MPAA Petition

I call on the Motion Picture Association of America and the entertainment industry to end the Motion Picture Association of America’s authority to rate the content in each and every movie that comes out in theaters or that is released on home video formats such as VHS, DVD and Blue-Ray.

Furthermore, I call on the entertainment industry to re-institute the
following MOTION PICTURE AND TELEVISION CODE OF DECENCY, to be administered by an outside group of church, synagogue, temple, and parental groups.

THE MOTION PICTURE AND TELEVISION CODE OF DECENCY

1.  The basic dignity and value of human life shall be respected and upheld.

2.  Restraint shall be exercised in portraying the taking of life.

3.  Evil, sin, crime, and wrongdoing shall not be justified.

4.  Detailed and protracted acts of brutality, cruelty, physical violence,
torture, and abuse shall not be presented.

5.  Indecent or undue exposure of the human body shall not be presented.

6.  Illicit sex relationships shall not be justified. Intimate sex scenes
violating common standards of decency shall not be portrayed. Restraint and
care shall be exercised in presentations dealing with sexual aberrations.

7.  Obscene speech, gestures or movements shall not be presented. Undue
profanity shall not be presented.

8.  Religion shall not be demeaned.

9.  Words or symbols contemptuous of racial, religious or national groups
shall not be used so as to incite bigotry or hatred.

10.  Excessive cruelty to animals shall not be portrayed, and animals shall
not be treated inhumanely.