But we were wrong.
According to The Smart Set, porn videos get rented in hotel rooms about once a month. So why are some Christian groups trying so hard to eliminate even the option of renting a dirty movie when you're sleeping away from home?
Tom Minnery, the senior vice president of government and public policy at Focus on the Family, claims it's because pornography is "especially dangerous in hotels because it can become addictive and create a sexualized climate that puts men, women and children at risk."
That's why his organization met recently with the higher ups at Marriott International to convince the hotel behemoth to keep all viewing, paid or not, family friendly.
We, of course, would like to see something else eliminated from hotel rooms. You see, when we were kids, every hotel we stayed in had either The Bible or The Book of Mormon in the nightstand drawer, and we know that's still the case in many rooms across the country.
As Greg Beato writes:
[F]or the last 20 years or so, hotel rooms have presented their occupants with a quintessential test of free will, the spirit or the flesh. The contest isn't exactly a fair one, because the Bible is free and the porn is ridiculously expensive. But even with that advantage working in the Bible's favor, the decency advocates apparently have so little faith in Western culture's most revered book they don't believe it can hold the average person's attention — at least when pitted against the likes of Spring Break Pantyhoes. That may not be the greatest blasphemy one can commit, but surely it's amongst the saddest.
Amen, Brother Greg.
[The Smart Set: A Room With No View]
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