from the the-censorship-police-are-getting-bolder dept
Another senior Trump administration official [Adam Candeub] is gleefully showing off his true colors: The current general counsel for the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) published an opinion column with the Heritage Foundation’s news outlet The Daily Signal calling for stronger obscenity regulation.
[…] Candeub proposes a supposed moral restoration of obscenity laws such that anything viewed through the lens of non-traditional sexual expression could be fair game for legislatures to heavily restrict or outright ban.
[…] Candeub works for the FCC and is backing a legal strategy that’s been used, historically, to aggressively prosecute women, LGBTQ+ individuals, entire communities of color, consensual sex workers, and pornographic and non-pornographic publishers for their speech.
This is the FCC presenting itself as the morality speech police.
It would make sense because the pursuit of square dancing in the 1940’s in the United States was part of Ford’s agenda to push out the influence of black jazz in schools.
Also, according to the Country Dance & Song Society, square dancing is only held together by layers of whitewashed black history. The Smithsonian goes further to say that Native American people also influenced the music.
But, to answer your question, Christian churches do create a community and have events where people hang out, pray, etc. As a child the church I was brought to had outreach events where we handed out food, protested, and we once helped clean up some weird factory building. It’s easier for an org like that to get people to come together. There is guilt for missing service and people constantly ask you to do this thing or that.
I’m not sure how it would be accomplished, but creating non-religious community centers would be a huge benefit.