Republicans show support for law protecting children from internet porn

Republicans in Congress are rallying support for a Texas law that will protect children from one of the largest public health crises in recent memory:

Internet pornography.

Porn is NOT an accurate representation of normal sexual interactions, but America's young people are having a harder and harder time understanding that.

It seems like everyone in America has a smartphone and/or access to the internet these days, and that includes America's children.

With lewd images and videos being just a few clicks away, it's essentially inevitable that curious young minds will start to conduct their own research.

Humans have been interested in sex for thousands of years, but it's only in the last twenty or so that the internet has made pornography easily accessible to anyone with an internet connection.

That's why Senators Mike Lee, a Republican from Utah; John Cornyn, a Republican from Texas; and Chip Roy, a Republican from Texas, are banding together to make America more aware of the dangers that internet pornography can have on America's young minds.

"Companies are profiting from exposing children to adult content, and it must stop," Lee told Breitbart. "This initiative by Texas reflects the age-verification measures I am fighting for at the federal level with the SCREEN Act, and American families everywhere should be cheering these efforts to protect kids online."

Chip Roy has taken the lead on this issue:

"The government has an obvious and unquestionable duty in keeping children off porn sites; decades of relatively unfettered access to obscene online content under insufficient policies have done tremendous damage to our country," the man from Texas said. "Texas’s law does this by simply requiring adults to prove their age, as should be the case with age-restricted items. That’s why I expect Attorney General Paxton’s case to succeed at the Supreme Court and am proud to join Mike Lee in defense of it."

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton even wrote to the Supreme Court about this issue:

"This statute does not prohibit the performance, production, or even sale of pornography but, more modestly, simply requires the pornography industry… to take commercially reasonable steps to ensure that those who access the material are adults," Paxton wrote.

Do you think that there should be laws in place protecting young people from internet pornography?

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