And he’s relying on friends from both camps in preparing for Sunday, when Gross will use the Super Bowl as a way to get churches around the country talking about pornography, a subject he calls “the elephant in the pew.”
He is dubbing the effort National Porn Sunday. Gross is the founder of XXXChurch, a Christian group that he says helps people battling pornography addictions.
The Quarterback
Gross recruited NFL players to join the effort, taping a video that he says will be shown at over 300 plus participating churches.
Matt Hasselbeck, who led the Seattle Seahawks to the Super Bowl in 2006, is one of the video’s stars.
Seattle Seahawks quarterback Matt Hasselbeck
Although he said he has never had a pornography addiction, Hasselbeck signed up for the free XXXchurch tracking software called X3watch.
“If I go to a site that’s questionable, a teammate gets an email and my wife gets an email,” Hasselbeck told CNN. “I thought about adding my mom too but decided against that,”
“It just keeps you accountable,” he said. “You know there’s a short term consequence to anything you do.”
He says the software added a layer of trust to his relationship with his wife.
“My email password is known to my wife, my voice mail password is known to her,” he said. “I’m still a guy married to a girl. In this country what you read, what you watch, and how you interact with other women can cause insecurity with your spouse.”
Gross says his campaign is about personal responsibility.
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