by Justin Hart
Vice President, Communications
Lighted Candle SocietyThe top questions I am getting via email: What is the Lighted Candle Society all about? What are you trying to accomplish?
First, let's set the stage:- The world is waking up to the threat that pornography poses to our society
- Virtually everyone has been effected by this vice
- Pornography is one of the primary causes of divorce and family break-up
- Pornography addiction is very real and can actually physically change the brain
What is the Lighted Candle Society?- The Lighted Candle Society is a non-profit organization with veteran warriors fighting pornography in a unique way
- We have 4 main goals:
- We support civil litigation against producers and distributors
- We finance scientific research into the addictive nature of pornography
- We publish information about the sources and effects
- We help those who have been harmed by the vice
What is FamilyFragments.com?- An interactive website where you can share your story. We are launching Family Fragments.com which will serve as a blog with other interactive tools and information on how to put the family back together and how to join our fight.
Why is the Lighted Candle Society different from other efforts?For years, we have been fighting pornography with the same old activist tools, rallying people around big headlines, signing petitions, and shouting really loud about how bad pornography really is. But these have largely been ineffectual. In our mind its time to turn the tables on the enemies of the family.
Think of it in these terms: if a company put out a product that seriously harmed your spouse and led to the ultimate break up of your entire family affecting not only your children but your grandchildren as well, wouldn’t you make every effort to see that justice was served against those people?
But we don’t need analogies to explain this. Take for instance the very real and very tragic story of Destiny Norton. Just one year ago this sweet six year old girl in Utah was lured into a home, suffocated by her abductor, and subjected to the unspeakable. Her killer then joined the search party for Destiny. He was found out, convicted and put away for life. Who was it? A 20-year old porn addict who admitted that he was playing out a fantasy that he had witnessed in his dark library.
What's the endgame here? What do you want to accomplish?We are under no illusion that pornography is going away. We have two outcomes that we think are realistic:
- We envision a world where pornography is shunned, spurned and widely recognized as a serious threat to our way of life.
- We strive for a world where the negative consequences of producing and distributing pornography far outweigh the financial benefits.
This is the fight of a lifetime. For many of us this is literally the culmination of decades of fighting. But we need your help.
We are looking to get
10,000 to give $10 a month to help in this fight. Essentially, you're investing less than a family trip to McDonalds to help fight pornography. Your listeners can visit Family Fragments.com for more information. This is not an inexpensive venture, the fight is risky but we think winnable.
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