Porn is bad

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I just got this in an email. I just want to say that as of this moment I have a dumpster being delivered so that I can throw all my porn away so that I don't have to go on a murderous rampage covering 13 states 18 malls, 22 schools, and one small ice cream stand (although a hot dog stand might do). But anyway I'm gonna go kill people if I don't dump my porn.


Dear Friend,

Friday, January 23, is a historic day for Focus on the Family(r)--and
for me personally. It will be 20 years ago that I sat down across from
convicted serial killer Ted Bundy for his final interview before he was
executed in a Florida state prison.

I will be sharing my recollections of that interview this Friday on the
new Fox News Channel(r) series "Glenn Beck(r)," which airs at 5 p.m.
EST.

My purpose in going on Glenn's show is to discuss the reason why Bundy
chose me for his final interview when every major news anchor at every
TV network was jostling for an exclusive conversation. Bundy wanted to
talk about the role media violence and particularly violent, hard-core
pornography had played in his years-long killing spree, and he knew the
mainstream media wouldn't report that story.

He chose to tell his story to me because he knew of my work in the
mid-'80s on the Attorney General's Commission on Pornography, which
studied its harmful effects on individuals and society. During our
hour-long conversation, Bundy took care not to blame his murderous
actions on his addiction to pornography--but made clear it played a
significant role in his crimes.

"Pornography can reach out and snatch a kid out of any house today. It
snatched me out of my home 20, 30 years ago," he told me on January 23,
1989. "I'll tell you, there are lots of other kids playing in streets
around the country who are going to be dead tomorrow and the next day
and the next day and next month, because other young people are reading
the kinds of things and seeing the kinds of things that are available in
the media today."

Sadly, Bundy was right. Pornography has been found in the possession of
almost every killer where sex has been the motivation, including two of
the most notorious serial killers of the last two decades: Green River
Killer Gary Leon Ridgway and BTK Killer Dennis Rader. No, not everyone
who uses pornography becomes a murderer, but there are serious
consequences to pornography addiction. Studies done since my
conversation with Bundy have documented corrosive effects on marriages
and families, such as increased marital distress and risk of separation
and divorce; decreased marital intimacy and sexual satisfaction; and a
devaluation of monogamy, marriage and child-rearing.

Consider also that Bundy's comments were made before the Internet age
and the easy availability of the most sickening kinds of pornography on
the Web. He also spoke at a time when hotel porn and even cell-phone
porn were not the problems they are today. The future predicted by Ted
Bundy is worse than he ever could have imagined--and that's the main
message I hope to get across in my time with Glenn Beck this Friday.

I do hope you will tune into the show--and will continue to partner with
Focus on the Family in fighting the scourge that is pornography.

Sincerely,
Dr. James Dobson