WASHINGTON - Americans concerned about the floodtide of pornography pouring into homes, the workplace and even churches are urged to raise their voices about the harms of sexual addictions that many believe is devastating the country.
"Our nation ... faces a moral crisis, giving rise, among other things, to teen promiscuity, sexually transmitted diseases (including AIDS), abortions, children born to single mothers, divorces, sexual abuse of children, sexual harassment, rape, and trafficking in women and children," said Robert W. Peters, president of Morality in Media, which is spearheading a national awareness campaign. "It is clear that the explosive increase in the availability of hardcore pornography is helping to fuel this moral crisis."
The 20th annual White Ribbons Against Pornography (WRAP) Week kicked off on Sunday as a yearlong effort to combat the spread of porn across the American culture and to push for the enforcement of federal obscenity laws.
Conservative groups including Focus on the Family, Concerned Women for America (CWA), American Mothers, Inc., and GirlsAgainstPorn.com have joined Morality in Media this week to raise public awareness of the harmful effects of porn and to call for a respect for sexual virtue.
"Seventy-five percent of convicted rapists admit they were acting out what they had seen in pornography, and 80 percent of child molesters admit their spiral down began with pornography," noted CWA president Wendy Wright.
Over the last decade, employers have cracked down on those who view online pornography at work, but with laptop computers, cell phones and BlackBerrys and other portable devices providing wireless access to the Internet, reports indicate that porn viewing at work is still a major problem.
"Liability is the thing that keeps me up at night, because we are liable for things people do on your premises. It's serious," said Richard Laermer, CEO of the public relations firm RLM, according to ABC News. "I'll see somebody doing it, and I'll peek over their shoulder, and they'll say, 'I don't know how that happened.' It's like 10-year-olds. And it's always on company time."
The majority of U.S. adults say viewing pornographic websites and videos is morally unacceptable, according to a 2006 survey commissioned by Morality in Media. Younger Americans (ages 18 to 34) are more likely to think viewing porn is morally acceptable compared to 35- to 54-year-olds.
"A disturbingly larger number of our nation’s youth and young adults are viewing pornography, and they don’t even see this as a moral problem!" said Peters. "Our nation has failed miserably in shielding minors from pornography."
Explicit sex scenes bordering pornography have increasingly hit the television airwaves this season, raising eyebrows among critics who say it's too much.
"This season I think cable has pushed the limit of acceptability of sex on television as far as it could possibly go," Mary Murphy of TV Guide commented on CNN. Murphy believes several shows, such as HBO's "Tell Me You Love Me," are bordering on obscene.
Explicit sex scenes are even found on network TV including ABC's "Dirty, Sexy, Money."
"When I'm looking at some of these shows, I say to myself 'What is the difference between this show and porn?' I look at it two ways. I look at it as a critic and a reporter and I say 'Is it essential?' I don't think so," said Murphy. "And then I look at it as a daughter and a mother, and I pray that neither my mother nor my daughter will ever walk into the room while this is on television." Continue >>
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Dead churches and religious Christians wake up. Our children and youth are viewing porn at an alarming rate, even as they sit in our tax supported public schools; and yearly our child on child cases of child molestation continue to rise AND their offense are duplicates of the porn they are viewing right under the nose of teachers and parents.
We must stay in warefare...stomping the head of this serpent for our children. Wake up oh children of God and stand firm for our children and familes.
Thank you for reminding us of the above sin. Yes, if we claimed ourselves as Christians, we should make a difference, set apart from the rest. Ask God for strength to live a holy and an acceptable life We do not want our children to be abused because of our adults's stubborn lust and behaviour. WAKE UP CHRISTIAN HUSBANDS TO GOD'S CALL FOR MORNING QUIET TIME WITH HIM AND NOT HAVING CYBERSEX or flirting with chats with foreign women or surfing porns!! If God is speaking to you,please respond to God's warning., dear brothers.
Seek higher pleasure in worshipping God, Seek intimacy with God, seek pleasure in serving God. direct your energy in doing good. this will help overcome pronography.
Psalm 101:3 I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me.
Matthew 5:28 But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.
Luke 4:18 , 19 The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.
John 17:17 Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.
There are too many in the ministry today who are not anointed to preach. They have replaced the sword of the Spirit with a contemporary light-saber that looks and sounds cool in the dark. When truth is neglected or refused, sin will flourish; and sanctification will subside.
I hate to be the dispatcher of bad news, but everytime there's a story like this on the Christian Post, there's virtually no discussion or even entries made. And why would that be? Hmm....could it be that half ot the men who attend the "churches" in this country are themselves sinning against God and their wives and families and other believers by indulging in pornography secretly, silently, and while their families are asleep, or maybe they are indulging in some phone-type sexual encounters or imagining at work, at play, or even in church?
This is a VERY SERIOUS problem, Believers!! And it's time to WAKE UP!!!! Rarely do you hear the voices from the pulpit on this, as if no one wants to get offended, or hear about it, or even admit that a problem exists. Can anyone say "DENIAL?" And what about the sexual abuse of children or women? Can it be that the ministers of the Gospel are just as guilty as the Catholic pedophile priests, who continue to offend????
We need the power of the Holy Spirit to engulf us, but before that we need to REPENT for the sins of this nation and the church!! If not, let me tell you that this floodtide will turn into a TIDAL WAVE, and the lukewarm believers among us will be swept away, and only those who have found their strength in Christ will remain!!!
REPENT, CHURCH, FOR THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS AT HAND!!!!