November 12, 2004
Castrating Private Ryan
An update to yesterday’s post.
Tampa’s ABC affiliate caved to an outright threat by David Caton, the man who was miraculously cured of a 300 dollar per day porn habit when he found Jesus.
I’m not making that last part up, either. Here’s a tiny little snippet of the theories of a sick man who seeks to blame anything other than his own love of serial masturbation for his sticky past:
A third way in which pornography enslaves is through chemical addiction. When the pornography addict indulges in his habit, the adrenal gland secretes the chemical epinephrine into the blood stream. According to David Caton, author of Pornogrpahy: The Addiction, epinephrine goes to the brain and assists in locking in the pornographic images. These locked-in images can result in severely changed behavior, including an obsession with pornography that has much in common with chemical addiction.
So, we’ve reached a point where a man who believes that “no civilized nation” should allow nudity anywhere, a man who fought to have Hillsborough County enact an anti-nude ordinance earlier this year, will be deciding what we watch and listen to on our public airwaves.
He’s such a weak and hypocritical little prick, trying to legislate morality because he can’t possibly be expected to simply ignore behavior which he might not want to partake in. Hey David: if you don’t like what’s on, change the channel. If you don’t want your kids to hear Christian soldiers saying curse words, then supervise your kids. Don’t make the rest of us suffer for your irrational fears.
If WFTS had aired it, a complaint would have been filed, said David Caton, head of the Tampa chapter of the Florida Family Association Inc.Posted by Norwood at November 12, 2004 10:49 AMCaton said the artistic merits of the film don't outweigh the use of coarse language on television when children might be watching. It was scheduled for 8 p.m.
``I don't think the film needed those words to have value,'' he said. ``And the FCC has made its position clear regarding the broadcast of such expletives.''
Caton said an edited version of the film would be acceptable.
ABC officials said the network could not run an edited version of the film because of contractual agreements with Spielberg. The network also refused requests by some stations to air it after 10 p.m., which under FCC rules might allow stronger language.
The FCC refused to grant a waiver to stations. FCC spokeswoman Janice Wise said the commission doesn't make ``pre-broadcast decisions because that would be censorship.''
