In these uncertain times, it’s good to know that you can still count on some things. Like that some politicians cannot resist making a big fuss over a little pornography.

The University of Maryland at College Park today canceled a screening of a XXX-rated movie after some state legislators threatened to cut the institution’s funds, The Sun reported. A student programming committee had chosen the movie, Pirates II: Stagnetti’s Revenge, which was scheduled to be screened at the student union this weekend.

But at Maryland’s State House today, the movie caused minor tremors. Senators debated “the evils of pornography” and the First Amendment for much of the morning, the Baltimore newspaper reported. “That’s really not what Maryland residents send their young students to college campus for, to view pornography,” said the Senate’s president, Thomas V. Mike Miller Jr., a Democrat. Another legislator suggested amending the state’s budget to deny funds to any public college that showed a XXX movie.

Following “behind the scenes” negotiations between state officials and the university, College Park’s president, C.D. Mote Jr., decided to cancel the movie, according to The Sun.

Pirates II, released in 2008, cost $10-million to make—an industry record. Its marketing slogan was “Proceed at Yer Own Risk.” —Eric Hoover