“An internationally televised grooming session.” That’s how Ruth Institute President Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse, Ph.D., described the hyper-sexualized halftime
show at Sunday’s Super Bowl. “Convincing prospective victims that overtly sexual displays are normal and empowering, softening victims up to ‘consent’
to sex more readily–these are the hallmarks of sexual grooming.”
Father Mark Hodges, an Orthodox priest and the Ruth Institute’s Dr. J Show producer, added, “The show included a series of bumps and grinds, which offered flashes of crotch and brazenly featured the performers’ buttocks.”
To make matters worse, the pre-game entertainment featured The Children’s Voice Chorus of Miami, with 40 children, some pre-adolescent. The kids stayed
around for the game, including the halftime show’s sexual gyrations.
Fr. Hodges continued: “Around the huge choir of prepubescent girls was the symbol for female. But immodesty is not empowerment. Imagine watching that
‘family friendly’ broadcast with your little daughter. The lesson is that femininity means gyrating and thrusting your private parts toward the
camera.”
Morse also noted that Super Bowls generally include an upsurge of sex trafficking, including underage girls. “After giving some of the guys in Miami
what amounted to a sex show, spectators were then turned loose on the streets.”
It’s estimated that each year 17,500 individuals are trafficked in the United States, 81% of them for sexual purposes.
In preparation for the Super Bowl, Miami hotel workers, ride-hailing service drivers, and security personnel were given a crash course on how to combat
human trafficking. “The value of that well-intentioned training was more than offset by the sexual stimulation of the halftime show,” Morse observed.
To compliment the sleazy show, one Super Bowl ad featured drag queens, two former contestants on RuPaul’s ‘Drag Race.’ Meanwhile, Fox rejected an ad
by a new group called Faces of Choice, featuring the survivors of botched abortions.
Morse commented, “While FOX insisted on inflicting drag queens hawking hummus on American families, it decided a pro-life ad – which contained nothing
graphic — was just too much for Middle America to handle.”
Morse stated, “Corporate America, including the major networks and the NFL, have shown us that they are ‘all in’ for promoting the Sexual Revolution.
We call on Christian athletes, especially NFL players, to stop allowing their talent to be exploited for this purpose.”