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AUG 131980 <br />BOOK 44 PAGE 255 <br />THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS THEREUPON RECESSED'AT <br />12:15 O'CLOCK P.M. FOR LUNCH AND RECONVENED AT 1:45 O'CLOCK P.M. WITH <br />THE SAME MEMBERS PRESENT. DEPUTY CLERK VIRGINIA HARGREAVES TOOK OVER <br />FOR DEPUTY CLERK JANICE CALDWELL FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE MEETING. <br />DISCUSSION RE REGULATIONS AGAINST PORNOGRAPHY - RESOLUTION 80-78 <br />IN SUPPORT OF STRICTER ENFORCEMENT OF EXISTING PORNOGRAPHY LAWS <br />PASTOR ,JAMES MCCLAIN OF TREASURE COAST CATHEDRAL APPEARED <br />BEFORE THE BOARD AS SPOKESMAN FOR THE CONCERNED CITIZENS. HE STATED <br />THAT HE PERSONALLY HAD DEBATED THIS ISSUE AS TO WHETHER OR NOT THERE <br />IS A SERIOUS PROBLEM AND HAD COME TO THE CONCLUSION THAT IT IS SERIOUS <br />ENOUGH TO BRING TO THE COUNTY COMMISSION. HE NOTED THAT THERE WERE <br />FIVE PASTORS PRESENT REPRESENTING VARIOUS CHURCHES, AND NO ORGANIZED <br />EFFORT HAD BEEN MADE TO REACH ALL THE PASTORS. PASTOR MCCLAIN PRE- <br />SENTED THE CHAIRMAN WITH PETITIONS SIGNED BY APPROXIMATELY EOD RESI- <br />DENTS STATING AS FOLLOWS: "WE THE UNDERSIGNED WANT IT KNOWN BY THOSE <br />IN RESPONSIBLE POSITIONS THAT WE ARE NOT IN AGREEMENT WITH THE SALE OF <br />ANY PORNOGRAPHIC LITERATURE OR DEVICES TO ADULTS OR MINORS IN INDIAN <br />RIVER COUNTY." SAID PETITIONS ARE ON FILE IN THE OFFICE OF THE CLERK. <br />PASTOR MCCLAIN INFORMED THE BOARD THAT THEY HAVE GONE <br />THROUGH THE CITY OF VERO BEACH AND THE STORES AND HAVE PURCHASED <br />MAGAZINES THAT ARE CLASSIFIED BY THE STATE AS OBSCENE OR SEX-RELATED <br />MAGAZINES. HE NOTED THAT IN A BILL PASSED BY THE LEGISLATURE, THE <br />NEW ADDITION -TO THE LAW STATES THAT: <br />(b) It is harmful for any one offering for sale in a retail . <br />esta ishment o' c any book, ma aai.ne or <br />otherprinted materia the content o whic h ex olts i is <br />devoted to or is princioal made u of descri2tions or <br />o <br />d_epictxois nudity which is harmful to minors, to nowin 1 <br />exhibit such books# ma azines or material in such estab l.shment <br />n such a way that it is within the convenient reach of minors <br />who may frequent t a rafAi i- <br />PASTOR MCCLAIN CONTINUED THAT "HIGH LIFE," "HIGH TIMES," <br />AND "HUSTLER," WHICH DEPICT EITHER SEX OR DRUGS ARE LOCATED ON THE <br />SHELVES OF SOME LOCAL STORES WITH THE OTHER MAGAZINES, AND THEY ARE <br />