The Genesis family muggings
Editorial
Convicted murderer Ted Bundy was executed in Florida early in 1989 for murdering
28 women and girls. Before his death he chillingly told author Dr. James Dobson
of his addiction to pornography from the age of 12. Bundy warned that more of his
kind of viciousness would erupt as people were exposed to pornography. He confessed
that at least 28 families tragically paid the price of his addiction to porn.
Pornography ruins families and societies. It hits at the basest human emotion and
inflames it like dry leaves dumped on a forest fire. A little is always too much.
Pornography is a direct attack on the family that God created. It defiles the married
state as defined by God, and entices the human desire to sexual expression outside
marriage. Yet governments are being lobbied heavily to lift restrictions on pornography.
Former porn video star Linda Lovelace is now a fighter against pornography. Lovelace
became an instant star through the film Deep Throat. She spent only three
and a half weeks in the porn industry. In the few weeks she spent making Deep Throat,
she says she was exploited, physically and mentally beaten and bruised, threatened
with guns, and told that her family would suffer if she caused trouble. Psychiatrists
have said that the only difference between her story and others is that she has
lived to tell about it.
Linda Lovelace is now a mentally scarred mother. She has spent the past 11 years
trying to warn a largely uncaring world about the cold and callous world of pornography.
Through an emotional letter read out loud to members of the Australian Capital Territory’s
House of Assembly by independent member Dennis Stevenson on 14 February 1990, Lovelace
pleaded for an end to the X-rated video industry.
‘How many times will women be molested and photographed for videos and sex
magazines?’ she asks. ‘How many times will we allow children to be influenced
by pornography and photographed for sex magazines? Do you think people get those
[pornographic] ideas from watching Gone With the Wind or Walt Disney’s
Bambi?’
The family unit established by our Creator and recorded in the book of Genesis is
under attack more than ever. One woman for one man for life is what God ordained.
Therefore anything that deliberately violates the Creator’s instructions is
going to cause trouble and misery. We see the tragic results of this violation all
around us. Broken homes, deserted spouses, grief, bitterness, and loneliness add
up to enormous social and personal cost. While many factors are to blame, society
can too easily dismiss the growing threat from pornography.
Pornographers have much the same slogan as the homosexual lobby: ‘The law
has no place in the home.’ Porn pedlars say that people should be free to
watch X-rated videos in their own homes. But as Australia’s Festival of Light
leaders point out, if this were true then ‘the law has no place to inhibit
incest, which also occurs in the bedroom’, or domestic murders which take
place in the home.
And what’s to stop children viewing their parents’ porn videos when
the adults are not home? How many will turn into another Ted Bundy? Children are
even exploited as actors and models in many porn videos and magazines.
Rapes have increased dramatically in parts of Australia since the introduction of
hard-core pornography in 1970. One outstanding case is South Australia, where rapes
have increased 2,000 percent in these past 20 years. Rape in other states, too,
has increased alarmingly since hard-core porn has been available. Conversely, tougher
restrictions on pornography in some parts of America, such as in Cincinnati, Ohio,
and in the State of North Carolina, reportedly have shown an encouraging drop in
sex-related crimes.
When attacks on the Genesis family take place, trouble follows. The cause may be
pornography, homosexuality, abortion, rape, alcoholism, paedophilia, adultery, incest,
drug-taking (as a personal testimony in this issue of Creation magazine
shows), or some other rebellion against the family unit as set up by God. Whatever
it is, it will cause misery for innocent people unless it is stopped.
The family built on the Creator’s guidelines in Genesis and the rest of the
Bible will always survive with God’s help. Tragedy strikes when someone thinks
another road leads to more adventure.
Governments and individuals desperately need to heed the warnings of Ted Bundy,
whose own death and that of 28 others resulted from his obsession with pornography
… And the warnings of Linda Lovelace, now Mrs Linda Marciano, who has survived
to warn us of the trauma she suffered in pouring out some of the porn that Bundy
drank … And of Jesus Christ who, as our Creator, established the only way
the family can function safely until the end of time.
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