Solemn responsibilities

Sometimes I get bummed out that people won't just come out and say it when it comes to porn, infidelity and other nasty stuff: It's wrong! It hurts people! Stop doing it! And then I come across a talk like this from President Hinckley, who, I just have to say, is THE MAN! We sisters never heard this talk because it was given in the Priesthood Session, the men's meeting of LDS General Conference. But now that it's in print, we can read it. And ladies, let me tell you, I highly recommend that you do ... and pass it along to men and women as you see fit. Thank you, President Hinckley, for just coming out and saying it. 

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"Altogether too many men, leaving their wives at home in the morning and going to work, where they find attractively dressed and attractively made-up young women, regard themselves as young and handsome, and as an irresistible catch. 

They complain that their wives do not look the same as they did twenty years ago when they married them. To which I say, Who would, after living with you for twenty years?

The tragedy is that some men are ensnared by their own foolishness and their own weakness. They throw to the wind the most sacred and solemn of covenants, entered into in the house of the Lord and sealed under the authority of the holy priesthood. They set aside their wives who have been faithful, who have loved and cared for them, who have struggled with them in times of poverty only to be discarded in times of affluence. They have left their children fatherless. They have avoided with every kind of artifice the payment of court-mandated alimony and child support.

Do I sound harsh and negative? Yes, I feel that way as I deal with case after case and have done so over a period of time. Wrote Paul: 'But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those in his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.' (1 Tim. 5:8.) In that same epistle, he said to Timothy: 'Keep thyself pure.' (1 Tim. 5:22.)"

To access the whole talk, click here. And don't forget, I'm continually updating my "Talks & Articles" tab. :)