A few years ago I produced a For The Record-In-Depth segment trying to answer the question of why there's so much sin in the most outwardly religious states. It was an interesting exercise, with no simple answer from the ministers and ethicists and researchers we interviewed. Today in the Salt Lake Tribune is a story about online "adult" websites that points to Utah and some other states with a conservative reputation as have more than average subscribers to those sites. No, Alabama is not on the list of the top OR the bottom ten...somewhere in the middle 2.7 - 2.9 per thousand broadband Internet users. You can read the professor's paper online, if you like.
LOL...this same group of people are also rabid Fox Channel watchers. Fox has to be the most un-christian channel of them all.
ReplyDeleteAll this goes back to repression. Repressing what is natural to everyone just makes people want what is repressed even more.