Westmeath WI Scrapbook, 1984-1985, p. 2

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!“ | | \ | I | Aan‘ | Pornographers ‘don‘t deserve protection‘ ‘ 5 ; p PHPn .4 l’y | The Canadian Press ting it off the streets and out of sight said videotapes that ca,: be ‘shown on | Pornographers should have no proâ€" of young people. ; home television sets should be cenâ€" | tection from the Charter of Rights The federation and the Canadian sored in the way movies are. There | and Freedoms because pornography â€" Coalition against Media Pornography; should be tough new rules to prevent "affects society adversely," the Federâ€" Which was formed to fight pornograâ€" televised pornography. ated Women‘s Institutes of Canada, a _ Phy on pay TV, both advocated broad Both the coalition and the teachers | fural women‘s organization with Censorship to combat pornographic federation were gencrally critical of | 48,000 members, contended Saturday. _ MAR&AZIn®s Of films, . _ the effect television has on children. The federation_ was, appeating im | isyi"agetay crotiea. which it defimed _ , The Hastingsâ€"Prince Edward Counâ€" Ottawa before a federal committe¢ On o; "mutyally pleasurable sexual exâ€" ty Roman Catholic Separate School prostitution and pornography, chaired pression between people who have Board told the committee it has famiâ€" | by Vancouver lawyer Paul Fraser. enough power to be there by positive ly life and sex education courses that The committee is to report later this _ Cpoige," P begin in kindergarten and continue year to the federal government. It said pornography should be made . through Grade 13. The federation said prostitution is a crime and proposed a broad defini. . Fraser asked whether pornography "a threat to moral standards" and the tion that would, among other things, is ever used in these courses. law must protect morals. make it a crime to depict women as "It depends what you mean by porâ€" | "It is true that strict laws would "sexual objects, things or commodiâ€" nography," a board member replied, only force prostitution underground _ ties" or to portray them as "whores adding that television programs are | but it would have the effect of elimiâ€" by nature." used in school to develop some critical nating a good portion of it and of getâ€" The Canadian Teachers Association _ ability in children. y e mis io n l se clow es fae n e Lynch mob;. .. Some of the nation‘s antiâ€"porâ€" nography crusaders are showing a disturbing tendency toward frontier Miramichi Lodge holds ie emmention soanbrald i eged pornographers would be given by Ethel White "When _ You‘re Smiling, ?‘ fd”l‘l.r]ld,l ,kfl-md then Rafecs: The April birthday. party April Showers, I‘ve Got Sixâ€" SPlor Pedoinica. Avomemsalet was held in the auditorium Of pence, Lily Marlene, Mockâ€" he Federated Women‘s instiâ€" mearind i 2 f . tutes of Canada, with 48,000 memâ€" Miramichi Lodge recently ing Bird Hill and When It‘s | *4 J Can: 92 with the ladies of Westmeath â€" Sprintime in the Rockies." ] bers _mostly in rural Canad_a‘, is a Women‘s Institute as hostess infistroon teagasi served. | case in point. Its _rcprescmatlon_ to group.. by the institute assisted by _ the federal committee on prostituâ€" A birthday cake prepared the lodge staff and coâ€" tion and pornography 'suggested by Mrs Joan Dingle centred birthday convener Mrs Blanâ€" that the Charter of Rights and the table and red and white che Graham. Freedoms nof apply to pornograâ€" carnations were presented to _ Congratulations were exâ€" phers. ; p the celebrants who @ls0 tended to Gustavy Lehman In the name of protecting public received birthday cakes. born April 7, 1882; 102 years morals, the Federated Women‘s Inâ€" ‘Mrs Christine Reauburn young; Reinholdt stitutes would set aside the princiâ€" was MC for the sing sON& Scheuneman born April 30 ple that the constitution is there which included old favorites, £ for everyone, subject to judicial inâ€" Messseene ce terpretation. Lynching pornographers, metaâ€" phorically speaking, js not an ethiâ€" cal response to an issue of ethics and morality. 3

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