Christian Taleban Tackles Hotel Porn

A coalition of some of America's looniest religious groups has launched a campaign against hotels offering adult movies as in-room entertainment, according to the Associated Press. The groups, which include the Family Research Council and Concerned Women for America, are encouraging a federal crackdown on hotel porn, with involvement by the Justice Department and the FBI. The coalition is led by a man named Phil Burress, who describes himself as a "former porn addict" and who alleges that in-room porn makes hotels more dangerous.

"As more and more of these (hardcore) titles become available, we're going to have sexual abuse cases coming out of the hotels," he said. "Hotels are just as dangerous as environments around strip joints and porn stores."

Burress said he was "cautiously optimistic" that Justice Department officials -- whom he and other anti-porn leaders confer with periodically -- would seriously consider investigating hotel-based pornography.

Gay groups have long warned that religious extremists in the U.S. would eventually begin terrorizing heterosexuals. A recent, deadly example is fundamentalist opposition to the HPV cervical cancer vaccine.

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