Former Federal Prosecutor Assails NY Supreme Court Ruling

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In the wake of a New York court ruling that says it’s not illegal to “merely” view online child pornography” child advocates are urging federal prosecutors to take over the cases as two state lawmakers rush to fix the law.

Pat Truman president and chief executive of Morality in Media said it is “a singular outrage that the highest court in New York has decriminalized the act of viewing child pornography by computer.”

The high court unanimously agreed to reverse two of the dozens of child-pornography counts against a former college professor, saying there was no evidence the professor did more than look at some images on his computer.

Truman, a former federal prosecutor, said that until the law is fixed, all child-pornography cases in New York should be handled in federal court.

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1 Corinthians 6:18-20
Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body. Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body[a] and in your spirit, which are God’s. (NKJV)

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