I also heard the film burning story on NPR. It caught my interest because it happened in Jacksonville, Florida, where I'm originally from. The films were in a storage cabinet in the snack bar of a defunct drive-in theater the church had recently bought. The theater, known as the Playtime Drive-In, featured X-rated films during parts of the '70s and '80s.

I guess that if the church bought the property, the films were theirs to do whatever that wanted with. But there's a fine line between making a moral statement by destroying something one has an unquestioned right to destroy and imposing ones's morality by destroying that which belongs to others. I would have liked for the interviewer to have given the minister a chance to show whether or not he understands the distinction.

I would also like to know whether he attacks the real evils of the world (war, starvation, disease, social injustice) with the same zeal with which he attacks the "evil" of pornography.