Jenna Jameson, Janet Jackson, and The Jesus Chainsaw Massacre

the box office receipts in the us are in for the easter weekend in the us, and the jesus chainsaw massacre, in theatres for 7 weeks, has climbed back into the number one spot. at the same time, us attorney general john ashcroft has quietly begun an initiative to tackle a pernicious problem according to the religious right in the us: pornography. my question for the religious right is simple: how is it possible to embrace a movie so overwhelmingly violent in content, even encouraging parents to take their children to see it and ignore the r rating?: "the violence is necessary to understand the sacrifice jesus made," first family pastor jerry johnston says. his baptist church has rented out a half-dozen theaters in kansas city, kan., and has reserved auditoriums friday night for children ...