Some people think that only right-wing conservatives care about such moral pollution. Wrong. Most parents I know, liberal or conservative, care a great deal about it, as do most self-respecting women and men. It defies stereotypes to suggest that a healthy moral consistency applies to personal and sexual ethics as well as to social and political values. It’s time to break out of those old ideological shibboleths and forge a unified front against the amoral corporate greed that violates all our ethics – personal and social – creating a system that sells beer and breasts in the same advertising plans just to make a buck. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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