Please Keep These Folks in

Please Keep These Folks in Prayer

As I mentioned earlier, after doing a spate of annulment cases for various tribunals that involve people who were either addicted to pornography or involved in some capacity with the so-called "adult entertainment" industry, I'm hoping to write some sort of article in the next year. Anyway, after a couple of bad starts while trying to conduct research (and a sharp increase of the worst types of porn spam to my email account), I'm managed to find a number of pro-Christian as well as feminist sites that both offer hard statistics and share the experiences of those who are victims of pornography. Here's one particularly good website: Victims of Pornography. For those who think that pornography is mostly harmless, here's one particularly haunting testimony of child pornography:

I am thirty years old, married, with two young children, and have been on disability due to mental illness for the past eight years. I was born into an insane family where my grandfather physically and sexually abused me from a young age until I was fifteen. Part of what he did was send me to strangers' homes for child prostitution where I was also used for child pornography. My grandfather would take pictures of me, as well as show me haunting pictures of other kids who looked drugged and dazed.

May is Victims of Pornography Month. By victims, we should include the so-called performers. One of the ugliest truths I've discovered from a goverment report is that my hometown, Sudbury, is Canada's child-prostitution capital. (I found this even more disturbing than Christianity Today's following survey which determined that one in three ministers visited on-line pornography websites in the past year.) From the various feminist websites, I also came across various statistics corroborating my former experiences with Pentecostal street ministry as well as my current experiences in tribunal ministry, in that the vast majority of so-called "adult entertainers" are victims of childhood sexual abuse. Another interesting fact I dug up from ABC news is that our national security is at risk because of pornography. As veteran journalist Mike Malone asks in The Murder of Innocents, "Do you think it is a coincidence that al Qaeda hid its e-mails behind porn pictures?"