Half the fun with online news and blogs is reading the comments which are often a mixture of amusing, deluded or just downright weird. In the amusing category today is a comment from an article in The Salt Lake Tribune about an anti-pornography conference.
First some snippets from the article (emphasis mine) :
About 1,000 Utahns were told to join the “war on pornography” Saturday at a conference aimed at teaching them how to protect themselves and their children against it or how to get help if they are addicted.
“Internet pornography is the sexual revolution times 1,000,” said Patrick Trueman, former chief of U.S. Department of Justice’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section Criminal Division under President Reagan and President George H.W. Bush.
At the Utah Coalition Against Pornography’s ninth annual conference at the Little America Hotel, Trueman said porn leads to sex parties and prostitution and “hijacks our brain” to make users never satisfied, always seeking more deviant images.
It would seem that Mr Trueman is an expert on these matters.
Throw in a little bit of “but think of the cheeeeeldren” :
And he told parents to use computer filters.
Without one, “you might as well say to your kids, ‘Anything goes. We don’t love you enough to protect you.’
“What’s more damaging to a child, a handgun or a computer?” he rhetorically asked. “A handgun may not be loaded. The computer is loaded; it’s loaded to the hilt.”
Add some sex addiction therapy :
“This is a huge problem. It’s destroying families,” said Jonathan Taylor, who was at a booth promoting the group “Sons of Helaman.” It provides group therapy to Mormon men struggling with pornography addiction.
The 24-year-old from Riverdale said he is now recovering. Before, he would wake up anticipating and dreading when he would see the graphic images. “I felt out of control. It was dark.”
And, finally, help the poor teenagers inflicted with religion by their parents :
The coalition’s board includes Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff, the Utah Catholic Diocese, LDS Church and companies that offer counseling and Internet filters.”It’s one of the big problems affecting the youth in the church” said Peter Barlow, a counselor at an LDS church in Draper, who said church leaders urged members to attend the conference. “We need to figure out how to help them.”
He attended a session that offered warning signs of teen porn use, including using vulgar and sexual language, extreme religiosity or avoidance of church activities.
I am sure that was one fun convention.
Anyway, to the point of my post – the comments – this particular one sums it all up in a lot fewer words than the whole piece :
And while these people went out, their spouses and partners sighed collectively with relief and grabbed a box of Kleenex.
My thoughts exactly.
The coalition’s board includes Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff, the Utah
Catholic Diocese, LDS Church and companies that offer counseling and Internet filters.”It’s one of the big problems affecting the youth in the church” said Peter Barlow, a counselor at an LDS church in Draper, who said church leaders urged members to attend the conference. “We need to figure out how to help them.”
He attended a session that offered warning signs of teen porn use, including using vulgar and sexual language, extreme religiosity or avoidance of church activities.
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