“We are being warned of the dangers of pornography as its pollution infests ever-growing numbers of people, but few regard it as a threat — at least until it creates havoc for them. With not enough fingers pointed in their direction, the pornography industry is making a bundle as it helps kill off morals and decay the fabric of good emotional and spiritual health.

Pornography is making a loud, quacking noise. Compiled evidence — lots of it — shows the devastating effects of this addiction on so many people. First-hand or second-hand, people are being affected, debilitated — even destroyed — by it.

The peddlers of pornography would have us believe that no harm is done- just as some peddlers of tobacco did for so many years. Data indicate a different picture:

Psychologist Edward Donnerstein, at the University of Wisconsin, conducted a study that found that even brief exposure to violent forms of pornography can lead to anti-social attitudes and behavior. Other studies back his up.

Exposure to pornography may diminish a person’s capacity for true intimacy. Researchers have found that those exposed to nonviolent pornography indicated a diminished satisfaction with their partner’s physical appearance, affection, and physical intimacy.

Nationwide studies show that where the circulation rates of pornography are up, so are the rape rates. Although rape is not usually a sexual act, but an act of violence, there is some correlation here.

Approximately 70 percent of the pornographic magazines sold end up in the hands of minors (The Pornography Plague , Kerby Anderson). Those minors cannot all be someone else’s children. Do we know what our children are experiencing — and accepting as a norm? What kind of marriages will they be able to create once their norms have shifted away from proper spiritual principles?

When viewing of pornography becomes habitual, there is a correlative increase in doubts about the value of marriage.”

Jenny Hatch
A More Excellent Hope — A Conference Geared toward Overcoming Pornography Addiction

Michelle Malkin: Happy President’s Day

February 21, 2007Jenny Marie Hatch

Happy President’s Day
Jenny Hatch

CapnBob has a message

February 21, 2007Jenny Marie Hatch

Dr. Sanity:THE CONSEQUENCES OF DENIAL

“The left’s current consensus view on terrorism and Iraq (“Victory is not an option”) is just plain wrong and cannot be justified or supported by the facts that are available. While victory is not guaranteed, this type of wishful thinking is a self-fulfilling prophecy because those who make it are actively working to ensure that defeat is the only option.

By doing so, they risk exposing for all to see their hidden agenda–which is nothing less than the defeat and humiliation of George W. Bush, the Republicans, and America.

Their rhetoric is designed to obfuscate and deny objective reality –which interestingly they don’t even believe in to begin with (or, they believe in it until it become threatening then they seek refuge behind postmodern political rhetoric). The motivation for their continual Bush/Republican bashing is simple: Bush is the current symbol of the left’s ideological demise as it is tossed into the trashbin of history. He is the fly in their utopian ointment; the light shining in their darkness.

In spite of the 2006 midterm elections which saw Democrats obtain a small majority in Congress, life has actually been going very badly for the left .

As the real world presses in on them, their voices have become more shrill and hysterical; their rage is escalating out of control. No longer do most of them even bother to argue their points logically; they simply loudly denounce any idea or person who threatens their ideology; or deliberately and with the ruthless finesse of all tyrants and thugs, simply attempt to suppress all dissenting opinions. (See the style of one of their heroes for an example of this)

9/11 did not wake them up; rather it forced them to openly move toward what they have supported surreptitiously all along–the elimination of free speech in the name of political correctness and multiculturalism; a dictatorship where the pseudo-intellectual, politically correct priesthood rule; and complete control over the lives of others (for their own good, of course!).”

Jenny Hatch