President Boyd K. Packer
“I know of nothing in the history of the Church or in the
history of the world to compare with our present circumstances. Nothing
happened in Sodom and Gomorrah which exceeds in wickedness and depravity that
which surrounds us now.
“Words of profanity, vulgarity, and blasphemy are heard
everywhere. Unspeakable wickedness and perversion were once hidden in dark
places; now they are in the open, even accorded legal protection.
“At Sodom and Gomorrah these things were localized. Now they
are spread across the world, and they are among us” (Boyd K. Packer, “The One
Pure Defense” [evening with a General Authority, Feb. 6, 2004], 4).
