Found a couple of them.
Posted on 03/20/2012 4:05:36 AM PDT by Colofornian
The press is pawing over Mitt Romney’s religion, and the candidate may just welcome this scrutiny. It...diverts attention from...Mitt Romney, flip-flopper.
Critics point shrilly to well over a dozen strong positions he has conveniently changed...Romney’s concessions...are not uncharacteristic of the church to which he belongs. Mormonism has its own history of political accommodation.
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Both the official church and Mormons...backed away from certain beliefs they had gone into the wilderness to secure: ...theocracy of melding secular government with religious hierarchy, a communal living order very like socialism and...plural marriage. These were bedrock doctrines, touchstones of Mormon orthodoxy that could not...be reconciled with...larger American culture, so without repudiating these teachings, Mormons simply gave them up.
...By the 1930s, under Mormon Prophet Heber J. Grant, an aging patriarch who...married his three wives when polygamy was still permitted, harsh punishments awaited any mainline Mormon who taught or claimed the church sanctioned any marriage other than that of one man to one woman. In the 1930s, he excommunicated members of the church in Short Creek, Arizona who refused to sign a loyalty pledge to the church and renounce plural marriage. This action provoked a schism and the formal beginning of the Mormon fundamentalist movement...
Among today’s mainline, church-going Mormons, polygamy is virtually never mentioned. A modern Sunday school manual based on the life and teachings of Joseph Smith, who declared plural marriage essential and who married at least 33 women, is fronted by a short biography that lists a single wedding and a single spouse. There is but a single mention of plural marriage anywhere in the manual’s 586 pages...
...many Mormons celebrated when in 1976 the Mormon prophet announced a revelation reversing a long-standing policy denying the priesthood to black members...If God wanted to change his mind, why fault Him for opportune timing?
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
It is 77° in central Indiana right now...
Found a couple of them.
“Inasmuch as laws have been enacted by Congress forbidding plural marriage...
I hereby declare my intention to submit to those laws...”
~ Wilford Woodruff, 4th LDS President”
Doctrinal caprice and inanity aside, I have to say that anyone who changes his ‘faith’ to accommodate a secular statute is rather pathetic and contemptible.
“Caesar commands that you shall burn incense before his image!”
“OK, whatever, centurion dude. Got a light?”
Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah
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