War over porn endures

Efforts to change laws find mixed results
BY BRENT D. WISTROM
The Wichita Eagle

Kansas' war over porn may never end. Every year, family values advocates, politicians and countless local governments try to push strip clubs and adult video stores farther away.
And every year, First Amendment advocates, business interests and a hint of public outcry join up and kill most of the bills that would force many sex-oriented stores out of business.
So will these tougher laws ever pass?
"It's inevitable," said Phillip Cosby, executive director of the Kansas City office of the National Coalition for Protection of Children and Families.
"They usually fail because the Constitution usually doesn't support the law," said Charlie O'Hara, a Wichita lawyer who has represented some adult-video-store owners. "It violates the Constitution. But they always come up with different theories.".....