Pay-Per-View hotel porn has arrived on the Conservative Hit List.

The Courier-Journal reports that several conservative groups have banded together and are attempting to get the FBI and the Department of Justice to investigate hotel porn:

NEW YORK (AP) -- Pornographic movies now seem nearly as pervasive in America's hotel rooms as tiny shampoo bottles, and the lodging industry shows little concern as conservative activists rev up a protest campaign aimed at triggering a federal crackdown.

A coalition of 13 conservative groups - including the Family Research Council and Concerned Women for America - took out full-page ads in some editions of USA Today earlier this month urging the Justice Department and FBI to investigate whether some of the pay-per-view movies widely available in hotels violate federal and state obscenity laws.

There are quite a few issues that these groups support that I would be supporting with them. This is not one of those issues. There are many hotels to chose from that do not have pay-per-view porn (the article indicates that only 40% of hotels offer pay-per-view porn), and the ones that do require a positive action on the part of the viewer to watch the porn. It is not something your kids are going to see by accident. It has been said many times over that you can not legislate morality. You can elect a moral government and you can pass on your moral principals to your children, but you can not expect the government to require morality from everyone.

It is possible that there is an ulterior motive here, the same motive that causes the hotels to provide this entertainment feature in their rooms. Money!

The coalition also is trying to draw attention to CleanHotels.com, a directory of hotels and motels nationwide that pledge to exclude adult offerings from their in-room entertainment service.

Just as I have the right to order the Blade Trilogy on PPV if I wish, so does a person or couple have the right to order the legal entertainment of their choice.

The best way to get hotels to stop providing porn as part of the entertainment package is to only stay at hotels that do not offer it. And, let them know that is why you are staying there.

This is a very well written article by DAVID CRARY and well worth your time.