BYU student club: Students That Oppose Pornography

[MikeWaters]

http://newnewsnet.byu.edu/story.cfm/67694

The Lighted Candle Society aims to prosecute the pornography industry in the same way prosecutors attacked the tobacco industry. Justin Hart, vice president of communications for the society, explained it is not possible to use moral arguments in a court of law.

To prosecute the pornography industry, Lighted Candle Society has financed scientific research to prove that pornography causes severe problems within the brain. When researchers conducted fMRI scans on individuals who have been addicted to pornography for years, it was clear that "the part of the brain that deals with moral behavior failed to develop properly," Hart said. Essentially the person is brain damaged.

Well, there is a lot of brain damage occurring in Utah.

"We would hope that here in Utah we would not be following the trend of the nation," Alvord said. "However, we may be setting the trend. Utah ranks No.1 nationwide in Google searches for pornography."

A Deseret News article from October 2007 confirms this fact and gives other top Google searches in Utah.

A new theory on why Mormons aren't increasing their market share:

Harmer has spoken at many church firesides. Each bishop or stake president has told Harmer that pornography is the single biggest problem they face.

"The blight of pornography is Satan's last great hope to prevent the church from fulfilling its mission of preparing the earth for the savior's return," Harmer said.

This student group reminds me of Pete Townshend of The Who. Just be careful in doing "research." We don't want to find out that the President of the club has fallen from grace.....esp. after making statements like this:

"Pornography is destroying lives and it may literally destroy the next generation," Alvord said.

The article does briefly touch on the idea that pornography can be damaging to real-life sexual relationships. I don't have scientific evidence for it, but I would tend to agree with that.