FREEDOM FIGHTER As head of the Alliance Defending Freedom, has dedicated his life to one thing: Preserving liberty for people of faith.

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FEATURES DEPARTMENTS 10 Keep the Door Open 05 Dialed In for the Gospel 06 Inbox Over the last 20 years, the Alliance Defending Freedom has grown to be one of the top religious- 07 Citizen Coast liberty law firms in the nation. Here’s the story of the man at the helm. to Coast Whee! the People 16 The Life and Legacy of 08 Justice Antonin Scalia 30 Equipping U A great voice for freedom has fallen silent — and the process to replace him is sure to be caucophonous. 30 20 The Porn Phenomenon A large new study on social attitudes toward — and usage of—pornography will be revealed this month. What the Barna Group found may shock you. 27 Gosnell Speaks What makes a man a monster? A trio of documentary filmmakers finds out.

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APRIL 2016 VOL. 30, NO. 3 ISSN 1084-6832 Fly United Editor Karla Dial Do you feel the darkness tremble / When all the saints join in one song? Contributing Editors Bruce Hausknecht, Tim Goeglein, Matt Kaufman And all the streams flow as one river / To wash away our brokenness. And we can see that God, You’re moving! / A time of jubilee is coming Design Doug Fleener When young and old will turn to Jesus. / Fling wide, you heavenly gates! Production Gail Wise Prepare the way of the risen Lord!

IS YOUR TEEN Circulation Jenny Bergeron READY TO EXPRESS A he members of the British band CHRISTIAN VIEWPOINT? Vice President of Government & Public Policy Carrie Gordon Earll Christians to pray and live out their faith in every Delirious? recorded those words way possible. Another example: People from all Students often hear President 20 years ago, in 1996. As a recent over the world will be gathering at the Los Angeles confusing messages about college graduate who had even Coliseum and Sports Arena on April 9 for a day of Citizen is published 10 times a year (combined sexuality and gender— more recently had a personal en- fasting and prayer, waiting expectantly on God to issues in January/February and June/July) by Focus on the Family, a especially with more schools T counter with Jesus that turned my send the fire of revival on our nation. nonprofit organization recognized for tax-deductible giving by the federal life upside down in all the right ways, it was one of devoting entire days to government. Focus on the Family Citizen is a registered trademark of The different streams are beginning to converge promoting these topics. Focus on the Family. Copyright ©2016 Focus on the Family. All rights my favorite songs at the time. in what happens, according to the Is your teen equipped to reserved. International copyright secured. 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Ready to Go! I’m not advocating for a I just read your editorial in the certain candidate at all. It is Kansas January/February issue (“The your responsibility to study the Gov. Sam Brownback Reason For Our Hope,” about candidates and make a prayer- the “wild ride” that’s ahead ful decision. And take the time of us in 2016). All I can say is to act on that decision. WOO-HOO! I’m ready! – TALIA RANEY, VIA EMAIL —AMY SANDBERG, VIA EMAIL Digital Redirection Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback tells Election Solutions? the state Department of Health and I’m interested in your maga- Environment to halt all Medicaid Year Choices zine but not ready for my young payments to Planned Parenthood. I am writing on the subject of children that are able to read to With that, Kansas becomes the eighth state to voting and the fact that it real- read it! Do you offer a digital defund the abortion seller—freeing up more ly does make a difference. Here version? Then maybe we can taxpayer dollars to go to comprehensive health are some statistics for you to switch to the real thing when programs that serve low-income women without consider: they are older? The Law of the Land including abortion. • According to a 2012 Gallup —PAULA HINK, The South Carolina House of Rep- report, 77 percent of American “I am so VIA EMAIL resentatives passes a bill say- adults identify with a Christian impressed with ing the state won’t recognize Meetings Sustained religion. Editor’s Response: or approve Islamic sharia law, A federal court issues an order allow- • People stayed away from your magazine. Unfortunately, Citizen was on a vote of 68-42; at press time, the mea- ing a Michigan church to continue the polls in droves in the last forced to disband our digi- sure was awaiting action in the state Senate. meeting in the community rooms presidential election. According You continually tal version temporarily, due So far, eight states (Alabama, Arizona, Kan- at the public housing developments to the Center for Immigration say how it is.” to some changes in the plat- sas, Louisiana, North Carolina, South Dakota, which are home to the people it serves. The Lan- Studies, only 61.8 percent of el- form we were using. We’re Tennessee and Texas) have passed sharia-law sing Housing Commission, which allows com- igible voters turned out in 2012, – DOROTHY MORSE currently working on making bans, and more than a dozen others are con- munity groups—including other churches—to down from 63.6 percent in 2008 SPOKANE VALLEY, WASH. our Web site (citizenmagazine. sidering similar bills this session. Mean- use the public rooms told Healing Hands Church and 63.8 percent in 2004. com) more user- and mobile- while, calls for federal legislation banning it could not because its meetings are religious. It is my personal belief that friendly. For the last year, we’ve Islamic law in the U.S. continue to mount. Transporting the congregants to another location everyone eligible to vote should posted only three articles from was impossible, so Healing Hands was forced to be voting. Even though I have conservative be- each issue, but we’re now increasing that amount in hold its meetings outdoors this winter, until the liefs that many Americans would not agree with, we order to drive more traffic to it. The new content is Free to Serve ruling allowed it back in the building. Its lawsuit have all been given this gift. Thousands of our broth- added on Mondays and Thursdays. The Circuit Court of Leon County, against the housing authority is still proceeding. ers and sisters have fallen for this right that we ap- We find mobile sites are often the best way Fla., ends a nine-year court battle parently take very lightly. Let’s be honest, there has to reach Millennials and other adults with young by ruling that the state can contin- been a continual breakdown in our rights and free- children. The information we give readers is import- ue partnering with two ministries doms. Please don’t take this very important right for ant, but it’s definitely not for the very young, and to serve people just released from prison. An A Matter of State granted. we can see how it might prompt some awkward atheist group based in New York brought the The U.S. Supreme Court agrees to We get angry on the subjects of business practic- conversations around the house that are better lawsuit against Prisoners of Christ and Lamb hear a case stemming from Missouri es with LGBT communities, gun laws and abortion postponed until adolescence. Kudos to you for tak- of God Ministries, which provide food, housing, in order to answer the question of funding. And for good reason. But if we do not make ing the steps you feel are necessary to protect your employment assistance and other basic needs whether states can exclude church- a proactive choice before it happens, then we have no children’s innocence! to ex-convicts in order to lower the recidivism run groups from government programs because reason to complain. rate; the atheists offered no help, but sought to they’re religious. Missouri has done so by This isn’t in a response to an article, it’s just a shut down the programs on religious grounds. excluding a church-run daycare center from a friendly reminder that government matters a lot and Email us at: The U.S. Supreme Court will soon review a sim- program that resurfaces children’s playground apparently we have some say in it. Let’s use that. [email protected] ilar case coming from Missouri. with rubber from recycled tires.

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The evangelical community needs to recognize what the Catholic community has been doing for four decades. Focus on the Family President Jim Daly at the Evangelicals for Life conference in Washington, D.C, urging more involvement in the pro-life movement. TRUTH ON —The Washington Post, Jan. 21, 2016 TODAY So cool—your baby is n It started like a typical entertainment protecting you in the womb! promo on Today on Pro-life actress Patricia Heaton, on news Jan. 18. Hostesses that fetal cells remain in a mother’s body Kathy Lee Gifford for years, aiding her health. —Twitter, Jan. 19, 2016 and Hoda Kotb were Bad Odds chatting with actor One of the Good Guys Dean Cain about a ou probably haven’t been able to miss I was raised in a Methodist series he’s on (VH1’s ctor Neal McDonough doesn’t mind playing the bad guy. He’s done the hype lately over humongous Power- Hit the Floor). it a lot over the years. He’s doing it right now on the hit TV show Y ball prizes (over a billion dollars!) just church and I left the Baptist Then Gifford asked A Arrow as supervillain Damien Darhk. (You know it’s a comic-book waiting to be claimed by you (yes, you!). church before my dad did, Cain what else he’s show with a name like that.) So let’s end the suspense by announcing doing. But in real life, McDonough seems to be one of the good guys. the winner. Better yet, let columnist Michelle because I didn’t know why Answer: He’s in a A husband, father and Catholic, McDonough was fired from the ABC Malkin do it: they were talking to me movie called Gosnell: comedy Scoundrels back in 2010—before he even appeared on the air—be- “The biggest winner of the multistate num- America’s Biggest cause he refused to do sex scenes, passionate kisses included. He told pro- bers game is—drumroll, please—Uncle Sam.” about abortion when I was Serial Killer, playing a ducers, as one report put it, that taking part “would violate his Catholic faith That’s because the feds skim 25 percent off 6 in Sunday school—that’s detective investigating and his role as a husband and father, which he takes seriously.” the top of a lump-sum cash award, and nearly a true story. the notorious abortion- And it was far from the first time McDonough had taken that stand over 40 percent of these mega-prizes. That said, the ist convicted of multiple the years. He’d previously vetoed participation in sex scenes on other shows states are cleaning up, too—especially at the Former First Daughter Chelsea Clinton. —The Daily Wire, Feb. 10, 2016 murders. Briefly, Cain he’d been on, including Boomtown and Medical Investigation. expense of the people who can least afford it. covered Gosnell’s “It has cost him jobs, but the man is sticking to his principles,” a source “If public lottery pimps were private corpo- grisly record, including told Nikki Finke of the showbiz paper Deadline at the time of the Scoun- rate entities, they’d be charged with predatory In no way would I, nor would the many late-term drels story. That made an impression on Finke. “You can’t help but admire behavior,” Malkin writes. They saturate the air- abortions performed McDonough for sticking to his beliefs, even if he’s poised to lose as much as waves with ads around the first of the month my father, condone any ‘ends on “maybe even thou- $1 million in paydays for Scoundrels.” because that’s when the elderly and the indi- justify the means’ behavior. sands of babies.” Happily, McDonough’s stance hasn’t cost him all his jobs. On the con- gent get their checks. They buy inner-city bill- Martin Luther King III, repudiating recent violence Gifford’s response: trary, the actor who got his break on HBO’s Band of Brothers playing Lt. boards claiming that the lottery “could be your toward police and others in the name of racial justice. “Talk about a war on Buck Compton has found plenty of work over the years, including movies ticket out.” —The Washington Times, Jan. 18, 2016 women.” Kotb then like Flags of Our Fathers and Captain America and regular roles on shows And “while cracking down on ads (for) ev- chimed in: “No kidding, like Justified, Public Morals and Mob City. He’s done lots of voice work erything from cereal to toothpaste to cars,” yeah.” too, from DVDs and video games to portraying Jesus in an audio version Malkin says, the feds protect states “falsely Now sitcoms sound Not something you of the Bible. He’s currently starring as the older brother of college football promising ‘a dollar and a dream,’ ‘everyone is like they’ve been written hear often on TV. So star Brandon Burlsworth in the true-life story Greater (above), set to hit a winner’ and ‘somebody’s gotta win—might as thanks to all con- theaters this summer. well be you.’ ” by teenage boys in cerned for making Jan. But of course, McDonough couldn’t know what jobs he’d find when he Malkin craves a different approach. “Inject a locker room. 18 a day of truth on was drawing the line on other jobs. He simply had to follow his faith and this truth in inner-city Powerball billboard Legendary comedienne Carol Burnett, complaining Today. conscience and trust the Lord. advertising,” she urges: “The odds are never in of the push to make all comedies “edgy.” That sounds like our idea of a good guy. And a rare one too. your favor.” —The Hollywood Reporter, Jan. 29, 2016

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That’s the mission Alan Sears was given more than 20 years ago. And as head of the Alliance Defending Freedom, he’s been doing it every day since.

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ny way you slice it, the fan of Goldwater and talked to us about old-fashioned Alliance Defending Free- concepts like duty to our country. He had a quote in dom (ADF) has gotten Latin on the classroom wall: ‘Nothing should be more big. Very big. dear to you than the love of your country.’ That stuck The legal group has with me.” more than 3,000 allied Chase taught his class about the Founders, the Feder- attorneys in 41 nations alist Papers and the ideas behind the Constitution, tak- protecting religious lib- ing ample time to talk with students one-on-one when erty—attorneys who’ve provided more than a million they were interested—as young Alan definitely was. hours of pro bono work worth nearly $200 million. “He started me down a path of reading that I’ve nev- ADF has granted more than $44 million in funding er stopped,” Sears says, citing the thousands of books for 2,900 cases. It’s been involved in 47 victories at ADF now holds in the library of its Scottsdale, Ariz., the U.S. Supreme Court so far—either arguing in or headquarters. “He really gave me the beginnings of an funding them—and had four cases pending before the intellectual framework for the values and beliefs my Court at press time. parents had instilled in me—beliefs consistent with But Alan Sears can tell you that when ADF started faith and support of our country.” up in 1994, it was small. Very small. Those beliefs came under heavy fire at the Louis D. “Today, the Lord’s blessed us to have offices in sev- Brandeis School of Law, which Sears entered in 1974— TO THE NATIONS: Alan Sears discusses a case with Alliance eral cities in the United States and in seven nations,” the year after the Supreme Court handed down its Defending Freedom attorney says Sears, ADF’s president, CEO and general counsel. landmark abortion decision, Roe v. Wade. Elyssa Koren and another “But it started with me and a month-to-month lease on “I was amazed by the impact Roe had on my educa- woman before heading to the an office that measured about 12 by 12, a laptop com - tion,” Sears says. United Nations building in puter and a printer bought on my credit card.” New York City. ADF has offices And when evangelical leaders first approached Sears in seven countries. with an idea—to start a unique group that would not only stand up to the American Civil Liberties Union, THE ONLY CHOICE fledged account of the harms of pornography made it but grow to rival it in size and impact—he candidly said I was amazed In early 1985, Sears was a federal prosecutor—chief into the Commission’s final report. There were some he didn’t expect much to come of it. - members who were not interested in a complete look. of the Criminal Section for the Western District of Ken “I remember my reaction very, very well,” he tells “ tucky, in fact. He dealt with a range of cases, from nar- Alan was. Only by dint of his efforts was that report as Citizen. “I wasn’t very excited at all, because I’d seen by the impact cotics to public corruption to white-collar fraud. But it successful as it was.” so many ideas like that which hadn’t gone anywhere. was his prosecution of obscenity and child pornogra- So in late 1993, when the organizers of what would There’d been many attempts—by some really great peo- Roe v.Wade phy that drew the attention of his superiors in Wash- become ADF were looking for a leader, they were pretty ple—but in the end, the resources just weren’t there.” had ington, D.C.: They tapped him to head the new Attor- sure they had the man for the job. Obviously, those leaders changed his mind. But ney General’s Commission on Pornography, whose “Alan not only had the legal background, he had we’re getting ahead of our story. on my education. members included Focus on the Family Founder Dr. wide respect across denominations for his work on the . pornography issue,” Minnery says. “He was a natural FINDING HIS PATH ” In that role, Sears found himself working under choice, and the only choice—the only person we con- If we told you that Alan Sears’ career started with Attorney General —a man who made a sidered for the role.” Goldwater and Chase, you might assume we were strong impression on Sears, and taught him lessons As noted before, Sears—by then having served as an talking about a law firm. In his case, though, we’re- go “I’d be in classes that had nothing to do with that that have stayed with him to this day. attorney in private practice at Arizona’s largest law firm, ing back much further. ruling, and teachers would bring it up to hail the great “Ed had qualities which really impacted me as a Snell & Wilmer—wasn’t so sure. But the stature of the “As a child, I was always interested in the news, in direction American law was going. I knew instinctive- young lawyer in my 30s,” Sears says. “He had absolute evangelical leaders behind this project was encourag- what was going on in public life,” Sears says. “In 1964, ly that it wasn’t consistent with the Constitution. But integrity. This guy was more unjustly maligned than ing: Dobson, of Campus Crusade for Christ, as an eighth grader, I did door-to-door work for Bar- I didn’t know how to deal with it, how to debate it. I anyone, and he never took it personally. He under- D. James Kennedy of Coral Ridge Ministries, Marlin ry Goldwater’s presidential campaign, where someone didn’t really know where to go to find out.” stood that this is part of life when you decide to engage Maddoux of the USA Radio Network and gave me a pair of black, horn-rimmed glasses like Gold- That experience spurred Sears’ interest in constitu- in the battle, and never spoke ill of those who were at- of Crown Financial Ministries, to name a few. So was water wore. I still have those glasses.” tional originalism—his desire to learn what the Found- tacking him.” their commitment to use their resources to publicize the In high school, Sears found a valuable philosophi- ers meant in their own words, not the meaning pre- Meanwhile, Sears was making a strong impression group’s work: It would not lapse into obscurity. cal mentor—and as it happened, he wore black, horn- ferred by modern, progressive judges. It also spurred himself. Most important, however, was an even more basic rimmed glasses too. his urge to get involved in public policy, rather than “Alan was extraordinarily hard working,” says Tom commitment. “I had a fantastic government teacher for a couple of abandoning that realm to the Left. Minnery, who was Focus on the Family’s vice president “I asked them, ‘Are we here to win—not just to put a classes named Harold Chase,” Sears says. “He’d been a Which led him to the Reagan administration. for public policy at the time. “He made sure that a full- finger in the dike, but to win?’ ” Sears recalls. “And Bill

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Bright said, ‘Alan, I want you to keep the door open for “I looked at him,” Sears recalls, “and I said, ‘With the Gospel.’ respect, are you kidding? I’m just trying to find a -dol “That’s when I began to get excited.” lar to keep this place open. I haven’t had time to think about it.’ And he said, gently, ‘You know, if you don’t ‘ARE YOU KIDDING?’ ON WATCH: The First have time to find a theme verse, you might have a lot of Amendment was written to Although ADF—originally known as the Alliance spare time to do other things soon.’ ” protect the church from the Defense Fund—was intended to subsidize religious- Later, London suggested John 15:5: “I am the vine, influence of the state, not liberty legal work through strategy, training, funding you are the branches. Without Me, you can do noth- the other way around. That’s and advocacy, it wasn’t exactly flush with funding at first. ing.” The words resonated with Sears—and everyone something Sears and the “We had very little money when we launched,” Sears else involved. Alliance Defending Freedom says. “We struggled for every dime we had. It took a “I presented it to the board of directors and it was frequently remind people of before cases head to court. long time before that changed.” unanimous,” he says. “There wasn’t even much discus- Sears had to hit the road to raise money. And he sion: It was so clear that what we were taking on was was feeling the stress—especially the day he visited so impossible to do in our own strength. We wanted to Focus on the Family and H.B. London, then Focus’ vice acknowledge that it’s all Him. Without Him, we can do president of church and clergy outreach, asked him nothing. Anything we’ve accomplished is by His grace.” what theme verse he’d selected for the fledgling group. Brad Keirnes—a current and original ADF board

Joe Kennedy From the Courtroom to the Silver Screen member—says the verse fits the man at the helm of do their first (religious-liberty) cases, they’re there for organization. life,” Sears says. “It encourages them so much to help “That’s an expression of Alan’s character and his others.” he movie God’s Not Dead—the story of a Chris- are threatening our religious freedoms. We wanted to spirituality,” Keirnes says. “He lives in ongoing depen- And helping others is the core of the mission for tian college student dealing with an aggressively bring those to light.” dency on our heavenly Father, and he inspires others to Sears. T atheistic professor—surprised entertainment- White, who also stars as Rev. Dave in both films, do so as well. It’s contagious. “This work is all about the relationships and the industry observers in 2014, earning more than $60 thinks those events will help this movie strike a chord “He’s very genuine. At the core of his being, he’s a people,” he says. “It’s seeing individuals protected, million at the box office. That’s not bad, especially for a with audiences. humble man of God—incredibly talented, but really their rights restored—in some cases, you’d even say film that cost only $2 million to make. “After God’s Not Dead, we heard blind to his giftedness. That’s helped make him the their lives restored. On April 2, God’s Not Dead 2 will hit from so many people saying that sort leader he is.” “We don’t pick and choose and just take the cases theaters. And this one takes the story of discrimination is what’s happening So does the model of calm, faithful reasoning that that are likely to get a favorable outcome. We’ve been into the courtroom. at their universities,” he tells Citizen. Sears brings to often-heated controversies. blessed to win close to 80 percent of them. But the ones The main plot involves a teacher “They felt it was literally their story. “Alan is a logic warrior,” says Focus on the Fami- we lose and the people we’re unable to help—those (Melissa Joan Hart) who answers a And I think we’ll see a lot of that reac- ly President Jim Daly. “He doesn’t fight with emotion; bother me far more than the gratification I get out of student’s question about Jesus in the tion again after this one.” he fights with reason. He deeply believes that- bibli the victories.” classroom, not by witnessing, but sim- White hopes this story of a Chris- cal truth comes out through rational discussion. I’ve That’s the mark of a man who, after more than two ply by presenting established histori- tian teacher who defends her rights always appreciated that about Alan.” decades at ADF, still has his heart in his work. And on cal facts. It’s not long before she finds at great personal cost will encourage the days when the work goes badly, as much or more herself facing dismissal and fighting viewers to show similar fortitude in A HEART FOR THE JOB than on the days when it goes well, Sears reminds him- for her rights—as well as her liveli- their own lives—and to support oth- Long story short, ADF grew. To the point where self of the words Bill Bright spoke to him right at the hood—in court. ers who already are fighting for their it not only takes on vast numbers of legal cases every start. The movie is inspired by real-life freedoms. year, but also has trained 1,800 attorneys and 1,600 “What are we trying to achieve at the end of the cases of the sort the Alliance Defending “So often it’s not until you’re hit law students—building the ranks of qualified defenders day?” he asks rhetorically. “To keep the door open for Freedom often faces. In fact, ADF was a over the head that you have to decide of both the Constitution in general and religious liberty the Gospel—to protect religious liberty and the rights resource for the filmmakers—as it was with the origi- whether you’re going to stand or just cave in,” he says. in particular, and linking them into networks of other of conscience. That’s our mission, and it’s not going to nal movie. The film’s end credits list 43 religious-liberty “It’s the people who are most like Melissa Joan Hart’s attorneys and public-policy advocates who care deeply change.” cases, many in which ADF played a role. character who make a difference—who stand and say, about those issues. “We didn’t want to do a sequel just to do a sequel,” ‘This isn’t right,’ and call out discrimination against our It’s the sort of thing Sears wishes he’d had when he explains David A.R. White, one of the film’s producers. religious freedoms. That’s ultimately what will save was in law school. And it’s an effort he expects to mul- FOR MORE INFORMATION: “There are so many current events happening that our nation.” tiply in impact for many years to come. To learn more about the Alliance Defending Freedom “Our experience is when you get a man or woman to and how you can get involved, visit adflegal.org.

14 CITIZEN APRIL 2016 Pure Flix Joy Ludwig. Shot on location at Camelback Bible Church, Paradise Valley, Ariz. APRIL 2016 CITIZEN 15 THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF he most passionate and intellectual- role is only to make good laws within the limited, clearly ly irrepressible voice on the Supreme defined boundaries of the Constitution. Scalia was eager Court for religious liberty, the sanc- and willing to strike down laws that were discordant with tity of human life, and marriage and unwavering constitutional standards. family for the last three decades is His impact has been so widely and deeply felt that no now silent. one in law school today, regardless of their political lean- JUSTICE ANTONIN Justice Antonin Gregory Scalia, 79, ings, believes congressional mandates can be taken at died on Feb. 13, a loss of almost incal- face value if they violate state or local prerogatives. Even culable proportions. He embodied avowed “living constitutionalists” know they ignore origi- limitless wisdom and virtue in nearly nalism at their peril. 30 years at the high court. Scalia’s profound renewal of the proper constitutional TOne of the most influential conservatives of the last balance between federal and state power stems from his SCALIA century, Scalia saw the Constitu- morally courageous leadership. tion as the embodiment of eternal It was a Herculean achievement precepts and was therefore right- in American jurisprudence and fully wary of how bad law and probably his greatest legacy. poor constitutional reasoning THE SUDDEN DEATH OF could lead to the irretrievable loss THE SITTING JUSTICE BULWARK OF FREEDOM of liberty. Scalia often used humor to From the moment Reagan LEAVES A VACANCY ON THE say serious things in a funny way. nominated him to the high bench But in his questioning of lawyers in 1986, where he won unani- U.S. SUPREME COURT. during oral arguments and in mous approval in the U.S. Sen- BUT MORE THAN THAT, IT his masterful legal opinions, he ate, Scalia was a force to be reck- would assert there should be one oned with and an exemplar for a LEAVES A HOLE IN OUR unchangeable benchmark for kind of jurisprudence considered deciding cases: Does the -Consti somewhat quirky at the time—but COLLECTIVE MORAL FABRIC. tution allow it or not? which has come to be widely ac- BY TIM GOEGLEIN This often made him highly cepted as the most constitution- unpopular on major issues when ally orthodox manner of judging he was in the minority. But he cases in America. refused to substitute emotion Called “orginalism,” Scalia believed the words of the for thought. He had an innate distaste for conventional United States Constitution’s text actually mean what they wisdom and nostalgia. He became famous for the ele- said when they were drafted and adopted by the Founding gance, clarity, biting wit and precision of his many fiery Fathers at the Constitutional Convention in 1787. The doc- and well-reasoned dissents in some of the most import- ument’s fixed meaning was the lodestar for Scalia’s judg- ant cases considered during his lifetime. His willingness ments. to go it alone also made him a bulwark for freedom, even The idea of a “living Constitution”—a legal document as some of his fellow justices were willing to impose their whose meaning and definitions change—amounts to leg- personal views on the rest of the country. islating from the bench by mysteriously discovering rights In 1989, Scalia bluntly wrote that Sandra Day O’Con- that can’t be found in the Constitution, ultimately shaping nor’s “whatever-it-takes-pro-abortion jurisprudence” sim- law by fads. ply could not “be taken seriously.” Matters on which the Referencing a fellow justice’s opinion, he once quipped: Constitution doesn’t force the high court to rule, Scalia “What is a moderate interpretation of the text? Halfway believed, are for the states to decide, not nine unelected between what it really means and what you’d like it to lawyers. mean?” In dissenting on the decision to legalize sodomy in Instead, Scalia championed consistency in the law, in- 2003 (Lawrence v. Texas), Scalia scorned the impact cul- fused with unmistakable depth and clarity, that was in line tural trends too often have on the law. “Today’s opinion with James Madison and the other principle architects of is the product of a court, which is the product of a law- the Constitution. profession culture, that has largely signed on to the He was particularly dubious of using “legislative his- so-called homosexual agenda,” he wrote, “by which I tory” in deciding cases, arguing repeatedly that Congress’ mean the agenda promoted by some homosexual activists

AP/Wide World Photos APRIL 2016 CITIZEN 17 JUSTICE ANTONIN SCALIA directed at eliminating the moral opprobrium that has be religious neutrality in the public square. Earlier this traditionally attached to homosexual conduct.” year, he said ours is a religious republic and that faith is a Scalia predicted that case eventually would be used to central part of our national life and constitutional under- WHAT HAPPENS NOW? redefine marriage. In 2015, his prediction came to pass— standing. He said God had been generous to the United and Scalia wrote another passionate dissent. “To allow States because Americans have always honored Him. the policy question of same-sex marriage to be considered “Unlike the other countries of the world that do not he death of Justice Antonin Scalia was a shock not over to its next term and order a re-argument after a new and resolved by a select, patrician, highly unrepresenta- even invoke His name, we do Him honor,” Scalia noted. only to the American people, but to the American justice is appointed. tive panel of nine is to violate a principle even more funda- “There is nothing wrong with that and do not let anybody system of justice. At the time of his death on Feb. The process for selecting a new justice to fill Scalia’s mental than no taxation without representation: no social tell you that there is anything wrong with that.” 13, Scalia was heavily engaged in the cases being position is set forth in the U.S. Constitution, Article II, transformation without representation,” he wrote. “The T briefed and argued this term, including block- Section 2, clause 2: “[The President] shall nominate, and strikingly unrepresentative character of the body voting AN HONORABLE MAN busters dealing with abortion and religious free- by and with advice and consent of the Senate, shall appoint on today’s social upheaval would be irrelevant if they I got to know Scalia over the last 20 years in my var- dom. What happens to those? How will a new justice be se- . . . Judges of the Supreme Court… .” The president sends were functioning as judges, answering the legal question ious roles at the U.S. Senate, the White House and now lected? How will the selection process impact election-year the name of the person he nominates for the Court to the whether the American people had ever ratified a consti- Focus on the Family. I visited with him in his chambers in politics? What will a new justice mean Senate, which will refer the matter to 2014, and he shared a story I shall never forget, told in his for the future of the Court’s handling of the Senate Judiciary committee to hold charming, gregarious style. cases involving the family, marriage, One of the U.S. hearings and to make a recommenda- He attended Georgetown University as an undergrad- abortion and religious freedom? Supreme Court’s tion to the full Senate, which will then uate, majoring in history. At the end of his senior year, he Let’s break it down. debate and vote on the nominee. If the had to appear before a small committee of the department With its usual complement of nine most reliable nominee receives 51 or more votes, he to orally defend his thesis. members, the Supreme Court typical- conservative voices is “confirmed,” and the president then The session went marvelously until the final ques- ly doesn’t end up with tie votes in its has passed away. “appoints” him to the Supreme Court. tion, when the chairman asked, “Mr. Scalia, what is the decisions. Even if by a slim 5-4 ma- If he isn’t confirmed, the process starts most important event of world history?” Scalia said he jority, cases get decided. With eight What happens for over with a new presidential nominee. didn’t remember the answer he gave—but afterward, the members, the possibility of a tie exists. the rest of this The process to replace Scalia will chairman looked at him solemnly and said, “Mr. Scalia, What happens then? term, and what does be fraught with political and constitu- Georgetown has failed you if we didn’t teach you that the The Court actually is used to ad- tional significance, because the -frag most important event of world history is the Incarnation dressing cases with only eight mem- it mean for this ile ideological balance that included of Jesus Christ.” Scalia told me he never forgot the answer bers, as when a justice has a prolonged year’s presidential him—four conservatives, four liberals, to that timeless question. illness or must recuse himself for a con- election? and Justice Anthony Kennedy as the Scalia will eventually be succeeded, but he can never be flict of interest. In the case of a tie vote, swing voter who takes different sides replaced. He was a colossus. the Court can order a re-argument BY BRUCE HAUSKNECHT given the nature of the case—would be He was the most important and influential constitu- of the case when all nine justices are altered, perhaps permanently. Pres- tionalist and jurist of his era. His vibrant legal reasoning seated. If the Court lets the tie stand, it ident Obama’s other Supreme Court tutional provision that was understood to proscribe the and inimitable writing style were defined by their regal affirms the decision from the lower federal appellate court. appointees—Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan—are traditional definition of marriage.” grace and stature. God gave him a beautiful mind and However, the case doesn’t set a national precedent; it binds decidedly liberal, as any forthcoming nominees would Scalia repeatedly reminded his colleagues that central- probing intellect. His categorical and clear-eyed defenses only the active parties and becomes precedent only in likely be. izing power in Washington will essentially create a con- of marriage, life and conscience in the public square were states comprising the federal circuit where it was decided. The Senate, however, is currently controlled by Repub- stitution—creating something more more like a national matchless. A tie vote could factor heavily in at least two important licans who hold an edge of 54 seats to 46, and they don’t regulatory state and less like the constitutional republic Scalia lived those principles in a long and happy mar- cases before the court this year: an abortion regulation feel disposed to simply acquiesce to another liberal ideo- which the Framers intended. riage to Maureen, the love of his life; with their nine chil- case from Texas (Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstadt); logue on the Court—especially one that would alter its Few things bothered Scalia more than his detractors dren and 28 grandchildren, whom he adored; and through and the Little Sisters of the Poor, involving the federal balance. Republicans have reminded Democrats that the suggesting his Christian faith was the main reason he his impact on legions of law clerks whom he credentialed mandate that religious non-profit organizations provide Senate has an election-year tradition of leaving big ap- came to some of his important legal decisions on social to help extend the constitutional legal renaissance he possible abortifacients in company health plans (Zubik v. pointments to the incoming president. In 2007, Democrats issues. started. We shall not see his like anytime soon. Burwell). In the Texas case, a tie would affirm the low- invoked that tradition against President George W. Bush, This was best illustrated in 2007, when a former col- How fitting that he died just two days before- Presi er court opinion, which upheld the law. But a tie vote in with Sen. Chuck Schumer calling for the Senate to block league at the University of Chicago asserted that Scalia up- dent’s Day, commemorating George Washington. It was Zubik would cause serious problems, because that case is any Supreme Court nominations made during his last year held the federal ban on partial-birth abortion because he somehow right that the federal government closed on the comprised of several decisions which came from different in office; however, there were no vacancies to fill that year. was Catholic, suggesting that he was incapable of constitu- first business day after Scalia’s death, as if we were mourn- federal circuits, with varying outcomes. If those decisions Scalia’s replacement will become an important election- tional reasoning apart from his faith. Scalia told a reporter ing and honoring the passing of a great man. are affirmed by a tie, the country would end up with some year issue. Judges have perennially been a conserva- the comment was untrue and unfair, and vowed never to He and Washington were peers of character, leader- states where religious non-profits have less religious free - tive rather than liberal voter priority, so it could drive appear at that university until the professor had left. ship and a noble generosity of spirit that wreathed their dom than other states. If a tie occurs, it may cause the huge numbers of conservative voters to the polls in Yet he utterly dismissed the concept that there should consequential lives. Requiescat in pace. remaining eight members of the Court to carry the case November.

18 CITIZEN APRIL 2016 AP/Wide World Photos APRIL 2016 CITIZEN 19 This month, the Barna Group is releasing a major study on pornography. What researchers found—in the culture at large and in the church—may shock you. President David Kinnaman sat down with Citizen recently to talk about it.

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Prixel Creative/Lightstock.com 20 CITIZEN APRIL 2016 APRIL 2016 CITIZEN 21 Citizen: You did this study at the commissioning of pornography by providing a counter-narrative to porn. Josh McDowell Ministries. Can you tell us a little bit We know parents often are reluctant to discuss sexual more about the purposes behind it? topics with their children, so today’s teens are often David Kinnaman: Josh McDowell has spent the vast left to their own devices to navigate the complex task majority of his life attempting to help pastors, youth of developing beliefs about sexuality. Without that workers, educators and parents pass on their faith counterpoint, even porn stars like Nina Hartley warn and values to the next generation. But he believes the us that teens are going to find information wherever increasing access to Internet pornography is negatively they can get it. Parents must acknowledge and engage affecting young people’s receptivity to these biblical with the reality of pornography if they are to give their values by distorting their views of morality and the children the critical tools they need to thrive in the Christian faith. Convinced that a major study among Screen Age, what we often call Digital Babylon. pastors, youth pastors and churched youth and adults was necessary in order to understand the contours of C: The overall social attitude toward pornography the crisis and to awaken the Church to the urgency of usage seems to be that it’s more widely accepted than these trends, Josh McDowell Ministries commissioned in the past—with those over 50 saying it’s usually bad, Barna to take on the challenge. The goal was to assess older adults and teens a bit undecided over whether it’s the extent to which pornography has permeated bad or neutral, and young adults most likely to say it’s Christian families, the Church and our society at large, good. What can we predict for the future based on that and to examine its impact. finding? DK: As you’ve noted, social attitudes have shifted C: Researching pornography usage, especially in the dramatically in just one or two generations, and this church, is historically difficult—but you seemed to find Joe Kennedy is certainly cause for concern. Unfortunately, porn people very forthcoming about it. How is this survey is accessible virtually everywhere, and this reality is different from research you or others have done in the unlikely to change anytime soon. As long as pornography past? continues to enjoy moral ambiguity, widespread DK: You’re exactly right. It is notoriously difficult 56 percent who say not recycling is “usually or always adults, 19 percent of males and 44 percent of females acceptance and significant demand, its presence and to conduct research on porn for a number of reasons, wrong”). Usage among women also challenged some say they never seek it out. influence will keep expanding in our culture. one of the more challenging ones being—as you of our common assumptions about the gendered use But there is hope. For instance, scholar Mary said—a certain reluctance among participants to be of porn (56 percent of women 25 and under seek out C: You note at the outset that “teens are sensitive Eberstadt says porn is the new tobacco. Fifty years ago, forthcoming about pornography use. There is a very real porn). And the age at which young people encounter to and affected by porn, especially compared to young cigarette smoking was considered morally neutral, but stigma attached to porn use, particularly in the church, porn was much earlier than we imagined, with 27 adults.” Tell us a little more about that. How do the today, as a general rule, it is considered disgusting and where so many caught in its grips are burdened with percent of young adults ages 25-30 first viewing two groups differ, and how can this information help wrong. Porn, on the other hand, used to be considered shame and an incredible fear of being discovered. So pornography before puberty. parents of teenage children? disgusting and wrong, and now is considered morally to overcome this, we decided to conduct online surveys We were also surprised at the level of normalization DK: Teens are in very formative years, and they are neutral. But we do believe the cultural tide will that provided the anonymity and confidentiality porn has achieved so quickly. We are increasingly more sensitive to, and affected by porn in more dramatic eventually shift, and the dangers and consequences of needed to remove barriers to more honest and candid tolerant of violent and demeaning pornography, and ways than other age groups. This sensitivity among pornography will re-stigmatize both its consumption responses, which would not be possible in a phone poll. this is a sobering finding. For example, only 54 percent teens and young adults is seen in how they consider and production. But much of this depends on the Also, at the beginning of each survey, participants of people think sexual acts that may be forced or painful more things to be pornographic than older adults. For church’s response to the issue. were warned of the sensitive nature of the questions are always wrong. instance, 47 percent of teens and young adults believe a and asked to confirm their interest in continuing. And fully nude show or dance is porn, compared with only 32 C: You report that very few of the pornography users again at the beginning of the section about pornography C: The study surveyed responses from 2,770 percent of adults. The Economist ran a piece about this in the study report feeling much guilt about it, with the use, respondents were asked if they wished to continue people—teens, young adults, adults, pastors and youth last year. Because of the ease of access to pornography exception of teens, practicing Christians and political due to the sensitive nature of the topic. Only 3 percent pastors. Did all the people in the study self-report being today, many teens are likely to encounter a significant conservatives. What’s the takeaway lesson there? of respondents dropped out of the survey at this point. pornography users, or did they run the gamut? amount of pornography before they become sexually DK: And pastors. They feel guilt. But you’re right, DK: Defining pornography “use” was a difficult task, active—and before their brains finish developing, so most people don’t feel much sense of guilt when they C: Did any of your findings shock or surprise you? because asking whether people “view” porn is a vague the neurological effects on teenagers are cause for deep use porn. There are some educators who point out the DK: Yes, and no. The hunch we had was that the and insufficient measure, particularly when people concern. Also, some sexual tastes are formed around very real tension that exists for teens. They receive a problem was pervasive—and we weren’t wrong—but come across it unintentionally or receive unsolicited the time of puberty, so ill-timed exposure to sexually great deal of mixed messages from, on the one hand, the sheer extent of the problem surprised us. A few key porn. So we created a way to triangulate data related to explicit material could cause irreversible effects on popular culture that encourages and even rewards the findings certainly stand out. For instance, the cavalier seeing porn and a person’s intention to view porn. But expectations and beliefs about sex. pornographic impulse and glorifies the illicit, and on attitude toward pornography among the younger when it came to specifically seeking it out, 35 percent This is why it’s important for parents to intervene the other, and particularly among church-going teens, generations was deeply disturbing (32 percent say of male adults, and 73 percent of female adults say they early, and use those sensitive and impressionable years a conservative social context in which their superiors viewing porn is “usually or always wrong” compared to never seek it out. When it came to teens and young to challenge the story being told about sex through expect moral and ethical purity—particularly when it

22 CITIZEN APRIL 2016 AP/Wide World Photos APRIL 2016 CITIZEN 23 comes to things like abstinence-only education. So this which is an amateur, hardcore style of pornography in use, and that it is exclusively a male problem. But we’re socialized into a more sexualized and pornified world guilt is very likely a result of the ways in which teens are which violence and degradation are commonplace. now seeing that women are speaking up more than they where porn was more accepted, particularly among their being pulled in opposing directions and the complex Robert Jensen, a popular critic of porn, articulates used to about their pornA use. STUDIEDpeers. That’s also a hypothesis, since we didn’t examine array of expectations set before them. our problem very well. He says it is a “moral paradox” this specifically, but it makes sense. For practicing Christians (29 percent experience guilt, that you have a civilized society in which porn moves C: You found that 57 percent of pastors and 64 compared to 12 percent of non-practicing Christians) closer to the mainstream at the same time that it percent of youth pastors admit to struggling with C: What are we to make of the fact that most of and political conservatives (25 percent experience guilt, becomes more overtly cruel, degrading and racist. This pornography usage at some point—and 14 percent and the people who go to pastors for help with their porn compared to 13 percent of liberals), much of the guilt broader question of why we’ve become more tolerant 21 percent,CONTROVERSY respectively, were using it at the time of addictions are married men? likely flows from a very real behavior/belief and accepting of the kinds of explicit content the survey. That’s a lot of porn usage among spiritual DK: As you noted, 59 percent of pastors report that dissonance. Both groups tend to be we consume is an infinitely complex leaders. married men seek their help for porn use, compared critical of pornography, and when question to answer, but the level DK: Yes, it is, unfortunately. This just goes to show to only 36 percent who report that single men seek their own pornography use feels of anonymity that Internet the extent to which the porn industry has pried its way their help. It’s important to note that this does not disharmonious with their pornography provides its into our lives. Few are immune to its ubiquity and necessarily mean married men are using porn more fierce rhetoric and devoted We were users makes it easier to live allure, including pastors—who are human like the rest than single men. It simply means they are seeking campaign against porn, the a seemingly normal life of us. But as we wage a war against porn, we also have help from pastors more than other groups. This is very guilt can be crippling. Add shocked at while exploring a darker to create communities of grace for those struggling with likely a result of married men feeling a greater sense the element of shame and side of sexual desire. it. This means dispensing discipline for porn use that of responsibility to solve their porn issue, particularly condemnation leveled the sheer It’s also important is proportionate and consistent with that of other sins. when there is a spouse, or even children in the picture. against those practicing to note that depictions It means abandoning the shaming and condemnation But again, we must acknowledge the pervasiveness Christians in the church normalization of teens under the reserved for those who struggle with porn. Sexual sin of the problem, and recognize that as long as porn struggling with sexual age of 18 having sex does not disqualify any pastor, lay leader, friend, sin, and you have a and widespread would, under law, be husband, wife, brother or sister from the grace and Joe Kennedy recipe for extraordinary considered child porn. forgiveness of God. Shame does little but drive sin guilt. But it’s important acceptance of into hiding, where it festers and grows in isolation Young adults seek out porn more to note that although these C: What are we to from community and accountability. The Lord calls than any other nenerational group. groups reported the highest pornography. make of the fact that more us to walk in the light, to confess our sins to fellow levels of guilt, the numbers females and women are now believers—but to do that we must create communities still represent a minority. seeking out porn than in the absent of shame and judgment, where our brothers past? Especially younger women and sisters can confess and repent of their sin and be C: The two things I found most and teens? met with love, acceptance and help. surprising were that teens and young adults DK: We did find that more than half of find “not recycling” to be more immoral than viewing women 25 and under seek out porn (56 percent versus C: You found that youth pastors are twice as likely pornography, and that only child pornography and 27 percent among women over 25) and one-third seek it as senior pastors who struggle with porn to report depictions of rape are considered “always wrong” by out at least monthly (33 percent versus just 12 percent, that it’s negatively affected their ministry. Might this 37% 57% 43% 41% 17% most Americans. How have we arrived at this place of respectively). But, it’s important to note that we don’t be due to the fact that most porn depicts very young Teens Young Older Gen- Boomers Xers general acceptance of depictions of teens having sex, actually make the claim that women are seeking it out and teenage women—the same age as those the youth Adults Millennials demeaning situations, homosexual and group sex, more so than in the past. There is certainly an increase pastor spends most of his time with? which are less likely to be considered “always wrong”? in the use of porn across the board with the adoption DK: Yes, we found that 44 percent of youth pastors DK: We also were shocked at the sheer normalization of mobile technology and the proliferation of Internet claimed it was “very true,” compared with 18 percent and widespread acceptance of pornography. As you pornography, but it’s hard to say that women are, as a of senior pastors, that their own porn use negatively exists, people will struggle to resist it—be they married, mentioned, teens and young adults rank not recycling proportion of the population, seeking out more porn. affected their ministry. But when we add the “somewhat single, male or female. Being involved in a Christian (56 percent) as more immoral than viewing porn (32 We don’t yet have that comparison data. What’s more true” answer, which is 31 percent for youth pastors and community where it’s safe to be struggling is essential. percent). We also found that only 79 percent of people likely is that these findings actually serve to challenge 46 percent for senior pastors, the numbers even out a Churches and communities of faith must help those believe sexual acts that may be forced or painful are commonplace assumptions about the gendered use of little, with a total of 75 percent for youth pastors, and achieve success in this struggle by providing strong wrong. It comes as no surprise then, that this coincides porn. 64 percent for senior pastors. leadership, and opportunities for accountability where with a high level of desensitization that feeds the In The Porn Phenomenon, we talk with Audrey When it comes to whether this has something to do friends wrestle and pray over this together. desire to seek out more hardcore or fetishistic porn. Assad about porn use among women. She believes that with how porn depicts very young and teenage women— One of the arguments of my new book Good Faith American popular culture has also become increasingly because of gender stereotypes that cast women as pure the same age as those the youth pastor spends most of his is this: Biblical, grace-filled Christian community is the sexualized and pornified, where nude images and and modest, particularly in the church, women do not time with—that’s really hard to say without conducting one place in which refugees of the sexual revolution can sexual situations are encountered on a daily basis. feel free to confess or speak publicly about lust, sexual a more in-depth analysis. Youth pastors are usually be restored. This includes every kind of expression of This has led pornographers to up the ante and produce addictions, pornography or masturbation. This in turn younger than senior pastors, so they’ve come of age in sexual brokenness, including porn. And the implication more extreme content. In her book, Pornland, Gail perpetuates silence and reinforces the erroneous idea a very different world than that of their predecessors. is that we need to foster communities of grace and truth Dines introduces us to an entire genre called “gonzo” that women do not struggle with things like pornography It’s likely that they encountered porn earlier, and were where this vision can be realized.

24 CITIZEN APRIL 2016 APRIL 2016 CITIZEN 25 C: You found that despite the fact that everyone C: Utah legislators are currently considering a bill to seems to agree pornography usage and addiction is a limit people’s access to online porn, saying it’s created a bigger problem in the church now than it was 20 years state of emergency due to its effect on children, marital ago—and society says it’s less taboo than it used to be— satisfaction and infidelity rates statewide. What are 93 percent of pastors report having no programs in the your thoughts on this as a deterrent? church to help those who struggle. Why do you think DK: Censorship is important, particularly when it that is? comes to protecting children and young people from DK: It’s hard to say, but many certainly feel ill porn, but it must always be in conjunction with a equipped to deal with the ubiquity of porn and its use. healthy and open discourse about porn and sex. Utah is There is also a certain reluctance to deal with issues an interesting example because at least one study found like sex and pornography, and this is true for parents, that it has the highest reported porn use per capita in educators and pastors alike. America. This was surprising And when you look at the given the high Mormon statistics, it’s hard to feel population. But this is an like we are making many example of what happens inroads. Just as we failed Teens and young adults think when conservative religious to reorient the moral shifts not recycling is worse rhetoric emphasizes the of the sexual revolution, than viewing porn. dangers of sexual behavior the Christian community and promotes chastity has thus far been unable without a counter-narrative to slow the swift change of for healthy sexuality, which moral sensibility regarding leads to shame, confusion, pornography. So that can be mystery, guilt, and as in very discouraging. But this the case of adolescents, Gosnell is part of the impetus for unrealistic expectations this study. The hope is that 56% 32% about sex and sexuality. And The Porn Phenomenon will Not Recycling Viewing Porn as we’re seeing, does little to illuminate the need to create curb the use of porn. In the award-winning documentary better ways of talking about Sex is a God-created 3801 Lancaster: American Tragedy, the problem. The church is aspect of human life—it’s beginning to take positive not a dirty word. Rather filmmakers take viewers behind the steps. Individuals and groups than treating it as such, we are creating resources that offer help and healing. For must celebrate and promote God’s good intentions for scenes at the infamous Philadelphia example, a group called Covenant Eyes (covenanteyes. sex. As Jordan Monge said in Christianity Today, “It’s com) promotes Internet accountability and filtering human nature to want to be wanted. It’s normal for abortion facility where live babies services for individuals, families and churches. that desire to manifest in a desire for sex. The problem is that there is no good moral outlet for these natural were murdered and women died. C: If you were to re-do this survey in, say, five years, desires before marriage, and our sex-laden society has what changes would you hope to find? done a wonderful job of causing most folks, men and And they score prison interviews with DK: Well, we would certainly hope to see the major women, to stir up and awaken love before it pleases.” indicators drop significantly, like the number of people Censorship can be a Band-Aid, especially if not coupled the man himself — Kermit Gosnell. seeking out porn, the percentage of people coming with good sex education that describes God’s intention across it, the proportion of people believing it’s good for sex. Otherwise, we allow healthy sexual desire to for society, etc. We’d also really like to see pastors feel become distorted in the dark recesses of isolation and better equipped to deal with the issue, and lower rates mystery. of personal porn use among those who have been tasked to lead us. We’d also like to find more people feeling they have someone to talk to about their porn use. And FOR MORE INFORMATION: Christian communities have to be more functional To learn more about The Barna Group, visit barna.org. Speaks hospitals for those “refugees of the sexual age.” Again, Focus on the Family has a new resource on digital much of this depends on the church’s broader response pornography addiction, available at http://bit.ly/ 3801 Lancaster: American Tragedy American 3801 Lancaster: to the study, but we’re very hopeful. digital-pornography-addiction.

BY KARLA DIAL Courtesy of Courtesy 26 CITIZEN APRIL 2016 DEVASTATED: Davida Clarke avid Altrogge was in his favorite got a letter from him saying, ‘I’m willing to talk breaks into tears Pittsburgh coffee shop one day “The media had painted to you guys.’ So we had to put the brakes on it as she tells in early 2011, absently scanning to see what he had to say.” filmmakers what a newspaper someone else had him as this B movie Altrogge and his team—Hartnett and it was like to be left behind, when he saw it: A producer Jen Brown, both 30—spent a year one of Gosnell’s little blurb in a column about monster. I was surprised building a transparent relationship with patients. the horrific things narcotics Gosnell, “being very honest about what the investigators had found in a by how intelligent he was, project was.” Between February and August Philadelphia abortion facility run 2015, they recorded 20 interviews with him— by Dr. Kermit Gosnell. how charming he was, done in 15-minute increments due to the Blood-spattered instruments prison phone call protocol. D and blankets. Urine-stained how long and hard “It was a very different interview process walls. A feral cat wandering the for us,” Altrogge recalls. “We usually talk to hallways. Animal feces. And jar he’d thought about someone for a few hours, but this gave us the after jar containing tiny, severed human feet. unique opportunity to really digest what was “I was just like everybody else,” he tells Citizen, what he did. “ discussed in the interview, think about it, and “just horrified and asking how this was happening in then craft some more questions.” With that in mind, the movie asks some important Pennsylvania.” questions that are up to viewers to answer for A few days later, Altrogge’s horror turned to A RATIONAL MAN themselves. journalistic intrigue: A friend in Harrisburg told him we were in tears,” recalls Altrogge, now 31. “We “It was pretty remarkable and mind-blowing for us “It’s been exciting to see people who’ve said, ‘What press was being allowed into a state Senate hearing walked away thinking the fact that this happened in to hear him talk about why he did what he did,” Brown can I do about this?’ ” Brown tells Citizen. “We’ve heard where the district attorney would discuss why Gosnell Pennsylvania, and the Department of Health knew and tells Citizen. “It was pretty hard to from people who’ve gone on to was being charged with eight counts of first-degree didn’t intervene—we just had to make this film.” hear.” contact their representatives to murder—one for a woman who died under his care, That film turned out to be 3801 Lancaster: But it was what Gosnell wasn’t make sure nothing like this does and the rest for babies born alive whose spinal cords he American Tragedy, which is being released on DVD that most surprised Altrogge. happen where they live. That severed with scissors. and digital on-demand streaming services on April 5. “The media had painted him was our goal going into it: No So Altrogge and his friend Mike Hartnett picked up as this B movie monster. I was more Gosnells. This should never their cameras and headed to Harrisburg. What they FROM THE SOURCE’S MOUTH surprised by how intelligent he happen to another woman or heard would change their lives, and obsess them for If this all sounds vaguely familiar, there are good was, how charming he was, how another baby.” the next five years. reasons: A 20-minute version of the movie won Best long and hard he’d thought about “I think people will come “It was riveting and terrifying and tragic, and Short Film at the 2013 Justice Film Festival, and the full what he did. What was most away really wrestling with why 60-minute version has been screened sobering to me was that he was a did this happen?” Altrogge says. in about 50 theaters nationwide since really intelligent man who wanted “What were the political forces last November, thanks to committed to help his community, and that allowed Kermit Gosnell to grassroots efforts. somehow these ideologies that he do the things he did? Is the real Though both versions feature bought into led him to do these villain Kermit Gosnell, or the state interviews with the women who horrible things. You talk to him agencies tasked with the oversight survived their visits to Gosnell’s and he doesn’t sound like a crazy of protecting society from the facility, the full-length version includes man. He sounds very rational and Kermit Gosnells? He could have investigators and detectives, as well collected, and has thought these been stopped over and over again, as something no one else has been things out. and for very political reasons they able to get: Interviews with Gosnell “Then you see the photos from said, ‘No.’ himself, who refused to take the stand inside the clinic and hear the “I hope people on both sides of as his trial concluded three years ago testimony of the women who went to him and you go, the abortion issue will watch this film and grapple with this month. He was convicted of the ‘Wow! What did he believe as truth that justified doing the facts of it.” murders of three babies born in his these horrible things?’ ” facility and involuntary manslaughter 3801 Lancaster is the first major documentary of the woman. the trio has put together, and they’re cagey about FOR MORE INFORMATION: “We were wrapping it up and thought discussing their own views on abortion with the press. To hold a screening of 3801 Lancaster: American we’d just write him and see if he’d talk,” “Our goal is to let the people in the story who suffered Tragedy in your town, or to order a copy on DVD Altrogge says. “We were getting ready so much at the hands of Dr. Gosnell be the voices that ($14.99, plus shipping and handling), to release the film without him when we speak in the film, and not our own,” Brown explains. visit 3801lancaster.com.

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