On July 9, 2000, the anti-porn group Omaha for Decency ran a full page ad in the Omaha World Herald. The ad stated that businesses which sell porn should be criminally prosecuted in order to uphold morals and protect marriages. Local pastors signed the ad, including Michael Hintz, then a pastor at Trinity Church Interdenominational. (A copy of this ad is displayed here, names are in alphabetical order by last name.)
         Since then, Pastor Hintz moved to Iowa and became a pastor at the First Assembly of God Church in Des Moines. In October 2004, the 35-year-old married pastor was fired by the church when he admitted that he had been having sex with a 17-year-old girl from the church whom he had been counseling for emotional problems. ( WOWT Channel6, 12/8/2004, online. See also Des Moines Register, 12/8/2004 and Omaha World Herald, 3/9/2005.) Hintz thinks porn should be prosecuted to protect morals and marriages, yet he cheated on his wife with a 17-year-old he was supposed to be counseling. Highly unethical, to say the least. (And, because he was her counselor, a crime in Iowa. Hintz was charged with sexual exploitation by a counselor.) The Des Moines Register also reported that Pastor Hintz had "urged teens to avoid pursuing romantic relationships in favor of getting closer to God." Do you want a hypocrite like this dictating what you can and cannot view or read?