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Daily Inspiration Quote by Jessica Hahn

"Church is great, but I found my church here. Hugh Hefner has been nothing but a gentleman"

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The line lands like a cultural mic-drop from the late-20th-century scandal economy: a woman notorious for being chewed up by televangelist hypocrisy calmly relocating the word "church" to the Playboy mansion. Jessica Hahn isn’t praising pornography as theology so much as weaponizing America’s most loaded symbol of moral authority to expose who actually treated her with dignity.

The subtext is transactional but also accusatory. "Church is great" nods to the expected script, a quick genuflection toward respectability that keeps her from sounding purely antagonistic. Then she pivots: "but I found my church here". The move is rhetorical jujitsu. She reframes "church" not as doctrine but as sanctuary, community, and protection. In the context of Hahn’s public story - pulled into a sex scandal involving televangelist Jim Bakker, then relentlessly judged, doubted, and commodified by both religious media and mainstream outlets - the Playboy brand becomes a deliberately perverse refuge: the supposedly sinful institution offers her what the righteous one didn’t.

"Hugh Hefner has been nothing but a gentleman" is the payoff. Calling Hefner a gentleman isn’t naive; it’s comparative. She’s indicting the men who wrapped themselves in piety while exploiting her, and she’s doing it with a single, disarming word that carries old-school codes of restraint, manners, and consent. The quote works because it flips the moral scoreboard: the place America labels dirty becomes the site of basic decency, while the place that sells purity looks predatory.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Hahn, Jessica. (2026, January 16). Church is great, but I found my church here. Hugh Hefner has been nothing but a gentleman. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/church-is-great-but-i-found-my-church-here-hugh-133197/

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Hahn, Jessica. "Church is great, but I found my church here. Hugh Hefner has been nothing but a gentleman." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/church-is-great-but-i-found-my-church-here-hugh-133197/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"Church is great, but I found my church here. Hugh Hefner has been nothing but a gentleman." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/church-is-great-but-i-found-my-church-here-hugh-133197/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.

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Jessica Hahn (born July 7, 1959) is a Celebrity from USA.

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