Pornography #9

"Then suddenly, there appears before us in this generation a sinister and diabolical enemy--pornography. Like the bark beetle it too is the carrier of a deadly disease. I shall name it 'pernicious permissiveness.'

"At first we scarcely realize we have been infected. We laugh and make light-hearted comment concerning the off-color story or the clever cartoon. With evangelical zeal we protect the so-called rights of those who would contaminate with smut and destroy all that is precious and sacred. The beetle of pornography is doing his deadly task—undercutting our will, destroying our immunity, and stifling that upward reach within each of us."

President Thomas S. Monson, "Pornography--the Deadly Carrier," General Conference October 1979