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    <title>Romney Hit for Porn</title>
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    <published>2007-07-12T17:13:16-05:00</published>
    <updated>2008-08-07T15:58:42-05:00</updated>
    <author>
      <name>Ezra</name>
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    <category term="American Family Association" />
    <category term="Citizens for Community Values" />
    <category term="Family Research Council" />
    <category term="Mitt Romney" />
    <category term="Phil Burress" />
    <category term="Politics" />
    <category term="Tony Perkins" />
    <summary type="html"><![CDATA[<p>Adding to <a title="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/2007/07/massresistance.html" href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/2007/07/massresistance.html">charges by   MassResistance and others</a> that Mitt Romney &ldquo;<a title="http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=56625" href="http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=56625">bungled</a>&rdquo;   gay marriage when he was governor of Massachusetts, the candidate is now getting   grief about his business career. Romney, in his effort to secure support from   social conservatives, has cited pornography as among the things he stands   against, but some religious-right activists are questioning his anti-porn   credentials. </p>
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    <content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>Adding to <a title="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/2007/07/massresistance.html" href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/2007/07/massresistance.html">charges by   MassResistance and others</a> that Mitt Romney &ldquo;<a title="http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=56625" href="http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=56625">bungled</a>&rdquo;   gay marriage when he was governor of Massachusetts, the candidate is now getting   grief about his business career. Romney, in his effort to secure support from   social conservatives, has cited pornography as among the things he stands   against, but some religious-right activists are questioning his anti-porn   credentials. </p>
<p>&quot;Pornography and violence poison our   music and movies and TV and video games,&quot; Romney <a title="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/05/AR2007070501305.html" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/05/AR2007070501305.html">told</a> the graduating class of Pat Robertson&rsquo;s Regent University last May, discussing   the deadly violence at Virginia Tech a few weeks earlier. &ldquo;The Virginia Tech   shooter, like the Columbine shooters before him, had drunk from this   cesspool.&quot;</p>
<p>But Ohio&rsquo;s right-wing stalwart Phil Burress is   pointing to Romney&rsquo;s career on the board of Marriott hotels, where some   travelers reportedly watch porn. &ldquo;Marriott is a major pornographer. And even   though he may have fought it, everyone on that board is a hypocrite for   presenting themselves as family values when their hotels offer 70 different   types of hardcore pornography.&rdquo; </p>
<p>&ldquo;They have to assume some   responsibility. It's their hotels, it's their television sets,&rdquo; adds Tony   Perkins, president of the Family Research Council. Perkins <a title="http://www.onenewsnow.com/2007/07/frcs_perkins_challenging_romne.php" href="http://www.onenewsnow.com/2007/07/frcs_perkins_challenging_romne.php">says</a>,   &ldquo;[T]here's some expectation that if an issue is important to you and you portray   that issue as being important now, that when you had an opportunity to address   it at a very practical level that you would have taken steps to do   it.&rdquo;</p>
<p>&quot;And we're talking about hardcore,   X-rated pornography made available by the Marriott Corporation,&rdquo; <a title="http://www.onenewsnow.com/2007/07/romney_assailed_for_ties_to_po.php" href="http://www.onenewsnow.com/2007/07/romney_assailed_for_ties_to_po.php">echoes</a> Gary Glenn, president of the American Family Association of Michigan. &quot;If the   board of directors of Marriott is not responsible for their sale of hardcore,   X-rated pornography -- tens of millions of dollars' worth a year -- then who is   responsible?&quot;</p>
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