[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 43 (Wednesday, April 17, 2002)]
[House]
[Page H1345]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




    BIPARTISAN DENOUNCEMENT OF UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT DECISION 
                      INVOLVING CHILD PORNOGRAPHY

  (Mr. PENCE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PENCE. Mr. Speaker, it should be obvious on the floor of the 
House today that the denouncement of yesterday's decision by the United 
States Supreme Court is truly bipartisan. 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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