WRAP begins Oct. 30 and purports to offer “resources and information on how to battle the floodtide of hardcore pornography pouring into our nation’s communities, homes and children’s minds.”
In essence, the program is designed to garner as much negative press as possible for the adult entertainment industry.
In addition, MoralityinMedia.com will post tips on how local porn foes can get involved in the campaign, sample sermons for preachers, sample letters for people to send to supermarket CEOs to complain about “smut at the registers” and strategies for pestering the FCC into taking action against TV and radio broadcasters.
The organization also plans to make available to reporters and columnists “studies and books linking sexual violence and pornography,” as well as information on the highly controversial concept of “porn addiction.”
WRAP was initially organized by Norma Norris, a Pennsylvania woman who in 1987 was inspired by an anti-porn sermon at church and made it her life’s mission to stamp out adult entertainment everywhere.
Norris adopted the white ribbon as a symbol for decency and, according to Morality in Media President Patrick Trueman, a new movement was born.
The highlight of the first WRAP was the bulldozing of a Pennsylvania adult bookstore in front of a large crowd of citizens with cameras rolling and local TV stations reporting the event.
Trueman said WRAP also was responsible for convincing the Shell Corporation to prohibit, by signed contract, any franchisee from selling adult material in Shell stations nationwide.
Morality in Media spokesperson Arlene Sawicki added, “We need to understand that the First Amendment does not protect obscenity. We need to stop believing the lies and clichés drummed into us by the so-called free speech and right-to-porn proponents. We need to wear a White Ribbon for WRAP week and work all through the year to protect our families and communities from this culture’s ‘plague of pornography.’”
