Just
this month I read a review of a new movie. The leading actress told the
reporter that she objected initially to the script and the part she was
to play. The role portrayed her as the sexual companion of a
fourteen-year-old boy. She commented: “At first I said, ‘No way will I
agree to such a scene.’ Then I was given the assurance that the boy’s
mother would be present during all intimate scenes, so I agreed.”
I
ask: Would a mother stand by “watching,” were her son embraced by a
cobra? Would she subject him to the taste of arsenic or strychnine?
Mothers, would you? Fathers, would we?
“I do not believe the greatest threat to our future is from bombs or
guided missiles. I don’t think our civilization will die that way. I
think it will die when we no longer care. Arnold Toynbee has pointed out
that 19 of 21 civilizations have died from within and not by conquest
from without. There were no bands playing and flags waving when these
civilizations decayed. It happened slowly, in the quiet and the dark
when no one was aware.”
-Thomas S. Monson
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