Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum raised a few eyebrows last week, with reports that he intends to go after pornography if elected. As the former senator sees it, America is “suffering a pandemic of harm from pornography,” adding that a Santorum administration would target porn distribution online, on cable television, and in hotel rooms.
Because his campaign made this an issue, Santorum was pressed on this issue during a couple of Sunday-show appearances yesterday. Most of his responses were pretty predictable: on CNN, he criticized the Obama administration because it “has not put a priority on prosecuting” Bush-era porn cases.
But Santorum went a little further when talking to ABC.
“[O]bviously Congress, in its wisdom, understood that hard-core pornography is very damaging, particularly to young people, and that exposure on the Internet can be very damaging, and of course it’s very damaging to a lot of folks.”
Santorum isn’t just talking about obscenity laws or illegal content involving children; he’s referring to an intended crackdown on pornography because he believes the content itself is “very damaging.”









