{"id":3053,"date":"2006-04-05T17:13:10","date_gmt":"2006-04-05T22:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/?p=3053"},"modified":"2006-04-06T12:04:26","modified_gmt":"2006-04-06T17:04:26","slug":"rethunk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2006\/04\/rethunk\/","title":{"rendered":"Danger Rethunk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve taken down the post titled &#8220;The Real Danger?&#8221; because it was pointed out to me that its impetus was unnecessarily divisive.  This was certainly not my intent and so I considered deleting my first paragraph.  Without a statement of that impetus, however, the post simply became a denunciation of pornography, which someone else pointed out was something everyone agrees with and someone else said was old news.  Such a denunciation has been done much more effectively in the LDS context by President Monson in the recent General Conference and by President Hinckley in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lds.org\/conference\/talk\/display\/0,5232,23-1-479-20,00.html\">Priesthood Session of the April 2004<\/a> General Conference.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to see a Mormon &#8220;standing on a wall&#8221; preaching against the insufferable evil of pornography, go to those sources. <\/p>\n<p><i>[UPDATE:  I have reposted the original in fairness to the commenters and the record.]<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve taken down the post titled &#8220;The Real Danger?&#8221; because it was pointed out to me that its impetus was unnecessarily divisive. This was certainly not my intent and so I considered deleting my first paragraph. Without a statement of that impetus, however, the post simply became a denunciation of pornography, which someone else pointed out was something everyone agrees with and someone else said was old news. Such a denunciation has been done much more effectively in the LDS context by President Monson in the recent General Conference and by President Hinckley in the Priesthood Session of the April 2004 General Conference. If you want to see a Mormon &#8220;standing on a wall&#8221; preaching against the insufferable evil of pornography, go to those sources. [UPDATE: I have reposted the original in fairness to the commenters and the record.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corn"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}