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Mormon aid to Prop. 8 investigated (Gestapo)
SFGate ^ | 11/24/08 | na

Posted on 11/24/2008 6:48:48 PM PST by Drango

California officials are planning to investigate whether the Mormon church gave an accurate accounting of its role in the campaign that succeeded in getting a same-sex marriage ban approved in the state.

The action by the California Fair Political Practices Commission came in response to a complaint filed two weeks ago by a gay rights activist. Fred Karger, founder of Californians Against Hate, accuses the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints of failing to report the value of the work it did to support Proposition 8. Roman Porter, the agency's executive director, said Monday that the decision to open an investigation does not mean staff members have determined there was any wrongdoing, only that Karger's complaint merits further inquiry.

A representative from the Salt Lake City-based church could not be reached for comment.

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To: SENTINEL
They are not volunteers, they are "Psychological slaves", very much like those in the FLDS.

"They" who? LDS members?

How are "they" "slaves"? Because we teach and practice that choices have consequences? Are you claiming that we don't permit our members to leave? What, exactly?

Given the very well documented, unchristian and abhorrent "marriage" practices taught and practiced by Joe Smith and Brigham Young, including teaching that Jesus was a Polygamist and father of many children, you mormons simply will not be allowed to usurp position as "Christian Champions of the Family".

This kind of silly accusation has been leveled at us and answered literally thousands of times, since the time of Joseph Smith, so I won't waste my time on it.

You better read your "Journal of Discourses", and "History of the Church" before you respond accusing in disbelief.

Yeah, you're right. I'm sure you're better educated on my own Church than I am. Say, could you teach my Sunday School class this week too?

The media trashes you guys...

Umm... Where is the media "trashing" us? I thought this thread was about the Gay Rights folks protesting the Church.

...because FLDS and LDS founders Joseph Smith and Brigham Young...

Ooops! Joseph Smith and Brigham Young had nothing at all to do with the FLDS. But, I'm sure you knew that, being an expert on the subject and all.

...did what they did and said what they said, and now you are picking a fight with the enemies of Christianity and then hiding behind us claiming victim status and asking us for protection.

So, LDS support for Proposition 8 is "picking a fight with the enemies of Christianity"? Isn't that what we're supposed to do?

How are we "hiding behind" you? When and where have we ever asked for your protection?

As far as "victim status", it seems that the facts speak for themselves. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has certainly not been the only target of this Gay Rights protest crap, and our hearts go out to all those who have suffered from it.

141 posted on 11/26/2008 10:02:44 AM PST by TChris (So many useful idiots...)
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To: fproy2222
How about you also really study this Church's teaching and report back as to why what you say is wrong.

Been there; done that; got the T-shirt; can't respond to you in THIS thread, but you feel free to keep teasing the dog.

142 posted on 11/26/2008 11:01:37 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: TChris
All your ping list are belong to us.

Gloating????

143 posted on 11/26/2008 11:04:17 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: svcw
Wow, it is truly amazing that the ldsers have such power to know what people might say not what they actually said.

Just quit whining and move on. This is embarrassing.

144 posted on 11/26/2008 11:08:11 AM PST by P-Marlowe (LPFOKETT GAHCOEEP-w/o*)
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To: TChris
"Are you claiming that we don't permit our members to leave? "

Actually I have a letter in my possession where one Stake President Christopher Rock of an Anchorage Alaska stake told me that I do not have authority to resign my daughters from the church because they are over the age of 8 years old. He asserts that the right of the church to retain my 10 and 12 year old daughters exceeds my right as a father to resign them. Since then I have have had 4 visits to my house from mormons asking to see my girls. I have the proof. this will likely wind up in the courts. i suppose you will brush this off as "consequences" as well.

"This kind of silly accusation has been leveled at us and answered literally thousands of times, since the time of Joseph Smith, so I won't waste my time on it."

Apostle Orson Hyde:“I discover that some of the Eastern papers represent me as a great blasphemer, because I said, in my lecture on Marriage, at our last Conference, that JESUS CHRIST WAS MARRIED at Cana of Galilee, THAT MARY, MARTHA, AND OTHERS WERE HIS WIVES, AND THAT HE BEGAT CHILDREN.(Journal of Discourses, Vol. 2, page 210)

Brigham Young, answering critics who claimed polygamy as a relic of barbarism:“Yes, one of the relics of Adam, of Enoch, of Noah, of Abraham, of Isaac, of Jacob, of Moses, David, Solomon, the Prophets, OF JESUS, AND HIS APOSTLES.” (Journal of Discourses, Vol. 11, page 328)

Brigham Young:“The Scripture says that He, the LORD, came walking in the Temple, with HIS TRAIN; I do not now who they were, unless HIS WIVES AND CHILDREN;...” (Journal of Discourses, Vol. 13, page 309)

The only thing silly here is that you are too afraid to check for yourself if these quotes are real. THEY ARE. I resigned my membership in just the last 90 days, because I was trying to prove a Christian wrong only to find it was the TRUTH, as recorded in THE LDS CHURCHES OWN BOOKS ! You people are so brainwashed you won't even prepare a proper defense....Open your eyes ! The Gay lobby and Liberal media can and will hit you on this ! THIS IS A PROP 8 ISSUE, WE CHRISTIANS ARE NOT GOING TO DEFEND THESE ACTIONS AND TEACHINGS, RELEVANT TO THE MARRIAGE ISSUE AT HAND !

"I'm sure you're better educated on my own Church than I am. Say, could you teach my Sunday School class this week too?

I am. I am a direct descendant of Martin Harris. I grew up in the church in Utah. I served faithfully until the age of 37 in numerous callings including SUNDAY SCHOOL TEACHER, and BISHOPRIC MEMBER. I was FAITHFULLY trying to disprove quotes like the ones I just gave you when i found they were true, and I had been lied to my whole life.

" Joseph Smith and Brigham Young had nothing at all to do with the FLDS."

Joseph Smith wrote the FLDS Book of Mormon. Joseph Smith and Brigham Young developed the FLDS version of Polygamy and psychological brainwashing and control techniques. The truth is the FLDS are much less ashamed and more honest about Joseph Smith and Brigham young than the LDS.

This stigma is the mormons to deal with, not we Christians. We wouldn't ask for help from the klan because their baggage will be used against us, and we don't accept your help either, ESPECIALLY THIS TOPIC WITH YOUR HISTORY.

Prop 8 is not about Mormons, it is about gay marriage.

145 posted on 11/26/2008 11:34:52 AM PST by SENTINEL (SGT USMC COMBAT VET.)
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To: metmom

Sorry about that, I think I accidentally pinged the Huck list.


146 posted on 11/26/2008 1:02:13 PM PST by Eric Blair 2084 (Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms shouldn't be a federal agency...it should be a convenience store.)
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To: ansel12

See above. Try copying and pasting from jibberish written in HTML sometime.

It’s not that easy.

Just an honest mistake. Don’t taze me bro.


147 posted on 11/26/2008 1:03:58 PM PST by Eric Blair 2084 (Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms shouldn't be a federal agency...it should be a convenience store.)
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To: Eric Blair 2084

That’s OK. When one holds more than one list, that can happen. I’ve done it myself when I’ve been in a FReeping FRenzy.


148 posted on 11/26/2008 1:04:01 PM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: metmom

If you read my homepage and imagine it in html, you can see how this can happen at 11 am after 4 beers and a long day.


149 posted on 11/26/2008 1:05:18 PM PST by Eric Blair 2084 (Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms shouldn't be a federal agency...it should be a convenience store.)
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To: P-Marlowe

What that ldsers are so powerful or that people are being deleted for what they might say?


150 posted on 11/26/2008 1:11:55 PM PST by svcw (Great selection of Christmas gift baskets: http://baskettastic.com/)
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To: P-Marlowe; svcw
Just quit whining and move on.
151 posted on 11/26/2008 2:27:14 PM PST by greyfoxx39 (Tagline on vacation during the grand experiment.)
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To: svcw
What that ldsers are so powerful or that people are being deleted for what they might say?

Just stop whining about it.

Who cares if the LDS'ers get special treatment? If the mods want to give them special treatment, then so be it. If they decide to give me special treatment, then so be it. They are the ones who are enforcing the wishes of the owner. Give them the respect they are due. If they want to head off a thread hijacking before it begins, and if that means pulling posts before they are read, then that is their prerogative.

Life is not fair. Get used to it.

For for this cause pay ye tribute also: for they are God's ministers, attending continually upon this very thing. Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honour to whom honour. (Romans 13:6-7 KJV)

152 posted on 11/26/2008 2:33:04 PM PST by P-Marlowe (LPFOKETT GAHCOEEP-w/o*)
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To: P-Marlowe

So you are not bothered that people are deleted before they post on what they might say, not what they said but what they might say.
Hey to each his own, I guess.


153 posted on 11/26/2008 2:51:30 PM PST by svcw (Great selection of Christmas gift baskets: http://baskettastic.com/)
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To: svcw
So you are not bothered that people are deleted before they post on what they might say, not what they said but what they might say.

Frankly many of us have earned the disrespect of the mods by disrespecting their authority. And whining and crying about every adverse decision by the mods is unseemly. No matter who does it.

154 posted on 11/26/2008 2:57:50 PM PST by P-Marlowe (LPFOKETT GAHCOEEP-w/o*)
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To: Elsie
Gloating????

Sure! You know how the Mormons are trying to take over the world and everything...

155 posted on 11/26/2008 11:07:39 PM PST by TChris (So many useful idiots...)
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To: IreneE; Colofornian; AuntB; lady lawyer; Elsie; greyfoxx39; Zakeet
I'd rather spend a week alone on a desert island with Barney Frank than a Mitt Romney. One is a sick sinner who knows not Christ, the other is a deluded Apostate who will suffer a worse fate in hell than even Frank, if he does not repent. Mormonism, with all its secret rites, Masonic talismans, strange marriage covenants, belief that every male gets his own 200 virgin wives at death and that Jesus and Satan are brothers while wearing their sacred Mormon underwear-- is a primitive religion not that far removed from Islam. We just get fooled by Mormons' smiling "American Family Values" face it smears on. This Prop 8 stuff is politics for Mormons -- it is not about the Gospel. Otherwise they would have an outreach to polygamists for their sin, and have pushed for a similar Prop 8 amendment in Utah about a hundred years ago.

That was one of the best posts I have read in months.

Thank you.


156 posted on 12/03/2008 3:46:05 PM PST by SkyPilot
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To: SkyPilot

The others have left the QUESTIONS hanging - gone to tilt at other windmills...


157 posted on 12/04/2008 9:28:35 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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