Southern Baptist church leaders are blaming their difficulties staffing youth pastor positions not on any lack of appeal due to anachronistic dogma, racial divisions or sex abuse scandals, but on “the proliferation of pornography.”
Southern Baptist religious leaders have compared the current War on Porn in general — and the attack on Pornhub, in particular — to the early Church fight against “pagan culture” and have asked for state censorship of all pornography, calling this constitutionally-protected exercise of free speech “an individual private indulgence” that combines “sexual abuse and trafficking” and “the lie that a fleeting sexual high is at the core of what it means to be human.”
In another sign that the Internet Protocol TV industry is gaining speed, Microsoft and set-top device maker Scientific-Atlanta announced an agreement this week to work together on hardware for a rollout of the service by telecom giant SBC.
Communications conglomerate SBC Communications Inc. has entered into a joint venture with digital video recorder manufacturer 2Wire Inc. and formed a new subsidiary aimed at creating a service to compete with TiVo.
There’s no let up in the steam pushing broadband. And that’s good news for the online adult industry, which contributes billions to the economy. SBC Communications Inc. said it will spend between $4 billion to $6 billion to build a network capable of high-speed broadband, digital television and voice-over Internet protocol technology services.
