(a)(1) It shall be unlawful for any person to knowingly distribute, possess with intent to distribute, or offer or agree to distribute any obscene material or any device designed or marketed as useful primarily for the stimulation of human genital organs for any thing of pecuniary value. Material not otherwise obscene may be obscene under this section if the distribution of the material, the offer to do so, or the possession with the intent to do so is a commercial exploitation of erotica solely for the sake of prurient appeal. Any person who violates this subsection shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be punished by a fine of not more than ten thousand dollars ($10,000) and may also be imprisoned in the county jail or sentenced to hard labor for the county for not more than one year. A second or subsequent violation of this subdivision is a Class C felony if the second or subsequent violation occurs after a conviction has been obtained for a previous violation. Upon a second violation, a corporation or business entity shall be fined not less than ten thousand dollars ($10,000) nor more than fifty thousand dollars ($50,000)."

Code of Alabama, Section 13A-12-200.2. -- http://www.legislature.state.al.us/CodeofAlabama/1975/coatoc.htm. -- Zugriff am 2005-04-06]

It shall be unlawful for any business establishment or any private club to show or allow to be shown for entertainment purposes the human male or female genitals, pubic area, or buttocks with less than a fully opaque covering, or the showing of the female breast with less than a fully opaque covering of any portion thereof below the top of the nipple, or the depiction of covered male genitals in a discernibly turgid state. A violation of this section shall be a Class C felony."

Code of Alabama, Section 13A-12-200.11. -- http://www.legislature.state.al.us/CodeofAlabama/1975/coatoc.htm. -- Zugriff am 2005-04-06]

[Bobbie Kirkhart. -- In: The fundamentals of extremism : the Christian right in America / edited by Kimberly Blaker.  -- New Boston, Mich. : New Boston Books, ©2003.  -- 287 S. ; 22 cm.  -- ISBN: 0972549617. -- S. 70. -- {Wenn Sie HIER klicken, können Sie dieses Buch bei amazon.de bestellen}]

"Censorship, in its purest form, means a government ban on designated ideas and images. But, in a capitalist system, censorship is mostly a question of who stands to profit from the types of information and entertainment "freely" circulated. In the early 1990s, the Christian Right made, literally, a federal case over government funding of controversial artists, resulting in the reduction of such funding and a chilling effect on grant applicants.

Less evidently successful are the ongoing pressure campaigns against the commercial sponsors of insufficiently chaste and wholesome TV shows, campaigns led by the American Family Association (AFA). For AFA, violence is much less objectionable than sex. The focus on foul language and sexual innuendo leaves unchallenged the more pervasive messages of our daily dose of commercial media: buy stuff, stay smiling and mentally unchallenged, and buy more stuff. The Christian Right is unfazed by excessive consumerism and, instead, objects to agenda-setting by the corporate media only when sympathetic TV characters are portrayed as gay, divorced, or sexually promiscuous."

[Diamond, Sara: Not by politics alone : the enduring influence of the Christian Right. -- New York : Guilford Press, ©1998.  -- xiv, 280 S. ; 23 cm.  -- ISBN 1572303859. -- S. 174f. -- {Wenn Sie HIER klicken, können Sie dieses Buch bei amazon.de bestellen}]