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Three commission members, aligned themselves with Nixon's position. In a minority report, they called the findings of the Commission a "Magna Carta for the pornographer," and said, "the commission is presumptuously recommending that the United States follow Denmark's lead in giving pornography free rein...
Dirty Magna Carta. Anyone with common sense, said Keating, knows intuitively that "one who wallows in filth is going to get dirty" and that "those who will spend millions of dollars to tell us otherwise must be malicious or misguided or both." Keating charged that the report "flouts the underlying opinions and desires of the great mass of the American people...
...Commission Members Winfrey C. Link and Morton A. Hill, both clergymen, the majority report was "a Magna Carta for the pornographer," fraudulent because it was based on "scanty and manipulated evidence." Pornography, they contended, is "loveless, degrades the human being and reduces him to the level of animal...
...Renaissance. Around that time, a sweet wind of humanism swept across the dark face of Europe, bringing with it a new interest in Latin classics and Greek philosophy, a delight in racy troubadour songs and epic verse, and a keener awareness of the dignity of man. The Magna Carta was signed, and the great Gothic cathedrals of Chartres, Notre Dame and Reims were begun...
...Chancellor, Lord Gardiner, described the proposal as "a start towards getting rid of a lot of junk," his words rang like alarm bells. Leaping to his feet, Lord Leatherland cried: "I should hate historians of the future to say that Lord Gardiner was the man who said that Magna Carta was junk." The Lord Chancellor was appropriately chastened. Rising from his comfortable woolsack, he said: "I withdraw the word junk." There is no thought, however, of withdrawing the repeal proposal...