165 Jordanhill Drive,
Glasgow G13 1UQ, 17th January 1972
The Editor, Free Presbyterian Magazine,
Free Presbyterian Manse, Laig, Sutherland.
Dear Sir,
May I inform your readers of the Nationwide Petition for Public Decency which has been launched by the National Viewers’ and Listeners’ Association with the support of the Festival of Light.
This Petition calls upon the Government to ensure:
- That the present Obscenity Law be reformed in order to make it an effective instrument for the maintenance of public decency.
- That the Obscenity Law be amended to cover broadcasting, at present exempt from such control.
- That special legislation be introduced to safeguard school children from exposure to teaching material portraying behaviour which, when performed in public, would constitute an offence against public decency.
The Government needs to be left in no doubt as to the strength of public feeling in this matter.
Further information and copies of the Petition are available from the above address.
Yours faithfully,
Ben Davis.