The following is adapted from a statement by the Pennsylvania Conference on Interchurch Cooperation, a statewide ecumenical agency. Please offer it to your city's ministers and priests to stimulate thought for sermon plans for the Sundays of Pornography Awareness Week, or whenever preaching about the evils of pornography. As the Church, we must accept the responsibility to state our opposition to the proliferation of pornographic materials in our society. It is usually distributed for monetary profit.
Pornography distorts the innate goodness and beauty of human love and sexuality.
It portrays women, men and at times, children as cheap sexual objects. Frequently, it encourages violence as a suitable means of gratifying sexual desires. Studies have indicated that pornography consumption can lead to sexually aggressive actions toward others, especially women. In short, pornography degrades us as individuals and as a society. The pornography industry is a multi-billion dollar operation which uses every available means to distribute its product.