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It's fourth hand information (or even more distant), but I heard that Eyring is the one who drafted/wrote/approved the BSA gay leader press release.
I mean, it doesn't really matter which apostle it was. It was at least one of them. The infants who will be refused an opportunity to receive a name and a blessing--they didn't violate any laws of chastity. My thinking is along the lines of Levin. This is firing a shot across the bow, hoping to prevent gay couples from attending Mormon services. First we make you feel unwelcome. If you attend, we will excommunicate you. If you insist on staying after that, just be aware that if you have progeny none of them will receive any blessings of the gospel while under your care as children. If all of this doesn't work, who knows what the next step will be. |
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Separating the wheat from the chaff? Discovering which virgins have oil in their lamps? The wedding feast?
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11-10-2015, 05:33 PM | #57 |
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Where were all the activists, the protest signs, the condemnation- when the church had this policy on the books for kids that are living with heterosexual unmarried parents? Where was the outcry for "civil rights" for an 8 year old? I guess the very few kids in THAT situation aren't up for political fodder?
The church made this policy because it doesn't want to get in the middle of families. But now that it extends to LGBT, even thought the church has made it clear on their stand about LGBT, only NOW they are robbing kids of their rights? |
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The Lord is merciful and won't come down on anyone who didn't really understand what they were doing or even those leaders who felt at the time that baptizing quickly was the way to go. The Lord's church has the authority to administer saving ordinances, but the Lord himself also recognizes that part of our purpose in this life is to try our best to figure things out sometimes the best we can and learn from our mistakes and correct and move on. That goes for non-members, regular members, and all the way up to the prophets and apostles. But I'm willing to be patient and don't have the need for every single policy and practice to be 100% perfect in order to believe the church is still true. And it's my weakness, but it's a littler harder for me to be as patient with members who are so quick to condemn other members and give them a dirty look for not wearing the right color shirt when passing the sacrament or using the wrong hand, or whatever other perceived weakness, including not believing things in the right way however we define it. That kind of nonsense is frequently all over cougarboard and sounds like kind of garbage within the church that the Book of Mormon comes down pretty hard against. Last edited by BlueK; 11-10-2015 at 05:49 PM. |
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