“She has been called the pin-up preacher and porn again. On Thursday she was introduced on evangelist Pat Robertson’s ‘The 700 Club’ as a ‘holy hottie.’ [Heather] Veitch describes herself simply as an evangelist, the head of a trio of missionaries called JC’s Girls Girls Girls. Every month, JC’s Girls (JC is for Jesus Christ) and a few female volunteer church members visit strip clubs, where they pay for lap dances. While alone with a stripper in a booth, they forgo the dance and share the Gospel. In January, JC’s Girls went to Las Vegas for the AVN Adult Entertainment Expo, regarded as the nation’s largest trade show in the porn business, and handed out more than 200 Bibles wrapped in ‘Holy Hottie’ T-shirts. Veitch, 31, who was a stripper for four years, founded the outreach ministry last March. A few months later, she and fellow member Lori Albee launched an edgy website — www.jcsgirls.com — that trades on the sex appeal of JC’s Girls to attract visitors. Against a violet background, provocative appeals appear: ‘If you are a CHRISTIAN … See us in ACTION…’” — KTLA (US)

If you want to see a sexy evangelist, you can have a gander at jcsgirls.com. The three girls have that Barbie stripper look to them, like Southern belles who relocated to Southern California. They’re not the first to do Christian outreach in porn circles — remember xxxchurch.com? — but as hot chicks they may well have more success than cool minister dudes. That’s the belief of Sandals Church in Riverside, California, which funds the group. Apparently some locals dislike that their donations were being used to pay for lapdances, but the reverend feels that it’s a necessary evil when trying to reach strippers.

Anyway, if you’ve ever had an actual conversation with a stripper or hooker, you know that sex workers are just like any other random grouping of people: some are smart, some are dumb, some are nice, some are jerks, etc., etc. No doubt many girls are grateful to have their spiritual needs addressed in this way. Maybe others laugh at JC’s girls, figuring a Catholic school uniform is the only concession to God that a stripper ought ever to make.

In any event, it would be interesting to see atheistic strippers start a counter-initiative. If missionaries can come to strip bars to spread the word of Jesus, why can’t strippers go to church to talk about atheism? As they say, turnabout is fair play. Stripper athetists could emerge from the baptismal fount in wet t-shirts to talk about Darwin and evolution or Nietzsche and the death of God. Maybe they could even, uh, mount the pulpit and address the non-spiritual longings of the congregation. After all, the flesh has its needs too.

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