f permissiveness of moral violation and confusion. It is a time that demands that the church be a clear voice of morality and its role in society. Pornography and wanton violence in the media can blind people to the divine images, the very likeness of God, in the human being. We are made in the image of God, and to portray that image in a perverse and corrupt way for the enjoyment of others is not only immoral, but goes against our human nature and purpose, to know, love, and serve God in this life, as well as through to the next. To willingly disobey God and pervert one of his creatures is sacrilegious, and a grave offense against God. We must educate those in Catholic schools as to why pornography is wrong, and why we must fight against it. Combined, the voices of all morally fit individuals in society would be loud enough to cause the communications industry to cease the senseless proliferation of immoral content into society. Everyone must resist the temptation and not give in to the grip that pornography has on a lot of people in this world. As it is now, in an unscientific poll, if offered just $100,000 to pose for a pornographic magazine, almost fifty percent of high school students would seriously consider performing this immoral and unspeakable act. Pornography has many obvious as well as not-so-obvious consequences within society. Pornography has the power to ruin marriages, destroy trust, excite a person to the point of sexual crime, or create an unhealthy view of human sexuality and the opposite sex. If a married man purchases a pornographic magazine and looks through it, he involuntarily loses some respect for the opposite sex, by reducing them to an object to satisfy his sexual desire. If the magazine is discovered by his wife, she loses faith in him, weakening their marriag...
