50% of Christian Evangelicals [read: Bible Belt] are Addicted to Porn
"The poll results indicate that 50% of all Christian men and 20% of all Christian women are addicted to pornography," said Clay Jones, founder and President of Second Glance Ministries. "We directed over 100,000 inquiries to Second Glance Ministries in one year," stated ChristiaNet.com's President, Bill Cooper. "We are seeing an escalation to the problem in both men and women who regularly attend church." ~~~ The poll was conducted by ChristiaNet.com. ChristiaNet.com partnered with Second Glance Ministries in evaluating the poll. http://christiannews.christianet.com/1154951956.htm = = = ~ Red States Lead in Divorce, Teen Pregnancy and Online Porn ~ See chart: http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2009/06/27/opinion/20090627blowchart.html While conservatives fight to "defend" marriage from gays, they can't keep theirs together. According to the Census Bureau's Statistical Abstract, states that went Republican in November accounted for eight of the 10 states with the highest divorce rates in 2006. Conservatives touted abstinence-only education, which was a flop, when real sex education was needed, most desperately in red states. According to 2006 data from the Guttmacher Institute, those red states accounted for eight of the 10 states with the highest teenage birthrates. And, a study titled "Red Light States: Who Buys Online Adult Entertainment?" that was conducted by Benjamin Edelman, an assistant professor of business at Harvard Business School and published earlier this year in the Journal of Economic Perspectives found that subscriptions to online pornography sites were "more prevalent in states where surveys indicate conservative positions on religion, gender roles, and sexuality" and in states where "more people agree that 'I have old-fashioned values about family and marriage.'" They could avoid this hypocrisy by focusing more on what happens in their own bedrooms and avoiding the trap of judging what goes on in everyone else's. Read full article here: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/27/opinion/27blow.html?_r=2
