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“People who read succeed,” she said. “If a student reads well, school is easier. Lu Ann Staheli
- War On Pornography
We
need to protect our children, our families, and our communities from
this scourge.
- What If They Still Won’t
Reading on Floor 908 By: Lu Ann Brobst Staheli
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- Legacy Law Foundation
To educate and raise awareness among responsible citizens on public policy issues compatible with traditional family values and to train legal professionals to strategize, advocate and litigate for principle-based family policies in the public square.
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Seeks lasting solutions to community problems by transcending politics as usual.
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- Family Life Home & Family Living
To make The Family: A Proclamation to the World live in the hearts and minds of students.
- Dr. Laura Schlessingers Foundation
What Dr. Laura thinks could help you and your family.
- "Knowledge does away with darkness, suspense, and doubt; for these cannot exist where knowledge is . . . In knowledge there is power." -- Joseph Smith, Jr.
Students That Oppose Pornography!
- WHAT WILL BE THE ULTIMATE CALAMITY
IF THE PORNOGRAPHY EPIDEMIC IS NOT STOPPED?
“There comes a time when the general defilement of a society becomes so great that the rising generation is put under undue pressure and cannot be said to have a fair choice between the way of light and the way of darkness. When such a point is reached, the cup of iniquity is full, and the established order that has passed the point of no return and neither can nor will change its ways must be removed, physically and forcibly if necessary, from the earth, whether by war, plague, famine, or upheavals of nature.”
Professor Hugh Nibley
- Orange Juice!
It seems like whenever I get into a conversation with people about popular movies, there¹s a line that always goes something like this, ³Oh, there¹s just that one little part you have to worry about but other than that, it¹s a great movie! You ever heard that line? A - well, to me that¹s an instant danger signal there¹s something wrong. Well now, in regards to movies like that, I have a story.
One Sunday afternoon we were just finishing our family dinner when somehow the conversation turned to popular movies. One of my daughters mentioned a very popular movie that had one of those very objectionable scenes in it. And she said something like this. Dad, what¹s so wrong with that movie? I¹d really like to see it. We can always fast forward that two minute part. Now, she knew about the bad part in that movie. She knew it was wrong, but the rest of the movie had captured her imagination and she wanted to see it.
Now, therein lies the problem. People¹s taste in music and movies is an extension of what¹s in their hearts. So to criticize their movies or their music is to criticize them, and they take it personally.
Well, instead of arguing with my daughter, I remembered something a friend of mine had done in a class. Sitting on the table was a pitcher of orange juice with just one cup left in the bottom. I poured that last cup, held it up, and asked her if she wanted it. Now, my children love O. J., and of course she wanted it.
Okay then I said, follow me. With most of my children curiously following, I took the glass of orange juice and walked into the bathroom. I reached into the toilet with another cup and dipped out some toilet water. Ever so carefully, I poured just one tiny drop of toilet water into the orange juice. I held it out to her. Here you go, I said.
She screamed! and ran out of the bathroom. But, honey, I said as I held it out to her, It¹s only one little drop. I don't care! she yelled. It¹s yucky!
You know, I could not get her to come within ten feet of that glass of orange juice. I finally had to pour it out, and well, you know where.
Now since that time, I have not had a single argument with any of my children about which movies they should be watching. I hope I never have to.
The prophet, Isaiah, once said, Be ye clean, that bear the vessels of the Lord. (Isaiah 52:11)
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