The history of the sexual revolution and its effects on the Church

By: Steve Huston

Personal note:

First this first paragraph in review from yesterday:

This date between October 26 and November 2 is recognized by a handful of faithful Christians throughout America. It has been recognized for over 20 years. That’s a sad reality – the numbers opposing pornography vocally are fewer and fewer. The pulpit? When is the last time you heard a sermon regarding standing against pornography and/or pursuing holiness?

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I found this one page piece in Steve Gallagher’s fine publication “Unchained! [A publication of Pure Life Ministries]

The history of the sexual revolution and its effects on the Church

*** 1948 — Alfred Kinsey publishes “Sexual Behavior in the Human Male.” [Editor’s note: A special thanks to Dr. Judith Reisman and her significant research exposing Kinsey’s fraudulent research]
*** 1953 — Hugh Hefner launches Playboy Magazine
*** 1964 — Dr. Mary Calderone founds SIECUS to promote sex education in schools
*** 1968 — Troy Perry births the Metropolitan Christian Church (MCC) in Los Angeles
*** 1969 — Homosexual riot at Stonewall Inn begins gay activism
*** 1972 — William Johnson (not this William Johnson), an open homosexual is ordained by the United Church of Christ
*** 1972 — Members of the Columbo Mafia family produce Deep Throat
*** 1973 — American Psychiatric Association drops homosexuality from its list of mental disorders
*** 1975 — Adult bookstores, massage parlors, strip clubs and gay bath-houses begin to proliferate across country
*** 1982 — Video recorders introduced to public; pornographers begin producting X-rated videos by the thousands
*** 1987 — Jim Bakker exposed for affair with church secretary
*** 1988 — Jimmy Swaggart exposed for tryst with prostitute
*** 1992 — Radio preacher David Hocking resigns pastorate after affair
*** 1994 — The Internet is launched; pornographers immediately establish a presence
*** 1999 — Henry Lyons, president of the National Baptist Convention, USA, resigns after affair
2000 — Mike Trout, vice-president of Focus on the Family, resigns after affair
*** 2003 — Earl Paulk, mega-church pastor, settles out of court case over affair
*** 2004 — “Prophet” Paul Cain admits to homosexuality
*** 2004 — Over half of U.S. pastors polled admit to having viewed porn at least once during past year
*** 2005 — Pornography now grosses $12 billion in the U.S. and $57 billion worldwide annually
*** 2006 — Ted Haggard, mega-church pastor and president of the NAE, admits to homosexuality
*** 2007 — Christian survey reveals 50% of men and 20% of women polled addicted to porn
*** 2007 — Same survey shows 40% of Christian women admit to being involved in sexual sin during past year

For further information regarding Pure Life Ministries,
http://www.purelifeministries.org/

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Lastly, a practical quote from R.C. Ryles taken from “Holiness.”
[First published in 1877]
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“… True holiness does not consist merely of believing and feeling, but of doing and bearing, and a practical exhibition of active and passive grace. Our tongues, our tempers, natural passions and inclinations; our conduct as parents and children, masters and servants, husbands and wives, rulers and subjects; our dress, our employment of time, our behaviour in business, demeanour in sickness and health, in riches and in poverty-all, these are matters which are fully treated by inspired writers. They are not content with a general statement of what we should believe and feel, and how we are to have the roots of holiness planted in our hearts. They dig down lower. They go into particulars. They specify minutely what a holy man ought to do and be in his own family, and by his own fireside, if he abides in Christ. I doubt whether this sort of teaching is sufficiently attended to in the movement of the present day. When people talk of having received ‘such a blessing,’ and of having found ‘the higher life,’ after hearing some earnest advocate of ‘holiness by faith and self-consecration,’ while their families and friends see no improvement and no increased sanctity in their daily tempers and behaviour, immense harm is done to the cause of Christ. True holiness, we surely ought to remember, does not consist merely of inward sensations and impressions. It is much more than tears, and sighs, and bodily excitement, and a quickened pulse, and a passionate feeling of attachment to our own favourite preachers and our own religious party, and a readiness to quarrel with everyone who does not agree with us. It is something of ‘the image of Christ,’ which can be seen and observed by others in our private life, and habits, and character, and doings (Rom. 8:29). …”

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