We have an elephant in the room America: Porn. Tony read me part of a Wall Street Journal article today which broke my heart, drove me prostrate to the living room floor, weeping and praying.
The America of white picket fences, safety in neighborhoods, little boys playing at the local school ground, little girls riding bikes down the street to the Drug Store are over. More than over.
No matter how you and I feel about porn, we are supporting it. Yep. Our consumer dollars are going to one of the most degrading, disgusting businesses in the world. Porn.
From the WSJ:
Spurred by changes in technology that make pornography easier to order into the home than pizza, and court decisions that offer broad legal protection, the business of selling sexual desire through images has become a $10 billion annual industry in the United States, according to Forrester Research of Cambridge, Mass., and the industry's own Securities and Exchange Commission filings.
The General Motors Corporation, the world's largest company, now sells more graphic sex films every year than does Larry Flynt, owner of the Hustler empire. The 8.7 million Americans who subscribe to DirecTV, a General Motors subsidiary, buy nearly $200 million a year in pay-per-view sex films from satellite, according to estimates provided by distributors of the films, estimates the company did not dispute.
AT&T Corporation, the nation's biggest communications company, offers a hard- core sex channel called the Hot Network to subscribers to its broadband cable service. It also owns a company that sells sex videos to nearly a million hotel rooms. Nearly one in five of AT&T's broadband cable customers pays an average of $10 a film to see what the distributor calls "real, live all-American sex not simulated by actors."
At&t is on of the largest phone and Direct TV providers. If you switch, that company offers the same. Own a GM vehicle? They're propagating porn.
Even so, most of these companies are not talking about it opening in the board rooms. They don't go ask at the quarterly meeting, "Hey, how's the porn revenue?"
These companies trade on the NY Stock Exchange. Some of your 401K money might come from porn!
More from the WSJ:
Some of the most popular Web properties which feature quick links to sites labeled "Virgin Sluts" and "See Teens Have Sex" are owned by a publicly held company in Boulder, Colo. New Frontier Media, has stock traded like any other, and it expects its video network to be in 25 million homes within a few years. It does business with several major companies, including EchoStar and In Demand, the nation's leading pay-per-view distributor, which is owned in part by AT&T, Time Warner, Advance-Newhouse, Cox Communications and Comcast.
Another company, LodgeNet, whose chairman is Scott C. Petersen, does $180 million in annual business selling sex videos and other forms of room entertainment to hotels. LodgeNet is a major employer in Sioux Falls, S.D., its home base. It is a client of the accounting giant Arthur Andersen, and nearly a fifth of the company's public shares are held by a Park Avenue investment firm, Red Coat Capital Management of New York.
"We feel good about what we do," said Ann Parker, a spokeswoman for LodgeNet, which trades on the Nasdaq market. "We're good corporate citizens. We contribute to local charities."
STOP!!!! Wait. Reread. "We feel good about what we do?" Really? So do slavers who stuff little girls in barrels, ship them America or wherever, then torture and kill them in snuff films.
A woman feels good about degrading and prostituting other women? Enticing "our sisters" husbands to lust and pervert their minds by viewing other women (and men?)
She feels good about wrecking marriages by their product causing men and women to get addicted to porn? She feels good about ruining and tearing apart families?
She feels good about degrading the intimacy of sex designed for marriage?
And what does she mean to imply with the statement, "we give money to local charities?" That absolves your sins? No. And keep your money.
Can we say the same to the Crack and Meth dealers. Oh, don't worry about the lives you destroy Mr. Drug Dealer. As long as your making BIG money, and give a bit to charity, feel good about what you do.
What are charities for Ms. Parker? To care for those who can't care for themselves. Ah, say single moms or abandoned children? Perhaps torn apart by oh, I don't know, drugs and porn? Alcohol? Hmmm...
Ann Parker, you need to think again about your position. Look at yourself in the mirror and say, "I feel good about selling porn to Americans and I don't care about the consequences."
I'm not fooled by your quip, "we feel good about what we do." It's the same 'tude the pro-abortionist have when you ask them about aborting America's babies.
There's more:
The biggest provider of hard-core sex videos and adult Web content, Vivid Entertainment Group of Van Nuys, Calif., whose founders and principal owners are Steven Hirsch and David James, has been making the rounds of investment bankers of late, preparing for an initial public stock offering next year that could ultimately lead to the first porn billionaire.
Just like the Yahoo and Google boys. This is where we've slumped to and no one is crying foul. Come on, Believers, bend the knees. Pray!
Jesus said it and we see it, "The love of money is the root of all evil."
I wept this morning for my country and the amazing amount of Evil we now call good.
Wake up. It's time to pray. It's time to return to the Lord.
WAKE UP!
Romans 13:11 - Do this, knowing the time, that it is already the hour for you to awaken from sleep; for now salvation is nearer to us than when we believed.
Ephesians 5:14 - For this reason it says, Awake, sleeper, And arise from the dead, And Christ will shine on you."
Isaiah 57: 7 - Let the wicked forsake his way, And the unrighteous man his thoughts;
And let him return to the LORD, And He will have compassion on him,
And to our God, For He will abundantly pardon.
Rachel Hauck lives in central Florida with her husband. She is an '85 graduation from The Ohio State Univerisity and traveled internationally as a software trainer. But, writing is her love, ans she hopes to spread the fragrance of Jesus with her words. Her current release is SWEET CAROLINE coming February 2008.
Check out all of her books and musings on her web site at www.rachelhauck.com
It's horrible. And it's not just the non-Christians. We had a friend fired from his job because of what he was viewing on his computer. It's everywhere and it's tempting. I'll be praying...and you can bet that should I ever sell a manuscript, it will address the topic.
Posted by: Angela Meuser | April 01, 2008 at 11:46 PM