Deep Throat traitor…
Deep Throat star Harry Reems, the first actor ever prosecuted for his work by the federal government, has unfortunately turned to Christianity:
For nearly three decades, Harry had been content to leave things unexplained. The trial had unleashed demons that nearly killed him - drink, drugs, debt, debasement, destitution, disease, institutionalisation - until he staggered into 12-step meeting in Park City, Utah, in the summer of 1989.
His life has been blessed since then, he says. He has married, embraced Christianity (though he was raised and still identifies himself as Jewish), and become a successful real-estate broker. He had no need for vindication, no interest in mucking through the past until he met the documentary team of Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato, directors of Inside Deep Throat.
Nice, sort of boring, article about his Christianity and how he was the poster boy for a freedom of expression movement and about how he is now making the Inside Deep Throat documentary regardless of his personal born-again beliefs. The troubling part of this article is the description of how he and his wife met:
They met at a 12-step meeting. ‘I thought it might be a good place to meet someone who believed in God,’ she explains. ‘Everyone else I knew was an atheist. I never spoke because I knew I wasn’t an alcoholic, but I really enjoyed hearing the stories.’
This is troubling to me… it reminds me of what I have been told about Alcoholics Anonymous programs. I have heard from nurses that born-again Christian groups take it upon themselves to send representatives to recovering alcoholic meetings in order to spread the word and recruit more Christians for their cause… I mean, just look at the current President of the United States… he traded his addiction to alcohol for his addiction to Jesus all at the same time.
An example of this growing problem can be seen in the organization Alcoholics For Christ, who manipulate the minds of the weak (ie. Alcoholics, drug addicts) for their own cult gains. The historical first mission of Alcoholics For Christ is documented here:
In 1976 a born-again recovering alcoholic attended an A.A men’s retreat. He had attended others in the past 1 1/2 years of his recovery and had always left these retreats with something good. This retreat was to be different. This retreat would be the beginning of a vision from God. He reasoned after the retreat that if people could stay sober without professional help at group meetings, why could not the same principals work on retreats as well. So in that same year he organized a retreat for A.A. men with a slight difference. All the leadership were born-again Christians.
Two significant miracles happened at this retreat. The first was that except for the leadership, no one else was a Christian, but by the end of the retreat on Sunday almost every man there had made a decision to accept Jesus Christ as his personal Savior.
God help us…
Link: Porn-Again Christian
Link: Alcoholics For Christ