When I said that I didn't have to worry about Sports Illustrated Swimsuit covers again until Februrary, I was sadly mistaken. Grocery shopping last week, I was greeted at the check out line by their "Special Edition Painted On Swimsuit Edition". Oh, Joy. Of course I spoke politely to the manager about removing it or covering up the picture. I got a polite but non-commital response from him. If any of you see that, will you please speak or write a note for the manager? I really appreciate that.
I was talking to my husband's cousin the other day, and she mentioned that their Relief Society is doing an Enrichment activity based on President Hinckley's 6 Be's. The key-note speaker was covering "Be Clean" and it is a therapist who will be speaking on how to keep safe from internet porn. (S--Correct me if I got any of this wrong, okay?) This cousin also mentioned how in her husband's extended family, an 11-year old boy was given a link to a pornographic website from his "friends". He checked into it, started experimenting, and had to be removed from his own home because he was making it an unsafe environment for the other family members. This cousin realized that she needed to start talking to her older boy (is he 10?) about what he was seeing. When she asked if he'd ever seen any inappropriate pictures, he said, "Yes, in the checkout line at Walmart." It's exactly like JoAnn Hibbert Hamilton says in her book, People Speaking Out for Decency:
"Phil Burress, President, Citizens for Community Values, Cincinnati, Ohio, said at Impact America Conference, April 2000, "Ninety-five percent of our children have already been exposed to pornography. Much of this early exposure was in store checkout lanes. ...Of the hundreds of addicts I have spoken to in the last four years, about 95% of them said that their addiction first began with swim suit images, often seen for the first time on or in a magazine. Donna Rice Hughes, Kids On Line, stated that....Often in play [children] act out what they have seen."
This cousin also said that Sister Beck talked in the BYU Women's Conference about needing to do more in the community to protect our children. I haven't been able to find the transcript and I wasn't there, but it sounds good to me!
Here I am!
2 years ago
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Thanks for the quote from Phil Burress. Very disturbing. Wish the people at my community pool would refrain from wearing lowcut swimsuits and bikinis. There's unfortunately way too much flesh shown at the pool. Ugh!
I just caught up on your blog and was reminded why I love you so much! Thanks for being my friend,
JenLin
You got it pretty much right. Unfortunately, when our speaker came, he had decided to change the subject and didn't even deal with pornography or the internet at all! It was a good talk, just not what we had asked him to speak on, dang it! I looked for the transcript from Julie Beck and couldn't find it either. I looked at my notes though. She used Alma 48:7-9 How Moroni prepared the cities for battle against the Lamanites, building fortresses and strengthening their weakest places. She talked about how we need to do this with our homes and schools. "They" don't have the responsibility to make these places fortresses, we should be the "They". I don't know if that makes sense or not.
Ok, so I didn't explain myself or Sis. Beck very well, but my wonderful husband found a link for the audio and video! WooHoo! So now you can hear it straight from the horses mouth. I apologize if I interpreted what she said wrong, but that was the take-home message I got from it!
http://byubmp3.byu.edu/wconf08/beck.mp3
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