Decency Advocates to Protest Outside the Department of Justice

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Washington- Decency advocates are planning an early morning demonstration outside of the U.S. Justice Department headquarters today. Participants will be calling for more aggressive enforcement of federal obscenity laws.

Dr. Janice Crouse [pictured] of Concerned Women for America says America has quickly become "a nation of garbage." She contends that the society is being bombarded with pornography and obscenity on television, movie, and computer screens. Yet, Crouse says the Department of Justice is not cracking down on this "culture of filth."

That is why Concerned Women for America, Focus on the Family, the Family Research Council and other activist groups are demanding that the Department of Justice's Obscenity Prosecution Task Force fulfill its mission by protecting women, children, and families from obscenity. Crouse says the time to act is now.

"[W]e cannot raise our children in this kind of environment," she remonstrates. "None of us ought to have to live with this kind of environment ...."

Crouse says the problem goes beyond the culture, and she notes that it negatively impacts individual's lives -- something that she says causes a "great deal of worry."

She also notes that the problem is not a lack of funding, but rather a lack of will at the Justice Department to prosecute obscenity.