Spencer W. Kimball Quotes
So long as men are corrupt and revel in sewer filth, entertainers will sell them what they want. Laws may be passed, arrests may be made, lawyers may argue, courts may sentence and jails may harbor men of corrupt minds, but pornography and allied insults to decency will never cease until men have cleansed their minds and cease to require and pay for such vile stuff.
Spencer W. Kimball, 1895–1985, President of the Mormon Church, The Miracle of Forgiveness
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Refusing to overturn a lower court's ruling that pornographic magazines were lot legally obscene in the light of the Supreme Court definition depending on community standards.
The sexism and classism in these few lines is a classic of the censorship literature.
Sapho, a play, opened in New York taking sexual explicitness to a new level. The hero, leaves the stage carrying the famous actress, Olga Nethersole, upstairs to an unseen bedroom presumably for sex. There was no explicit sex but the “immorality” lay in the fact that a woman was portrayed as a sexual being at a time when most “expert thinking” held that women were devoid of sexual pleasure. The New York City vice squad, responding to the many complaints, closed the show, causing national controversy which exploded further when the courts ruled that sexual innuendo was insufficient to censor the show and it re-opened.
The National Organization for Decent Literature was a pressure group made up mostly of Roman Catholic Priests. It was founded 1938, and ran until the late 1960s when changes in society had obsoleted their “values” and rigid concepts of “decency”.
Protesting the Supreme Court Texas v. Johnson decision protecting the right to burn the American flag as "symbolic speech:"
Writing about President George Washington:. Bache, a grandson of Benjamin Franklin, was jailed under the Sedition Act for his writings against the government.
strict and intrusive law enforcement (See {595406})
Spencer Woolley Kimball was an American business, civic, and religious leader, and was the twelfth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). The grandson of early Latter-day Saint apostle Heber C. Kimball, Kimball was born in Salt Lake City, Utah Territory. He spent most of his early life in Thatcher, Arizona, where his father, Andrew Kimball, farmed and served as the area's stake president. He served an LDS mission from 1914 to 1916, then worked for various banks in Arizona's Gila Valley as a clerk and bank teller. Kimball later co-founded a business, selling bonds and insurance that, after weathering the Great Depression, became highly successful. Kimball served as a stake president in his hometown from 1938 until 1943, when he was called to serve as a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.
