Of all the lurid details we heard during the Josh Duggar trial, before he was sentenced to over 12 years in prison for downloading and possessing illicit images of child sexual abuse, one of the most surprising involved a spying app called Covenant Eyes that had been installed on his computer.

The Christian accountability program was supposed to alert certain designated people if you were looking at anything online that you shouldn’t have been. It’s primarily known as a tool used by pastors to keep tabs on gay members who think they’re “struggling” with same-sex attraction and need a babysitter to make sure they’re not looking at gay videos on adult sites.

Duggar had the program installed on his work computer, personal computer, and phone so his wife could check that he wasn’t looking at any sort of pornography. During his trial, however, we learned that Duggar found a workaround: He installed a Linux partition that basically allowed him to use his computer in a way that wasn’t seen by Covenant Eyes. The app didn’t catch any of the illegal things he did.

None of that has stopped churches from using the software, though. It’s been downloaded over 100,000 times, according to WIRED, and it’s being used to monitor a lot more than adult content. In fact, at one evangelical church, Gracepoint Church in California, the pastors use it in a cult-like way to monitor everything their leaders and certain members are doing online.

That includes doing Google searches concerning any religious doubts. ...