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For years, churches were in denial about the scope of the problem, but the toll on marriages, careers, and faith communities has grown, Christian leaders say.

Yeah, and conservative churches were in denial about divorce for decades, too. They're getting better, but there are a lot of divorced couples out there who could have worked things out if they had had a competent Christian counselor before things got too bad.

And it involves not only congregants, but pastors. In a 2001 survey published in Leadership Journal, 37 percent of pastors said pornography was a struggle for them, and 51 percent admitted it was a temptation.

All but the most backwoods preacher has Internet access these days. Why wouldn't they be tempted along with everyone else? They work alone all day for the most part, don't they? And like other people in the "helping" professions, they spend so much time ministering to other people, sometimes they don't take enough time for themselves. And has anyone here besides me ever seen some of the dysfunctional environments these guys have to work in (and under)? I've seen so many church elders on a Power Trip it's not even funny. You couldn't pay me a million dollars to be a preacher.

"Wherever I am ... and no matter what the denomination, at least half of the men in the church admit to being sexually addicted," he says.

Oh, hogwash. What's his definition of being "sexually addicted," not being able to resist the temptation to visit a porn site every once in a while? I wish people would leave that phrase for the most hard-core cases instead of throwing it around so easily.