My first hypocrite of 2010 is not a pastor. No, it’s a classic anti-porn crusader named Larry Jones, founder of the Christian charity, Feed the Children. Jones is fighting allegations that he kept hard core pornography in his office.
Jones claims the magazines were research for a book.
He specifically said the alleged bribes were above-board payments to him and that the magazines were research for a new novel, "The Zipper Disease,” about AIDS in Africa.
Do you really need to have porn to research a book on AIDS in Africa? That sounds a little odd.
As an evangelist in the 1970s, Jones crusaded against pornography. In his book, "Keep Walking,” Jones wrote he even bought a bulletproof vest because of multiple death threats early in his campaign. Jones said Tuesday he intended to send the magazines to a Nashville ghost writer, Tom Carter, to explain to the writer how bad pornography has become. He said the ghost writer is helping him with a series of novels, including "The Zipper Disease.”
"I’m not a dirty, old man. All of this was done for research,” Jones said.
Sorry Jones, your story does not not ring true. I don’t see the link to Africa in your source material.
The attorneys identified some of the publications as Family Affairs, Taboo’s Family Heat, Best of Family Touch, Penthouse Secret Fantasies, The Penthouse Sex Files, Penthouse Forum, Best of Forum Letters, Penthouse Letters, Penthouse, Penthouse Variations and Playboy.
Is pornography wrong? No, at least I don’t think so. What consenting adults do for a living is their own business. When adults consume pornography, that too is their own business. When people like Larry Jones build their pastoral reputation on campaigning against pornography, they become hypocrites when they consume the products they rail against. It’s among the worst sort of hypocrisy too, the “do what I say” type.
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