Tuesday, February 26, 2008
I kid you not
I literally just had this exchange with a female caller about my story on the porn ordinances I wrote about earlier today:"Hi, I'm calling about the article on porn that was in today's paper," the woman says.
I take a deep breath and prepare to hear that I'm a bad person for even writing about it.
"Yes?"
"We say we're a country under God, but what mother or father would want their kids doing porn," she says. "For us to say we're a country under God is a lie because God does not want people doing porn."
She goes on like this for a few moments. I give her some time, thinking maybe this was a tangent and that the real point was coming. I should have cut her off earlier.
"Ma'am, did you read the article"
"Yes. I read it," she says. "But to say we're a country under.."
"Then you know the gist of the article was that yes, they've allowed these places to exist because they can't legally block them, but they've made it so undesirable and so implausible that no porn shops will likely ever come to town," I counter.
"I get that," she says. "That's good. But we shouldn't be allowing it anywhere."
I'm thinking this woman should be calling the president or the moral majority, not some reporter at a local newspaper. "Um hm," I say. "Well, you can write a letter to the editor to that effect and we can publish it."
"Maybe I'll do that," she says. "My point was that a country under God would not even allow porn in their constitution"
"Okay."
"Alright," she says. "That's all."
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Ok yes, this is too funny. I made some of my coworkers read it. They laughed too.
And (excuse my nerdiness) the city of Warwick is 36 square miles according to the Census website. Lol.
Bom Chicka Wah Wah!
Because porn is in the constitution... right after it says we have the right to bare arms....
Lawd. Lol.