Porn Use by Christians, Etc.
The World Magazine article “Porn Again” has distressing news about the prevalence of pornography in Christian homes. An internet survey conducted by Rick Warren of Saddleback Church in 2002 found 30 percent of 6,000 pastors had viewed internet porn in the last 30 days. A Christianity Today Leadership Survey in 2001 reported 37 percent of pastors have viewed internet porn. Family Safe Media reports 53 percent of men belonging to the Christian organization Promise Keepers visit porn sites every week. One in seven calls to Focus on the Family’s Pastoral Care Hotline is related to internet pornography. Today’s Christian Woman in 2003 found that one in six women, including Christians, struggles with pornography addiction. … A 2002 study by the London School of Economics found nine of 10 children between ages 8 and 16 had viewed internet pornography. The report found most of those cases to be unintentional. Recovered porn addict Mark Laaser testified of such unintentional discoveries before Congress five years ago, reporting that one 8-year-old girl’s internet search for “Cinderella” produced an image-laden, pornographic adaptation of the innocent fairy tale.
A 2003 survey from Internet Filter Review reported that 47 percent of Christians admit pornography is a major problem in their homes.
The laws are weak, have been under assault from the judiciary, and have been weakly enforced. From the same article:
Again, the act lasted only one year, as the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals declared it unconstitutional in 1999. In May 2002, the Supreme Court determined the reason for that ruling insufficient and sent the issue back to the 3rd Circuit Court for reexamination. The court once again struck down the act as unconstitutional, and this time, upon Supreme Court review last June, the ruling stood. Only the Children’s Internet Protection Act of 2000 remains in effect, though not for lack of challenge. This skimpy provision requires that public libraries employ internet filters on public computers. No legislation has succeeded in limiting the rights of pornographers in any way.
The Communications Decency Act of 1996, which prohibited pornographers from knowingly transmitting indecent messages to minors, fell in 1997 after a challenge from the American Civil Liberties Union on the grounds of First Amendment free-speech rights. In 1998, the Child Online Protection Act sought more modest regulations, forcing all commercial distributors of cyber-porn to block minors by requiring credit-card numbers.
May 3rd, 2005 at 6:33 am
It was clear in my 1950′s “Christian” upbringing that there was such hysteria about acted-out heterosexual sex that anything under the radar — pronography and covert homosexuality — was considered safer. It didn’t leave anyone embarrassingly pregnant.
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