U.S. pays religious right to watch porn

Untold millions of religious conservatives are selflessly volunteering their time to help root out internet porn, thanks to a grant from the Department of Justice.

"It's hard", said a spokesman who reluctantly stopped his search long enough to talk with me, "but watching vile sex acts for hours on end is God's work, and I feel close to Heaven every half hour or so while I do it".

Thanks to UPI for the story:

Anti-obscenity program not a success
WASHINGTON, Aug. 10 (UPI) -- A U.S. Justice Department grant designed to root out obscenity on the Internet has resulted in 67,000 citizen complaints but no prosecutions.

The $150,000 a year grant awarded to the conservative religious group Morality in Media is the result of an earmark inserted into a spending bill by Congressman Frank R. Wolf, R-Va., The New York Times reported Friday.

Under the program, citizens are invited to report material they believe is obscene so it can be investigated and possibly prosecuted.

Two former law enforcement officers troll the Internet for sexual web sites and review complaints filed by citizens who register on the Justice Department site.

Clicking on the site to make a report takes the user to ObscenityCrimes. org that is run by Morality in Media.

Stephen G. Bates, a Harvard-trained lawyer and journalism professor, has criticized outsourcing the search for obscenity, saying it makes “a mockery of the First Amendment, chilling freedom of expression.”

So Rep. Wolf slides an earmark into a funding bill allowing religious conservatives, the group with the largest number of sexual hangups of all time, to get their jollies while claiming to guard my morality. Talk about sucking up to your base. And on the government (and your) dime.

And, of course, encouraging these idiots to focus on sex keeps them from focusing on the true obscenity epitomized by the very Justice Department funding the venture. Morality in Media will never bite the hand that strokes them.