Article: Baptist Sunday school teaching about `secret sin' of pornography

An X-rated Sunday school lesson? Not exactly. But Southern Baptists have been talking about the "secret sin" of pornography in their Sunday school classes nationwide.

A Sunday school lesson on "How to Reject Pornography" for young adults and those older says that many church members particularly men are consumers of pornography.

"We realize pornography is an issue facing society. And given the number of users of pornography, we know people in the church use it, too," said Ross McLaren, a Baptist biblical studies specialist. "Even children have access to it now, through the Internet." McLaren cites James Lambert's "Porn in America," published in 1997 by Huntington House, which says ...

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