Georgia Congressman Paul Broun says the Department of Defense continues to sell pornographic material on American military installations – despite a clear law banning the sales. He says the DOD is circumventing the law.

“The Department of Defense is utilizing a loophole, a huge loophole, in the current law to continue to sell this material.”

Congressman Broun introduced the Military and Honor and Decency Act in an effort to close that loophole. Patrick Trueman of the Alliance Defense Fund, says that only some pornography has been eliminated.

“They continue to sell Playboy and Penthouse and other pornographic magazines on the notion they’re not sexually explicit. Well, that would come as news to many, especially Hugh Hefner.”

Trueman says even if the bill passes, it will have some resistance.

“I think that there’s still, no matter what language, you will have some in the pentagon who don’t to remove all the pornography from military bases.”

Broun says he’s concerned because the repercussions from all forms of pornography are far reaching.

“It erodes the family as a primary building block of society and it denigrates the moral standing of our troops both here and abroad.”

He says a Department of Defense committee is supposed to review materials sold on installations. Last year that committee ruled that Playboy and Penthouse were not pornographic.