July 29, 2007

• Is pornography a sin?

   

  
  

  

  
  

  Is pornography a sin?
  
  Veteran adult director and male talent, Rod Fontana (aka Ronald Boyer) thinks so.  He recently got religion and is asking some hard questions about the morality of the adult industry.
  
  The following is from a New Yorks Times article reprinted in the Taipei Times.

  
  

  
  

   "Is pornography a sin?" Boyer asked on the [live Internet] show, which is aimed at people in the sex industry. "Probably. Definitely," he answered, a response that reflected his own ambivalence as much as a desire not to alienate his audience. "So is eating carrot cake until you're sick to your stomach," he continued. "And so is punching somebody in the face. That's a sin."

  
  

  Boyer's embryonic ministry, devoted to bringing spiritual comfort to those marginalized by the sex industry, is driven by his deep faith and by a medical crisis that threatened the life of his child. But it is a work in progress, fraught with the contradictions and internal struggles of a man leaving behind a livelihood that was central to his identity.
   
  He has tired of performing in sex movies, but even now doesn't condemn it. "Not one time did Jesus refer to pornography, or homosexuality," he observed on the Internet show, which he began as a co-host in May. "Jesus could have commented. He didn't."

  
  

  Although Jesus may not have referred directly to pornography, at 2:11 Peter says, "Dearly beloved, I beeseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshy lusts, which war against the soul."
  
  Also, the author of Jesus-is-Savior.com notes that Jesus disapproved of the Pharisees for their "dirty minds."
  
  "For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven...Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery: But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart." -Matthew 5:20,27,28
  
  And on her website, Diane Dew points out the following passages from the scripture:
  
  Psalm 101:3 "I will set no unclean thing before my eyes."
  
  Philippians 4:7, 8 "Keep your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus... Whatsover things are pure... if there be any virtue... think on these things."
  
  Diane also argues that "whoremongers" are not favored in Heaven.
  
  Ephesians 5:5 "For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God."
  
  1 Timothy 1:10 "For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine"
  
  Hebrews 13:4 "Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge."
  
  Any Thoughts?

  
  

  -- Snowman

  
  

  P.S. -- This post was adapted from a new message thread I started on my forum today.  "Sin" clipart courtesy of ChristArt.com)

  
  

  P.S.S. -- Additional articles related to Rod Fontana's transformation:

  
  

  Is Pornography A Sin?, California Catholic Daily, 07.26.07
  Stop the Presses Before Somebody Gets Hurt, epiScope "Looking Over the Episcopal Church" Blog, 07.14.07

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