Cree-L Kofford says LDS young people should not watch R-rated movies because the prophet (Ezra Taft Benson) said so.

Date
Jul 1998
Type
Periodical
Source
Cree-L Kofford
LDS
Hearsay
Direct
Reference

Cree-L Kofford, "Marriage in the Lord's Way, Part Two," Ensign, July 1998, accessed September 28, 2022

Scribe/Publisher
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
People
Cree-L Kofford
Audience
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Transcription

All too often, we get ourselves enmeshed in the process of trying to understand why God gave us a particular commandment. We want to rationalize. I don’t know where that is more evident than in watching movies. Young people know they should not watch R- or X-rated movies, and yet time after time I hear them say, “Well it’s only rated R because it’s violent.” What difference does it make why it is rated R? The fact is, a prophet of God has said not to go to R-rated movies (see, for example, Ezra Taft Benson, “To the ‘Youth of the Noble Birthright,’” Ensign, May 1986, 45). That ought to be good enough.

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