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Billboards urge Christians to quit perusing porn

There are lots of good reasons to oppose the pornography industry. It's sexist. It's exploitative. It's just plain sleazy. But this is silly.

From the AP via the Houston Chronicle:

"It was like a double life," said Anderson, 33, who pastors Seventh-Day Adventist churches in DeSoto and Waxahachie near Dallas. "The most powerful thing about it is that it's a secret. Nobody knows but you ... so you're just kind of fighting yourself."

If national surveys are any indication, it's a personal battle waged by millions of Christians.

Almost 18 percent of people who called themselves born-again Christians admitted visiting Internet porn sites, according to a 2000 survey of 1,031 adults by the evangelical group Focus on the Family. In a 2002 Pastors.com survey, more than 50 percent of responding pastors reported viewing pornography in the previous year.

"It's definitely the church's dirty little secret," said Mike Foster, co-founder of the anti-porn site XXXChurch.com, which hosts online support groups for Christians trying to kick the habit.

Click here for more.

Here is a link to another fundamentalist anti-porn site mentioned in the article.

And just in case you're getting the urge, here is a link to some nudie art.

Thanks to my buddy Chris for the billboard pic link.

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