D&c 134:9 - cougarguard.com — unofficial BYU Cougars / LDS sports, football, basketball forum and message board

Jeff Lebowski · 08-19-2008, 03:23 AM

Ran across this yesterday:

Quote:

9 We do not believe it just to mingle religious influence with civil government, whereby one religious society is fostered and another proscribed in its spiritual privileges, and the individual rights of its members, as citizens, denied.

What do you think? Any bearing on our Prop 9 debate?

il Padrino Ute · 08-19-2008, 03:25 AM

It would seem speaking out in favor of Prop 8 is contrary to what is in scripture. That's pretty clear to me.

SeattleUte · 08-19-2008, 03:26 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jeff Lebowski

Ran across this yesterday:

What do you think? Any bearing on our Prop 9 debate?

I think it's just a restatement of the Establishment Clause.

Levin · 08-19-2008, 04:22 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SeattleUte

I think it's just a restatement of the Establishment Clause.

I agree with SU; it's a broad principle that doesn't really have much to say about whether the Church should or shouldn't support something like Proposition 8.

Indy Coug · 08-19-2008, 12:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jeff Lebowski

Ran across this yesterday:

What do you think? Any bearing on our Prop 9 debate?

You mean like using the government to propagate one church over others? Hardly the same thing as using moral beliefs that have a religious foundation to help mold laws which favor no one specific church over another.

08-19-2008, 03:25 AM	#2
il Padrino Ute Board Pinhead Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: In the basement of my house, Murray, Utah. Posts: 15,941	It would seem speaking out in favor of Prop 8 is contrary to what is in scripture. That's pretty clear to me. __________________ "The beauty of baseball is not having to explain it." - Chuck Shriver "This is now the joke that stupid people laugh at." - Christopher Hitchens on IQ jokes about GWB.