The Encyclopedia of Censorship by Green Jonathon & Karolides Nicholas J

Author:Green, Jonathon & Karolides, Nicholas J. [Green, Jonathon & Karolides, Nicholas J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780816044641
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Publisher: Facts On File
Published: 2005-01-15T02:34:58.990438+00:00

down before proceedings began. He entirely rewrote his novel, and in February 1798 there appeared the bowdlerized version— Ambrosio, or, The Monk—devoid completely Moore, George See LITERATURE AT NURSE.

of objectionable material. The case, as Lewis hoped, was promptly dropped.

Morality in Media

Founded in 1962 and originally called Operation Yorkville, Monkey Trial, The See SCOPES V. STATE (1927).

the organization claimed some 14,000 members in 2003

(50,000 in 1990) and campaigns against the availability of pornography to minors. It aims to “educate and alert par-Montagu, Richard (1577–1641) theologian, ents and community leaders to the problem of, the scale of clergyman

and the danger in the distribution of obscene material; to The Rev. Richard Montagu was one of the more vociferous encourage communities to express themselves in a unified, of those clergymen who, in the early 17th century, had cho-organized way to legitimate media requesting responsibility sen to back the king and the established church against Par-and to law enforcement officials urging vigorous enforce-liament and puritanism. For his pains Montagu suffered a ment of obscenity laws; to work for media based on the number of attacks, accusing him of popery and Arminian-principles of love, truth and taste.” Morality in Media oper-ism. He responded to these with his book, Appello Cae-ates the National Obscenity Law Center, which acts as a sarem, written in his own defense and with the direct clearinghouse of legal information on obscenity cases, encouragement of James I. By 1628, after some years of offering material for prosecutors, lawyers, and other inter-debating Montagu’s position, Parliament called upon the ested parties. The organization publishes its Morality in new king, Charles I, to punish Montagu and to suppress Media Newsletter every month and the Obscenity Law Bul-and burn his books. Charles obliged, issuing on January 17, letin every two months.

1628, a proclamation that cited Montagu’s work as “the first See also CHRISTIAN CRUSADE, THE; CITIZENS FOR

cause of these disputes that have since much troubled the DECENT LITERATURE; CLEAN UP TV CAMPAIGN

quiet of the Church” and threatened that if anyone else (CUTV/US); COALITION FOR BETTER TELEVISION; COM-attempted to write on similar topics, “we shall take such MITTEE ON PUBLIC INFORMATION; CRUSADE FOR

order with them and those books that they shall wish they DECENCY; EAGLE FORUM; MORAL MAJORITY; NATIONAL

had never thought upon these needless controversies.”

FEDERATION FOR DECENCY; NATIONAL ORGANIZATION

Despite this apparent condemnation, Montagu was still FOR DECENT LITERATURE; PARENTS’ ALLIANCE TO PRO-made bishop of Chichester, and continued rising in eccle-TECT OUR CHILDREN; PEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY.

siastical preferments until the Civil War.

Moral Majority

Moon Is Blue, The

The Moral Majority is probably the best-known of several The Moon Is Blue, based on F. Hugh Herbert’s play, was groups based in America’s fundamentalist Protestant com-filmed by Otto Preminger in 1953. Ostensibly a light munity. The movement claimed a membership of some romantic comedy, and generally accepted as one of the 72,000 ministers and 4 million lay persons, all dedicated to director’s lesser efforts, it fell foul of censorship boards in promoting conservative values. Founded in 1979 by the Milwaukee, Jersey City, Ohio, Maryland, and Kansas.

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