It’s really upsetting to know that people that I associate with blatantly disregard basic respect and moral responsibility.
I’ve been working really hard on turning my life around lately. It’s easy to understand where I have been emotionally for the past few months- teetering on the edge of my security and reason- so deciding where to go and who to trust has been an issue to say the least. I’ve also struggled to decide what exactly I’m going for and what my current goal is, because my previous desire lead me here (not to the location where my initial goal was stationed). I still think that it’s a righteous desire, but the getting there is a tough road filled with obstacles, foreseen and unforeseen. The things and people challenging my ideals and hopes sometimes feel like enough to make me quit.
It’s hard to point yourself in a direction worth pursuing when so many forces are hedged against you. I feel like sometimes, people and their nature become such a roadblock that trust cannot be built and therefore becomes impossible to earn. The way I see it, the expectations for some people are so below what should be achieved that, when presented with a better alternative, they disregard it as a secondary good of sorts, believing that what they think is the best thing is better than what is, in reality, the best thing.
I’ll be more specific: I absolutely DETEST anyone who disregards the sanctity of women and accepts a whorish replica of a virtue. Men who treat women as objects, numbers, or disposable creatures in any way are fools, and when I hear them speak of a woman with any level of disrespect, I am immediately upset. This ridiculous model that is placed before us- the one that tells us that we are only as good as our outward appearance, our sexual abilities, and our displayable achievement- is disgusting, abhorrent, and vile, and any LDS man who buys into it or supports it in any way should seriously consider immediate and serious repentance and inner cleansing. I would NEVER consider entering the house of the Lord with such a skewed perception and sinful belief in fears of offending God himself with such a gross spiritual crime stained on my person. The lesson I taught today reaffirmed the fact that the Lord sees a hidden sin as an act of hypocrisy, and He measures such a sin with greater weight than that of a sin brightly displayed and admitted. That is why in that last and great judgment day, the Lord will seek out and destroy all the “secret combinations.” Those aren’t just the gangs and the terrorist groups; those are the secret sins and pleasures that we attempt to hide from his view. But there is no crevice or darkened corner that he cannot see. He knows your thoughts and your secret intentions.
What is a woman? She is someone with abilities and potential beyond any Earthly measure. She brings to the table clarity, patience, compassion, understanding, and love. She is the key to bringing new individuals to this Earth and rearing them with the right model in mind as they make their own way in this awful world. Without the woman, there would be no life. What, then, is the proper way to regard her? She is to be revered, cherished, and respected.
Think now of a visual; you have your own daughter, a small, innocent child, in your arms. As you look at her, do you see a sex toy? Do you see a symbol of filth and a temporary cure for one’s insidious appetite? Do you hope that she becomes any of these things? Do you hope that men see her and think only of what they can do to her or how they can benefit from using her?
That’s exactly what you do every time you think of a grown woman that way. In a sense, you are condoning a sick model for womanhood and participate in the objectification of women. You are taking that child and turning her into an animal. You’re allowing this world to look at your precious child and the millions more as worthless creations. Because of you, the world with take her and abuse her in their minds and ultimately on the billboard down the street. Unbelievable.
I cannot believe what the young men in this church are allowing to enter into their lives. It sickens me to think my children will someday live in a world where such a terrible and destructive idea is right at their doorstep. What sickens me even more is knowing that those men with the priesthood, those who are sworn to protect and provide for them, are poisoned with such an repugnant sin in their lives.
No wonder a girl thinks twice about committing and marrying these days!
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