As an attorney and former legislator who for several decades has engaged the vicious enemy in the war against pornography, author John Harmer knows whereof he speaks. In this book he speaks with striking clarity and strength of purpose.
Early in the battle, ten-year-old Kelly, the sweet daughter of a close friend, was brutally assaulted and then murdered by a pornography-crazed young man. In the past forty years thousands of innocent victims have suffered and died in that same way. What is going on “out there”? Well, John Harmer knows the battle is not always “out there,” but too frequently is raging closer to home. On the broader field the antagonists arrayed against decency have supplied ill-gotten money and resources, lawyers, and specious arguments that together have nearly always prevailed in the courtroom. The author, who has been there all the way, names names as he boldly paints the picture and points the finger.
He borrows the phrase, “We have met the enemy, and he is us.” Using TV and the Internet, the wealthy pornographic interests now market their wares directly into our homes. And there is always the movies. Latter-day Saints and other clean-minded people need to be involved, the author suggests, controlling the TV in their children’s interests. But for movies, don’t rely on the ratings, he says; these were rigged from the beginning.
This remarkable book truly will educate the reader on this subject to a degree not previously attained. One suggestion is also a challenge: As Latter-day Saints, let us use the thirteenth-article-of-faith criterion of always seeking after what is “virtuous, lovely, or of good report or praiseworthy.”
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