Churches confront an 'elephant in the pews'

[RobertSeattle]

(And by elephant they do not mean GOP)
(Mark you calendar - National Porn Sunday - Oct. 9)
http://search.csmonitor.com/search_content/0825/p14s01-lire.html

On a blustery day early this year, 13,000 people showed up at Mars Hill Bible Church in Grand Rapids, Mich., for what became known as "Porn Sunday." Two young California pastors with a website called XXXchurch.com - "the No. 1 Christian porn site" - were in town with a silence-breaking message.

Their frank talk about the struggles many Christians are having with pornography has drawn huge crowds in several churches across the country, and now the Revs. Craig Gross and Mike Foster are planning National Porn Sunday for Oct. 9.

"We were tired of hearing stories about people's lives being wrecked, and feeling they had nowhere to go in the church to get help," says Mr. Gross. He and Mr. Foster hope to engage 200 churches in talking openly about "America's dirty little secret" and are offering resources to help them initiate healing programs for their congregations.

(More at link)

[Lars39]

1. A few years ago I was once in correspondence with a lady that had a site

that kept getting hijacked by Dobson's XXXchurch. She was detailing how the "church" operated and who was behind it. She'd no sooner get her site fixed when it would start rerouting folks to the XXXchurch web page again.

[reformedrepub]

2. what

families are being destroyed by someone looking at naked pictures on a computer? Must have been something wrong there to begin with. In my opinion more families have been destroyed by stupid puritannical views of fundies than anything else!! (ie not living together before marriage, not having sex before marriage and women having to surrender their life ambitions after getting married) and Im a happily married (12 years) male!!!

[mongo]

3. I never could figure out

if these guys were serious or just out to make a buck. Their site looks more like parady.

They also buy a booth and set up at all the adult industry trade shows. Nice way to get your jollies and be "rightous" about it.