Warnings about pornography from leaders
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President Gordon B.
Hinckley: "[Pornography] is vicious. It is lewd and filthy.
It is enticing and habit forming. It will take a young man or woman down to
destruction as surely as anything in the world. It is foul sleaze that
makes its exploiters wealthy, its victims impoverished. . . .
"I regret to say that many fathers themselves like to hear the siren song of those who peddle filth. Some of them also work the Internet for that which is lewd and lascivious. If there be any man within the sound of my voice who is involved in this, or who is moving in that direction, I plead with you to get it out of your life. Get away from it. Stay away from it. Otherwise it will become an obsession. It will destroy your home life. It will destroy your marriage. It will take the good and the beautiful out of your family relationships and replace these with ugliness and suspicion." (October 2000 General Conference address.)
President Thomas S.
Monson, first counselor in the First Presidency: "When I consider
the demons who are twins — even immodesty and immorality — I
should make them triplets and include pornography. They all three go
together.
"In the interpretation of Lehi's dream, we find a rather apt description of the destructiveness of pornography: "And the mists of darkness are the temptations of the devil, which blindeth the eyes, and hardeneth the hearts of the children of men, and leadeth them away into broad roads, that they perish and are lost." (October 2002 General Conference address.)
President James E. Faust,
second counselor in the First Presidency: "Another false philosophy
that appeals to the Mr. Hyde side of our natures is that peeking into
pornography is harmless. This is a terrible deception. Pornography is as
addictive as cocaine or any illegal drug." (October 2000 general conference
address.)
President Boyd K. Packer,
acting president of the Quorum of the Twelve: "Satan, with his
angels, will try to capture your thoughts and control what you do. If he
can, he will corrupt anything that is good. To him the Internet is just
that—a net to ensnare you into wicked addiction with pornography.
Unhappiness will follow." (October 2003 General Conference address.)
