Years ago, Action Magazine quotes Chief Justice Earl Warren as saying, “There is not a city in this country where pornography is not sold with impunity.” “Why don’t law enforcement officials do their job?

Back in 1957, the U. S. Supreme Court stated that material is obscene when “to the average person, applying contemporary community standards, the dominant theme of the material taken as a whole appeals to the prurient interest.”

There are implications here of vast importance. 1. Smut can now be somewhat defined and tagged and judgment brought against pornographers. 2. Good citizens must speak against obscenity or else they “may be used as a statistic in favor of it,” so warns Action.

3. Of much deeper significance is the Watchman-Examiner’s observation of the Supreme Court’s 1957 ruling. “This is a remarkable statement. It places the whole concept of moral standards into the realm of public judgment alone and shoves aside any higher law. Applying the same principle to the tax laws, for instance, would promptly bankrupt the government….The ease with which modern society has abandoned references to higher law is shocking.”