Supreme Court Denies Request to Block Texas P*rn Age Verification Law
The “Free Speech Coalition” was trying to overturn an appeals court ruling upholding the law
The United States Supreme Court has denied a request to overturn a U.S. Appeals Court ruling allowing a Texas law requiring age verification for pornography sites to be enforced.
On Tuesday, the court released a one-sentence order declining an issue to stay in the case, Free Speech Coalition, et al v. Paxton.
“While the Supreme Court has denied our application to stay the Fifth Circuit’s decision upholding age verification requirements in Texas, our petition for full merits review before the Supreme Court remains pending,” the group, which is representing the adult film industry, said in a statement.
Texas’ HB1181 requires that pornography websites verify a user’s age at the threat of fines of up to $10,000 a day for noncompliance.
Additional fines of $10,000 a day for keeping identification information are also imposed, as well as a fine of $250,000 if it is found that a minor has been able to view explicit content on a company’s website.
The legislation did its job right away — when it was signed by Governor Ken Paxton last year, PornHub, the world’s largest pornography website, announced it was suspending access to the site for Texas users.
PornHub is the most lucrative and powerful website out of sadly far too many that exploit innocent victims for greed and sick pleasure. Millions of people around the world are currently enmeshed in the demonic realm of “adult” media, and sadly children are not excluded from this horrifying world. Even when websites claim that performers have consented and are over the age of 18, this is often sadly not the case.
Texas’ law is certainly one small step towards battling the demonic force of pornography, but it is just that.
We must take the battle to the polls, to the public square, and to our knees in petition to the Lord.