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ship activist, anticipates an increase
in anti-obscenity activity.
"I think it's going to get much
worse. I think that there's a fairly
strong possibility that (rap group 2
Live Crew member) Luther Camp-
bell will actually do jail time. I cer-
tainly think he's going to be con-
victed and I don't think the Supreme
Court is going to uphold his consti-
tutional liberties; I think they are
going to uphold the law," Marsh
said. Campbell and another member
of the rap group were arrested for an
allegedly obscene performance in
Broward County, Fla. last June.
"I think censorship law is going
to get changed for the worse and I
think it's part of a generalized fight,"
Marsh continued. "I think they [the
government] are totally willing to
see everyone go down."
Wildmon agrees that the law will
dictate a decrease in allegedly offen-
sive material. "The pendulum will
swing in the other direction," he
said. "It's beginning to swing now."
But Wildmon also believes the
process will evolve slowly. "It took
25 years to get in the situation we're
in," he said, referring to the 25-year-
old National Endowment for the
Arts, a grant that has funded projects
Wildmon feels are obscene. "It will
take us 25 years to get out."
This process of "getting out" and
the means to bring the process about
will dictate the major socio-political
topic of the decade, said the director
of the AFA's Michigan chapter, Bill
Johnson.
"I think the obscen-
ity/pornography issue is going to be
the issue of the 1990s," Johnson
said. "I believe there will be contin-
ued discussion about censorship
from those who profit from selling
pornography. There will be talk
from dads, moms, grandmas and
grandpas about responsibility."
Marsh said the rise in music cen-
sorship is a result of political dy-
namics. "I would say that the differ-
ence between then and now is the at-
tack of the '80s and '90s as com-
pared to the '50s and '60s is simply
that the lunatic fringe of the right
and the Christian community is now
in political power and has a much
greater ability to verbally assassinate
and vilify and censor," Marsh said.
Rae Cline, one of the organizers
of Ann Arbor-based Sense Against
Censorship, an anti-censorship ac-
tivist group, said she believes the'
current anti-obscenity wave is a re-
sult of the need for a scapegoat.
"It's not coincidental that it (the
anti-obscenity movement) happens
at the same time that communism is
no longer a viable threat. I mean,
maybe with this Persian Gulf crisis,
people will start leaving artists
alone."
But Lynn said the uproar is just
the result of cultural short-sighted-
ness. "I think because people don't
understand the political message of a
lot of this material, they want to
suppress it, the culture they don't
understand," he said.
"In general, majorities in the
United States don't understand art.
Maybe art isn't for the majorities,
maybe television is for the majori-
ties."
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