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Sex Party Supports Nile’s Right to Access Porn |
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Written by ASP Staff
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Thursday, 02 September 2010 12:50 |
The Rev Fred Nile should not feel guilty about accessing pornography per se but should resign over his appalling response to the current situation, according to the Australian Sex Party. His excuse was to blame and defame the Australian Sex Party and suggest that he was looking for ‘criminal links’ off the Sex Party website.
Sex Party President, Fiona Patten, said that Rev Nile should get over his guilt and shame and explain to the public exactly what sort of ‘porn’ sites he and/or his staff were surfing. “Most adult sites that originate in the US or Europe contain large amounts of Refused Classification (RC) material because they do not meet the tight criteria of Australian X rated guidelines”, she said. “Those conducting the audit should not be using the word ‘porn’ to refer to any of the 200,000 sites that the Rev Nile’s office is reported to have accessed. They should be telling us if they were R rated, X rated or RC. This gives us a truer picture of type of material that he was looking at.”
Ms Patten said that Rev Nile had a right to look at R and X rated porn in his office if he wanted to and that his constituents would be the final arbiters of his actions. “However if he was looking at ‘religious BDSM*’ for example, which is a new genre involving flagellation and sexual bondage scenes, most of which would fall into the RC classification, then that would be a bridge too far”, she said.
She called on Rev Nile to make public all the links to crime and the Sex Party that he found in his ‘research’. “The NSW tax payer has funded this research so let’s all have a look at it”, she said. “I’d like to publicly debate him about the links between religious organisations and child sex abuse vs the links to sex shops illegally selling classified X rated films in NSW”.
*Religious Experience and Homoerotic Sadomasochism in Jeremiah ; Ken Stone of Chicago Theological Seminary.
"Choice, Shame, and Power in the Construction of Sadomasochistic Theologies ; Timothy R. Koch of New Life Metropolitan Community Church
"Oh, Daddy! God, Dominance/Submission, and Christian Sacramentality and Spirituality" : Julianne Buenting, Chicago Theological Seminary.
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