Tennessee state Sen. Mae Beavers takes on porn: It's a 'public health crisis'
January 25, 2017 at 1:00 a.m.
| Updated January 25, 2017 at 5:10 a.m.
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The Tennessean
FILE - In this Feb. 1, 2012 file photo, Sen. Mae Beavers, R-Mount Juliet, describes her bill seeking to add more offenses to the state's methamphetamine offender registry during a Senate floor session Nashville, Tenn. Beavers helped craft legislation this session that would terminate the Court of the Judiciary in July and replace it with a 16-member Board of Judicial Conduct. (AP Photo/Erik Schelzig, File)
A resolution filed in the state Senate on Tuesday aims to officially recognize pornography as a "public health crisis" and makes men less interested in marrying.
Sen. Mae Beavers, R-Mt. Juliet, reintroduced a resolution that was filed last year that would formally declare pornography "a public health crisis, and therefore its harms are beyond the capability of the individual to address alone."
"My goodness, you can't even look at Facebook anymore without seeing something," Beavers said in an interview.
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