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National Awareness Campaign: Be Aware Porn Harms
July 11, 2011 through August 7, 2011

Pornography Addiction Treatment System

Morality In Media’s Be Aware: PORN HARMS National Awareness Campaign kicks off Monday, July 11th with a week of activities highlighting the pandemic of addiction caused by adult pornography.   More than 70 national and state groups are involved in this four-week campaign, expected to reach hundreds of thousands of Americans.

A different area of harm resulting from pornography will be highlighted each week: pornography addiction; harms to children; the links between pornography and sex trafficking; and violence against women. More than 30 online events will occur during the month and hundreds of free subscriptions to protection programs will be distributed.

Activities for the first week include:

• Monday, July 11th at 2:00 PM EDT
  Live Online Conference: Perspectives from addicts and the spouse
• Tuesday, July 12th at 11 AM EDT & 9:00 PM EDT
  Web and Call Presentation: 5 Hidden Dangers Facing You and Your Family Right Now
• Thursday, July 14th at 4:00 PM EDT
  Live Online Conference: Tools to Overcome Pornography Addiction
• Thursday, July 14th at 9:00 PM EDT
  Webinar – Overcoming Sex Addiction: Learning the difference between fantasy and positive relationships
• Friday, July 15th All Day
  Twitter Chat: Facts & Answers on Porn Addiction in 140 Characters. Just tweet using #pornaddiction at the end of your tweet.
• Sunday, July 17th at 9:00 PM EDT
  Online Documentary Screening: Out of Darkness

More activities are listed at the website:  www.PornHarms.com/beaware. Free posters for printing or website-use are available there as well.

“Addiction is one of the foremost harms of pornography. It is at crisis levels in the U.S.,” said Patrick Trueman, President of Morality In Media.   “It affects children and adults in very significant numbers and ruins many lives, marriages and families,” he added.   “Few pornography addicts are getting the treatment they need though there are many services available.”

Director of the Be Aware: PORN HARMS campaign, Dawn Hawkins commented, “The evidence of addiction to pornography is now so overwhelming that it cannot be denied. Porn addiction is affecting every segment of American society and the harm it causes is great.   Substantial research on pornography addiction can be found at the website www.PornHarms.com”

Morality In Media will not only highlight the problem of addiction to pornography, but provide many sources of support for addicts and family members.   Candeo, an addiction recovery service, as well as Covenant Eyes and Net Nanny, which provide Internet Safety software, will giveaway free subscriptions to their services.

“Addiction would all but disappear if the U. S. Department of Justice would vigorously enforce criminal laws against the major producers and distributors of adult pornography,” said Patrick Trueman.   “Attorney General Eric Holder must begin enforcing existing federal laws against obscene adult pornography now.   The political clout of the pornography criminals must be ignored in this time of national crisis,” he added.

About Morality In Media

Morality in Media, Inc., is the leading national organization focused on opposing obscenity and indecency through public education and the application of the law. MIM is leading The War on Illegal Pornography, a coalition of more than 100 national and state groups whose goal is to stop the distribution illegal pornography. For more information visit:

• www.waronillegalpornography.com
• www.pornharms.com
• www.moralityinmedia.org
• Addition to Internet Pornography
• Pornography Addiction Treatment System

Why on God’s green earth should the government use our tax dollars to bailout GM and Chrysler?

According to an AP article, released today, GM CEO Wagoner to step down at White House request, GM and Chrysler have received $17.4 billion in bailout money and have requested an additional $21.6 billion.

My question begs an answer. Why on God’s green earth should the government use our tax dollars to bailout GM and Chrysler?

What have they done for us? The big three automakers have closed plants across the nation, and moved their production lines to Mexico and goodness knows where else. Why don’t they ask the Mexican government to bail them out? What are they doing for workers here in the U.S.A.?

I used to buy only American made cars, only to discover that just because those big corporate executives lived and operated right here in the United States, the parts are made and assembled by cheap labor in third world countries.

I no longer worry about supporting the big three because they don’t care about American workers, they only care about their bottom line. So, let them sing the blues to Obama. He doesn’t care about America either. He is trying to bankrupt this country and send all the money we’ve toiled to earn overseas, so that we can be taken over by his African home boys.

Family Heritage

My maiden name is Patrick and I’m hard pressed to let a single St. Patrick’s Day go by without making a big deal of it, it is still to this day one of my favorite holidays.

For many years I claimed Irish as my own heritage. Surely, with a last name like Patrick I must be Irish. You can imagine my dismay when I discovered that I’m actually Scottish. I’ve traced our families heritage back to the Lamont clan in the 1400’s, in Edinburgh, Scotland.

As a child I was convinced that somewhere along the line we were related to royalty. As luck would have it, I haven’t found a royal bone in my body, turns out instead of being heir to a throne, I’ve decended from horse thieves and criminals.

My husband on the other hand is the great-great-great-great-great grandson of Lyman Hall a previous Governor of Georgia and signer of the Declaration of Independence, not to mention being related to William Shakespeare.

Celebrations

Fortunately, you don’t have to be Irish to enjoy the festivities on St. Paddy’s Day. Just don your green beanie or your “Kiss Me if your Irish” button and make your way to one of the many St. Patrick’s Day celebrations. Who knows maybe the Luck O’ The Irish will rub off on you or you’ll find that pot o’ gold at the end of the rainbow.

St. Paddy’s Day is celebrated the world over, with parades and events taking place in Irish communities in cities around the world. Though many communities have jumped the gun and held their festivities a little early, perhaps to prolong the holiday, we’ve managed to locate 2009 St. Patrick’s Day Parades all over the U.S. and even a few across the globe.

Irish Stew – Pugg Mahones

St. Patrick’s Day Parades & Events

• St. Patrick’s Day Parades
• Atlanta, Georgia
• Boston, Massachusetts
• Dublin, Ireland
• Montreal, Quebec
• Raleigh, North Carolina
• Tokyo, Japan

The first formal celebration of St. Patrick’s Day took place not in Ireland, but in Boston in 1737. It consisted of a dinner attended by wealthy Protestant gentlemen and merchants who had recently come over from Ulster to settle in the colonies. By 1775, the Boston celebration included a march with 70 soldiers from the British Army who were at the time occupying Boston (an interesting note is that exactly 1 year later, in 1776, the British Army was marching again – but in double time – as they were retreating from the city. So in Boston, March 17 holds two causes to celebrate – St Patrick’s Day and Evacuation day.)

The very first St. Patrick’s Day Parade  in the United States was held in New York City in 1766 by a band of homesick Irish ex-patriots. This was during a time when the “Wearin’ O’ The Green” was still a sign of Irish pride that was banned in Ireland.

A parade celebrating the freedom to speak the Irish language, sing Irish songs and play the bagpipes to Irish tunes was very meaningful to the immigrants who had fled their homes at such great cost leaving so much behind. Today modern celebrations in Ireland tend to avoid the green which has come to symbolize the flag that flew during the years that Ireland suffered under British rule!

American’s have a lot in common with the Irish people, which might be perhaps one of the many reasons so many in this country celebrate this joyous holiday.

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