Utah- It’s not typically socially acceptable to saunter into the office wearing little or nothing. Bobby Udall doesn’t want images of scantily clad people popping up on his personal computer, either.

Udall is the alumnus president of the Davy Crockett Society at Utah Valley State College, a group started at the school last year. Thursday, Udall and members of the club rallied to stop Internet pornography.

Udall said pornography should be regulated for the “mere fact that it is disturbing” and that images found on accident can stick in people’s heads.

“There’s always the potential there for destruction,” Udall said.

The group set up a table in the Liberal Arts building, played an interview with Ted Bundy, a serial killer who claims his problems began with pornography, and asked passersby to sign a petition that would limit the availability of pornography on the Internet.

The petition, which the group plans to present to Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, advocates legislation that would zone pornographic material, so it is only available to those who specifically set their Internet browsers to be able to access it.

“If you want pornography, you have to sign up,” Udall said.

When asked if the legislation infringes on First Amendment rights, Udall said he is just giving people choices.

“Freedom of speech is not free in all circumstances,” Udall said.

In 2005, the Utah Legislature passed a bill that would have created an adult content registry of Internet sites that contained material harmful to minors. It would have required Internet Service Providers to prevent access to Internet materials harmful to minors and sites on the adult content registry — if requested by consumers — with filters to be checked at least annually by the state Division of Consumer Protection.

Later that year, the American Civil Liberties Union of Utah, and others, filed a federal lawsuit against that law. In 2006 a judge ruled in favor of a preliminary injunction preventing the enforcement of parts of the law, according to the ACLU of Utah’s Web site. This year, the state Legislature approved amendments to the law, which removed the adult content registry portion and the requirement for ISPs — at the request of a customer — to block access to sites that would have been on that list.

Damian MacNeill, a senior studying political science, who helped found the UVSC group, said the legislation the group supports would create a similar restriction to those placed on adult clubs by cities.

“It doesn’t limit anyone’s rights. It just makes it so you’re less able to run across it,” MacNeill said.

The petition had more than 200 signatures by Thursday afternoon. Udall said signers included both men and women.

David King, a senior studying psychology, said he put his name on the petition because he knows the destructive power of pornography.

“I’ve kind of seen first hand what it can do to someone,” Kind said.

King said his grandfather’s life was ruined by pornography because it destroyed his marriage and left his relationships with his children in bad shape.

The Davy Crockett Society was formed by Udall and his friends as a non-partisan group to promote what they call traditional American values and to take action.

Brittani Lusk can be reached at 344-2549 or at [email protected].