“Weiler was the sponsor of Utah’s resolution declaring pornography a public health crisis, as well as legislation that allows parents to sue pornographers for the cost of counseling that children may need after viewing smut. He says he became convinced that the obscenity and pornography complaints office may be needed because of an ad campaign attacking Cosmopolitan magazine as illegal porn.

“I’ve received some complaints since this [ad] campaign started that stores are selling Cosmo at eye level to a child,” he said. “There’s no blinder rack on it, even though we have some blinder rack language in the state code.””