Saturday, June 9, 2007

Pornography

The spreading oil slick of pornography … carries with it terrible consequences such as bizarre and oppressive sexual behavior, child and spouse abuse, and ultimately a loss of the capacity to love. Unfortunately there is no "superfund" available to underwrite the cleanup of this destructive ooze. In fact, the funding flows in just the opposite direction, as that ancient cartel of lust and greed has significant sway once again. Meanwhile those coated in the awful ooze of pornography are effectively beached, and on filthy shores. Spiritually speaking, they can never take wing again until the ooze is finally cleaned off-"every whit"! (That Ye May Believe, p. 99.)

Pornography especially victimizes women and children. Why then the inordinate preoccupation with its protection? Pornography is better protected than citizens on the streets! (Ensign, May 1993,...p. 77.)

It is clear in our time that lust and greed, that ancient alliance, have re-formed and commercialized around pornography, trying to clothe themselves in the First Amendment and making it difficult to deal with them. (We Talk of Christ, We Rejoice in Christ, p. 98.)


(Cory H. Maxwell, ed., The Neal A. Maxwell Quote Book [Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1997], 257.)

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