have their panties in a bunch over the word "scrotum" in a children's book. But Janet La Rue of the Concerned Women for America Rape has done them one better. She wants to protect our troops from the evils of pornography.

Soldiers have always had their pinups. Maybe they weren't explicit. But the Greatest Generation didn't look at their Bette Davis pictures as if they were icons of the Blessed Virgin. 'Scuse me, but these are young men with needs. Would La Rue prefer that they patronize Certain Professionals off-base? Or do to the civilian population what soldiers have historically done? That's the way to win hearts and minds, for sure. These guys are dying for freedom (at least that's what Bush says), and we won't let them do WHAT?!

Any issue that can get rightwingprof and Amanda Marcotte to hold hands and sing kum-bye-ya is clearly "out of the mainstream."

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