NATION AND WORLD
University Daily Kansan, November 15, 1983
Page 9
House OKs child-porn bill
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — The House voted yesterday to strengthen child-pornography laws by boosting the fines more than tenfold and closing loopholes that had allowed pornographers to skirt the law.
The legislation passed 400 to 1, the only negative vote coming from Rep. Ted Weiss, D-N.Y.
Weiss had several specific objections to the bill, and said he would ask children beyond protecting children in custody upon individuals' rights to privacy.
As passed by the House, the bill would outlaw not only the selling, but also the trading or exchanging of used films and photographs of children.
That provision is designed to close
an underground trade network that takes advantage of a loophole in the Child Pornography Act of 1977, only selling the child of pornography.
Since the law was enacted, there have been fewer than 50 prosecutions.
In response to a 1982 Supreme Court decision permitting tougher kidnade porn" laws, the measure limits films or pictures that sexually exploit children regardless of whether the materials are judged legally obscene.
The measure also raises the age of children protected by the law from 16 to 18.
Fines were raised from $10,000 to $100,000 for a first offense and from $15,000 to $200,000 for a repeat offense.
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court, sidesteping the school prayer issue in a New Mexico case, refused yesterday to consider whether states violate religious freedom by requiring a daily minute of silence in classrooms.
Supreme Court refuses to hear school prayer case
The justices, without comment, let stand a ruling striking down New Mexico's "one minute of silence" statute that allows school prayer. A lower court had decided that the law against entangling state and religion.
Other challenges to such laws are likely to reach the Supreme Court in the future, however, and the court may prefer to accept one of them. As many as 20 states, including New York, Connecticut, Maryland and Virginia, have laws allowing a daily moment of silence as a way to get around the Supreme Court's prohibition against prayer in public schools.
THE HIGH COURT'S action came the same day the Mobile County, Ala. School Board filed its Supreme Court hearing to allow voluntary prayer in classrooms.
U. S. District Judge W. Brevard Hand's ruling uphold Alabama's school prayer law was overturned May 12 by a federal appeals court.
In other actions yesterday, the nine justices, before recessing until Nov. 28.
"Very frankly, for 20 years the Supreme Court has been wrong." Dan Alexander, president of the school board and head of a national pro-organization, said during a news conference on the Supreme Court steps.
- Dodged a decision on whether the government may deny financial aid to a college – in this case the University of California because its traditional relationship with society injested sex discrimination into the school's academic program.
- Refused to reinstate $200,000 in child-rearing expenses to a Virginia woman who conceived the child after sterilization failed. The case was won by her mother, who was represented by her father, former Indiana Sen. Vance Hartke.
- Agreed to hear an appeal by Maryland's Coppin State College, which was sued by two employees for racial bias in firing. A U.S. appeals court said the state's six-month limit was too short a time for such cases to be brought.
As the court again avoided school prayer controversy by refusing to hear the New Mexico case, efforts are continuing in Congress to approve a constitutional amendment to permit classroom prayer. President Reagan has endorsed a version to allow audible prayer, and would allow silent prayer or meditation.
In 1981, New Mexico's legislature passed its minute of silence at the time of the United States invasion.
thorize a period of silence not to exceed one minute at the beginning of the school day (to) be used for contemplation, meditation or prayer."
Jerry Duffy, whose son was a student in the Las Cruces school district, challenged the practice and won a ruling by U.S. District Juan Burciaga, who said: "It is clear that the pre-eminent purpose was to establish a devotional exercise in the classrooms of New Mexico public schools."
The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals refused to review the ruling. When the school board voted unanimously not to appeal, a Las Cruces resident named Jean Walsh asked the Supreme Court to step in.
Dan Gonzales, a Las Cruces lawyer who argued against school prayer, said the issue never should have gone to the Supreme Court.
"It was a political thing in the first place, and they were more than happy to let it die," he said.
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ROBERT E. DOLAN
National Chairman, Young Americans for Freedom
Together A Day After
DR. WILLIAM FLETCHER
Moderator. Director Soven and East European Studies
LT. GEN. DANIEL GRAHAM
Executive Director High Frontier Project
(former Director, Defense Intelligence Agency, Department of Defense)
Topic = National Defense System to Repel
A Nuclear Attack on the U.S.
BRIAN DAILEY
GERT J. DOHNAN
President, American Space Frontier
The Pacific Region Committee for the High Frontier
(former U.S. Congressman from California)
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BRIAN L. HENRY
Science Institute, University of California, Defense and Strategic Studies Institute
Topic The Global Soviet Strategy and Analysis of
Inflation
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