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Mike Pence: As a father of three small children, I do rise to denounce this deplorable decision where the court struck down a 1996…

On the recordApril 17, 2002
As a father of three small children, I do rise to denounce this deplorable decision where the court struck down a 1996 Federal ban on computer-generated child pornography. The court actually wrote that the law was not sufficiently precise and that the law does not make reference to any crime or the creation of any victims. The promotion and the creation of child pornography by definition creates victims, Mr. Speaker. I call on my colleagues to move forward expeditiously to right this wrong in the law. While the court has given solace to child pornographers, some protection from the law of man, I would close with reflecting on the law of God to those out there who create this material. The Good Book says that if anyone causes one of these little ones to sin, it would be better for him to have a large millstone hung around his neck and that he would be drowned.
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Mike Pence
Republican · Indiana

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Denouncing a Supreme Court decision that struck down a federal ban on computer-generated child pornography.

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