How is it that Conservatives and folks on the Religious Right are always obsessed with sex but never violence? Is it because the rest of us look like we’re having fun and they hate us for it?
Start with the perpetually whiny, Parents Television Council whose mission statement is “to restore responsibility and decency to the entertainment industry.” Not quite sure what planet they’re from but decency has never been a hallmark of the entertainment industry. Scantily clad women have been a mainstay since the 1890s with burlesque dancers and stag films.
So the PTC and their friends don’t like skin or rhythmic gyrations. But when faced with with actual violence we never hear a peep out of them. So instances of homophobic bulling? Hate crimes? Teen suicide? Gun violence? Nope… they’re worried about “decency”.
So the CBS sitcom $#*! My Dad Says, singer Cee Lo Green’s lyrics, Miley Cyrus’ underwear, and now MTV’s lame version of the UK hit Skins. These are the all powerful signs of the cultural Apocalypse that will overturn the greatness of America. Never mind the fact that none of those can put a bullet in your head.
And yet that’s not stopping more than 300 churches nationwide from celebrating National Porn Sunday on Feb. 6. So rather than enjoying the Super Bowl, members will watch a video sermon featuring current and former NFL players talking about their struggles with pornography. NPR that bastion of lefty thought covered the story:
Pornography is the elephant in the pews, says Craig Gross, who produced the video and whose sermon is featured in it. “The statistics say that 48 percent of Christian families are dealing with the issue of pornography in their home,” Gross says. “I would say the other 52 percent are just unaware of it being an issue in their house.”
Gross is the founder of XXXChurch.com, a Christian ministry that tries to help people resist pornography. He says Christians know there’s a problem: His website has as many as 300,000 visitors a week. But churches are squeamish.
“The reality is most churches are scared to talk about this, I believe, because pastors themselves are struggling with this,” Gross says.
National PornSunday Teaser from XXXchurch on Vimeo.
According to a survey by Pastor Rick Warren’s website, Pastors.com, 54 percent of pastors have looked at pornography in the past year. Gross says evangelicals have plenty to say about sexual morality — as well as infidelity, sex before marriage and homosexuality — but when it comes to pornography, they need to do more than lob arguments.
“Instead of the church boycotting or picketing or legislating against pornography, if the church would just stop consuming porn, we’d put a big dent in the porn industry,” Gross says. That’s what Gross is trying to do, with online forums and workshops. Gross says a million people have downloaded free software that monitors where you go online and sends a report to an accountability partner, such as a friend or spouse.
I guess its like alcohol, the first step is admitting that you have a problem. Unlike the sexist “Christians” over at Christ Wire.org who can’t get enough and are worried about the dreaded power of vajazzling.
There is a grave and sinister new threat facing our college sons nationwide. College girls are now “vajazzling” their privates with jewels in efforts to tempt our solid, young men into fornicating with them and having babies.
Females are distracting young men from their studies, hindering their academic progress and dreams of becoming the doctors, lawyers and corporate executives of the next generation.
In the 1950s and before, things were much better on campuses nationwide. At that point in time, women were still more inclined to stay at home and raise a family, as nature intended.
Here’s a thought… I went to twelve years of Catholic school. They assumed that we would drink and we would fool around as teenagers are prone to do. So we learned about safe sex in junior high. And that was it. There was no attempt to scare us into phony abstinence promises or trying to convince us that the naked human body is evil and a guaranteed ticket to Hell. Our spiritual time was spent on learning what Jesus did for sick and the poor– or what Glenn Beck likes to demonize as “social and economic justice”.
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The only people who think about sex as much as the Religious Right are people who actually work in the porn industry — and they have a reason to. It’s how they make their living. I don’t see how this sex obsession leads to salvation or the common good — and isn’t that what religious figures are supposed to be doing to earn THEIR living? From where I sit, the Religious Right has pretty much become the sex industry’s marketing department. (Hey, where can I get one of those cool burlesque costumes? That one is awesome.)
I will have to respectfully disagree with Jill Monroe. the Religiuos Right thinks about porn much more than anyone in the porn industry. At the end of the day, I am almost positive, that Katie Morgan goes home and thinks about something other than sex like…I need to pick up dog food on the way home. Must remember to return the Wire dvd to the video store. What should I have for dinner?