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June 3, 2007 | 8:23 am
LAS VEGAS â If Craig Gross considers Jesus Christ his best friend, why is his arm around porn’s leading man?
“We are the world. We are the children,” Ron Jeremy sings as he and Gross draw a circus crowd at the Adult Entertainment Expo here.
During the past few years, the two â a conservative Christian who considers masturbation a sin and a secular Jew who has performed in 1,900 porn flicks â have grown close and, despite diametric career choices, have come to respect and appreciate each other.“I have nothing against Ron Jeremy,” says Gross, an ordained minister who leads the anti-porn crusade XXXChurch.com “I love this guy. I love hanging out with him.”
Oh, how the war on porn has changed. The days of Christian groups prominently lobbying against obscenity are over. Enter the era of extending love and consolation to the adult industry and those touched by it.
Members of a Chatsworth church pray for the end of pornography and the healing of those it has harmed. Christian men gather to confess their Internet-fueled addiction. Rehab centers in Colorado and Kentucky provide short-term and months-long escapes more commonly used to treat drug abuse.
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ult industry, it seems every dark corner has a ministry. The former strippers of JCâs Girls. Hookers For Jesus. And XXXChurch, the Webâs â#1 Christian porn site.â
XXXChurch, which runs a Web site where people confess their struggles and offers free anti-porn software, has made the biggest splash, using gimmicks at adult conventions â like Wally the Wiener, a 25-foot inflatable penis â to lure eyes, and hopefully minds, away from depictions of depravity.
The message is simple: porn separates husbands and wives, defiles teenagersâ minds and breeds lies. A tool of the devil, it can only be cured by God.
âPeople are blind to the consequences of this. They donât realize the problems this will cause down the line,â Gross says, handing out Bibles. âThis is a lie. This is not reality. Girls arenât like this.â
That was the opening of the main story I wrote for Part V of the Daily News’ porn series, which began today. The lede was retouched by editors, but I preferred the original. Here is the rest of the story.
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Porn really does do something to people’s minds. Through my Domestic Violence work I come in contact with a lot of men who are seriously addicted to it - and have all sorts of justifications for it.
I was never for or against porn. It didn’t effect me either way until 5 years ago. Now I find it so triggering (I have PTSD) I can’t even look at it.
Interesting article though
Hey ,, a 30 ft wally the wiener is not Christian,,its sick
theses people are sick! ;;;; peter the porn puppet with Ron Jeremy telling children at a grocery porn is for adults is Sick..
I really think Ron Jeremy is behind XXX church it is a stunt by Him like the tobacco companies anti smoking campains…
I would not be surprised if Ron Jeremy started and Financed XXX Church.com.....................