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Only recently have parents begun teaching their children openly about inappropriate sexual relations. In the past, this was a taboo subject and children were left to learn from friends off the street or personal experience. Today, parents are fighting back. They are stepping up with open conversations to protect their children from the pain and suffering that comes from disobeying this most important of commandments.<\/span><\/p>\n

In our home, we waited until our children were teenagers before having \u201cthe talk.\u201d Our children are having \u201cthe talk\u201d with their 8-10-year-old children and they are thinking they might have to start even earlier than that. Fighting back means understanding the why<\/em> of this most precious of doctrines.<\/span><\/p>\n

There are just too many evil forces out in the world and parents absolutely have to be ready to be the first influencers in their children\u2019s lives. We can\u2019t be afraid to <\/span>be honest and blunt. We can\u2019t be shamed into silence when we are the ones who hold the very knowledge of exaltation.<\/span><\/p>\n

Recently, I looked up several talks given by the Brethren on chastity and love. There is <\/span>so much good advice and profound thought, I urge you to look up these talks for yourself and glean this powerful information. Truth and testimony are powerful.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Mark E. Petersen\u2014No True Worship Without Chastity<\/a><\/span><\/h2>\n

A minister, speaking to a group of college students in the 1960s, said, \u201cSex is fun\u2014premarital sex is beautiful\u2014we all ought to relax and stop feeling guilty about our sexual activities, thoughts, and desires.\u201d After quoting this minister, Elder Petersen stated boldly and without apology, \u201cTo reject or try to change the moral law of God is to reject God.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Bruce C. Hafen\u2014The Gospel and Romantic Love<\/a><\/span><\/h2>\n

In the 1970s, The American Psychiatric Association voted to remove homosexuality from its list of disorders. At that time, most psychotherapists believed and were teaching that \u201cdogmatism, inflexibility, and that [being extremely religious] is essentially emotional disturbance.\u201d Elder Hafen explains, \u201cIn other words, the way to relieve one\u2019s guilt about an immoral life is to begin believing there is no such thing as an immoral life.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Spencer W. Kimball\u2014Love vs. Lust<\/a><\/span><\/h2>\n

This is a very honest and blunt talk given by a prophet of God. What he says should shake us to the core.<\/span><\/p>\n

\n

\u201cI believe the youth of Zion want to hear the clear and unmistakable tones of the trumpet, and it is my hope that I can play the tune with accuracy and precision so that no honest person will ever be confused. I hope fervently that I am making clear the position of the Lord and His Church on these unmentionable practices.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMasturbation, a rather common indiscretion, is not approved of the Lord nor of His Church regardless of what may have been said by others <\/em>whose \u2018norms\u2019 are lower. Latter-day Saints are urged to avoid this practice.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cSometimes masturbation is the introduction to the more serious sins of exhibitionism and the gross sin of homosexuality.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMy beloved young folks do not excuse petting and body intimacies. I am positive that if this illicit, illegal, improper, and lustful habit of \u2018petting\u2019 could be wiped out, that fornication would soon be gone from our world.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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Ezra Taft Benson\u2014The Law of Chastity<\/a><\/span><\/h2>\n

Do we correlate chastity with murder? \u201cVery few of us will ever be guilty of murder or of the sin against the Holy Ghost. But the law of chastity is frequently broken, and yet it stands next to these other sins in seriousness in the eyes of the Lord.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

President Benson uses the old saying, \u201cIt is better to prepare and prevent than it is to repair and repent\u201d and offers eleven steps to help us arrive safely to the other side if we\u2019ve stayed pure as well as if we\u2019ve messed up. God is a loving and forgiving God and it is our choice to follow Him.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Jeffrey R. Holland\u2014Souls, Symbols, and Sacraments<\/a><\/span><\/h2>\n

Each of these talks I\u2019ve listed has been powerful as they warn us of the misery that is found in breaking God\u2019s law of chastity. Elder Holland explains further why this law cannot be changed and why it is so sacred to never be abused.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cOf all the titles he has chosen for himself, Father is the one he declares, and Creation is his watchword\u2014especially human creation, creation in his image. His glory isn\u2019t a mountain, as stunning as mountains are. It isn\u2019t in sea or sky or snow or sunrise, as beautiful as they all are. It isn\u2019t in art or technology, be that a concerto or computer. No, his glory\u2014and his grief\u2014is in his children. You and I, we are his prized possessions, and we are the earthly evidence, however inadequate, of what he truly is. Human life\u2014that is the greatest of God\u2019s powers, the most mysterious and magnificent chemistry of it all\u2014and you and I have been given it, but under the most serious and sacred of restrictions. You and I who can make neither mountain nor moonlight, not one raindrop nor a single rose\u2014yet we have this greater gift in an absolutely unlimited way. And the only control placed on us is self-control\u2014self-control born of respect for the divine sacramental power it is.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

These talks are worth your time in reading thoroughly. They are warnings to be sure, but mostly they are words of love for Heavenly Father\u2019s children to understand better this power we have been given and how best to use it to find happiness and eternal joy.<\/span><\/p>\n

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