Most influential person

I was about to check my email when an article caught my eye on aol.com. It reads:

Surprises Abound on Most Influential List
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(April 27) - Who's the World's Most Influential Person? The answer is moot.
No, really. Time Magazine asked readers to vote online for the most influential person, and the winner was "moot" -- aka Christopher Poole. He's the founder of 4chan.org, an image-based bulletin board that averages 13 million page views a day and 5.6 million visitors a month. 4chan has spawned other wildly popular sites, such as Lolcats.



So, naturally I naively click on the site to check its content out and wouldn't you know the worlds most influential person has spearheaded a porn site.

How ridiculously sad. He is 21 years old and contributing to the destruction of our families. He has created a site that averages 13 MILLION page views a day. Husbands, sons, brothers, grandfathers and surely some women are all able to access pure filth because of the worlds most influential persons creation. And furthermore, if you didnt know about the site before, you will surely know now due to his new title.

My heart literally aches thinking that this is what we are dealing with. I guess that choosing an individual who has created a pornography site as the worlds most influential person definitely confirms where our society's priorities are.

What scares me the most is that pornography is literally at our fingertips. I was talking with a friend who provided this great visual. She said,

'I cant imagine what it would be like if every time I sat down at the computer it offered me chocolate. Chocolate is my favorite treat and Iets say I should never eat it. The thought of it being continually offered to me over and over is too much to comprehend. It is possible to think that every time your spouse or significant sits down to open his inbox he is probably being greeted with porn. At first he would say, No way and delete it. But time after time may lead to opening one. And another, etc.'

I like to think that porn is someone elses problem. But looking at our most influential person right now I can see that pornography is a community problem. The Catechism states that our political entities should be the ones in charge of monitoring and should prevent the production and distribution of pornography. So I started to think about where porn lurks in America.

First I thought about my time in Europe. I can remember being in Austria and there being awful porn pictures out in public. There are no laws concerning pornography there and pictures are everywhere. Talk about disgusting. But here in America the porn is sneaky. It literally lurks right in our laps when we are on the computer. It is quietly hidden in the programs of television. It use to exist only in the movie channels but now it sits right out in the open on prime time television. It sits on the shelves in our grocery stores on magazines like Vogue and Cosmopolitan. Slowly we are becoming desensitized to the overt porn lurking in our society.

How do we combat it?
What can we do to protect our loved ones?

Suggestions:

1. We have basic cable and will not buy movie channels.
2. We never buy magazines like Cosmo or Vogue.
3. We are conscious of lewd jokes and never respond to them in a positive manner.
4. We are conscious of the dangers of porn on the Internet and will take necessary measures to protect the family when our daughter is old enough to use the computer.
5. Prayer prayer and more prayer!

What do you do? How can we come together as a community and combat lewd and offensive material?

The catechism reads:

2354
Pornography consists in removing real or simulated sexual acts from the intimacy of the partners, in order to display them deliberately to third parties. It offends against chastity because it perverts the conjugal act, the intimate giving of spouses to each other. It does grave injury to the dignity of its participants (actors, vendors, the public), since each one becomes an object of base pleasure and illicit profit for others. It immerses all who are involved in the illusion of a fantasy world. It is a grave offense. Civil authorities should prevent the production and distribution of pornographic materials.

Even more interesting:

2211
The political community has a duty to honor the family, to assist it, and to ensure especially:
- the freedom to establish a family, have children, and bring them up in keeping with the family's own moral and religious convictions;
- the protection of the stability of the marriage bond and the institution of the family;
- the freedom to profess one's faith, to hand it on, and raise one's children in it, with the necessary means and institutions;
- the right to private property, to free enterprise, to obtain work and housing, and the right to emigrate;
- in keeping with the country's institutions, the right to medical care, assistance for the aged, and family benefits;
- the protection of security and health, especially with respect to dangers like drugs, pornography, alcoholism, etc.;
- the freedom to form associations with other families and so to have representation before civil authority.

We pray for an end to pornography. We pray that our loved ones eyes and hearts be protected. We pray that we are always catalysts of truth and promote the highest level of human dignity. Mary Mother Most Pure, Pray for us.