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LDS Church Criticized for Endorsing Boy Scouts' Proposal on Accepting Gay Members
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| 04/27/2013
| By Anugrah Kumar
Posted on 04/28/2013 6:35:14 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: Forward the Light Brigade
Na, Romney wouldn’t have forced you to be a mormon, the lds just wait till after you are dead and claim you are one.
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posted on
04/28/2013 10:38:24 AM PDT
by
svcw
(If you are dead when your heart stops, why aren't you alive when it starts.)
To: svxdave
Look, I don’t care if it’s Mormons, Catholics, Evangelicals, or Fundamentalist Atheists.
ANYBODY who doesnt’t see a problem with this is ...
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42
posted on
04/28/2013 10:41:44 AM PDT
by
Westbrook
(Children do not divide your love, they multiply it.)
To: teppe; elcid1970; arthurus; greyfoxx39; colorcountry; Colofornian; ejonesie22; Elsie; Godzilla; ...
The LDS Church is and has been on the front line for defending traditional marriage.
Snort!
The polygamy thing was 125 years ago, and had forced the church leadership/membership to go underground.
For behold, I reveal unto you a new and everlasting covenant; and if ye abide not that covenant, then are ye damned; for no one can reject this covenant and be permitted to enter into my glory Doctrine & Covenants Section 132
As I recall:
- 1843 D&C 132 became everlasting
- 1879 Reynolds v. United States, 89 U.S. 145, held that religious duty was not a suitable defense to deviant sexual practice
- 1882 the Edmunds Act declared polygamy a felony and drove LDS Church leadership into hiding
- 1887 the Edmunds-Tucker Act disincorporated the LDS Church and ordered their assets seized (especially their perpetual immigration fund, the foundation of the current day Mormon business empire)
- 1890 the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Edmunds-Tucker Act and the Mormon Church promply capitulated and adopted the Utah Manifesto officially making D&C 132 un-everlasting
- 1903-07 the Smoot Hearings Congressional hearings expose polygamy openly practiced in the Mormon Church // LDS Church was forced to drop missionary bounties for girl converts // several key Church leaders went into hiding
- 1904 the Second (this time we really mean it) Manifesto was adopted by the Mormon Church, and D&C 132 officially became still more un-everlasting
- 1923 the Utah Mormon Church finally stoped sealing plural marriages in temple ceremonies the FLDS broke away from the Utah Mormon Church
- 1945 the last polygamous LDS president, Heber J. Grant, died in office
- 1953 the last Utah state prosecution for polygamy took place
- 1998 the lost teens of Mormonism the LDS Church is caught running a boarding school for more than 450 surplus males dumped by polygamous Mormons part of their efforts to continue to cover up the principle
- 2004 Flora Jessop was forced into hiding under the threat of blood atonement for helping child brides escape from polygamous Mormon sexual bondage
Doesn't look to me like the
polygamy thing was over 125 years ago.
I havent heard of this recent claim [that the LDS has a proud history of bending in front of the wind] and am very dubious that it isnt more of the Anti-Mormon smear,inuendo,distort, and fabricate campaign.
Please also see directly above as you read this response.
I have heard that a big reason the National Boy Scout association has refused to allow Gay Leaders is because the LDS church has threatened to break off and form thier own program
That is an interesting statement that I have never heard from any Scouting official. Can you please provide references for that claim?
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posted on
04/28/2013 11:23:49 AM PDT
by
Zakeet
(If idiots could fly, Washington would be an airport)
To: Zakeet
Those prairie dresses - when you find a look that works, you stick with it!
;^)
44
posted on
04/28/2013 11:32:27 AM PDT
by
elcid1970
("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
To: SeekAndFind
Let the Boy Scouts whither
45
posted on
04/28/2013 11:44:39 AM PDT
by
GeronL
(http://asspos.blogspot.com)
To: Zakeet; Scoutmaster
I have heard that a big reason the National Boy Scout association has refused to allow Gay Leaders is because the LDS church has threatened to break off and form thier own program........
Zakeet Said: That is an interesting statement that I have never heard from any Scouting official. Can you please provide references for that claim?Possibly Scoutmaster knows the answer.
46
posted on
04/28/2013 11:50:24 AM PDT
by
Utah Binger
(Southern Utah where the world comes to see America)
To: trebb
Bishop Romney has always been for homosexualizing the Boy Scouts and the military.
47
posted on
04/28/2013 12:03:23 PM PDT
by
ansel12
(Civilization, Crusade against the Mohammedan Death Cult)
To: Zakeet
Them Women’s is Hotties!
Though they could come forward 100 years and at least wear Kulats...
48
posted on
04/28/2013 12:15:48 PM PDT
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
To: Zakeet
49
posted on
04/28/2013 12:16:00 PM PDT
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
To: Zakeet
50
posted on
04/28/2013 12:16:32 PM PDT
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
To: Vendome
51
posted on
04/28/2013 12:31:59 PM PDT
by
greyfoxx39
(Joseph Smith died in a gun battle. This is NOT a martyr's death!)
To: trebb; svxdave; svcw; All
They are like the pharisees who couldn't recognize Christ because they were so superior in every way that any ray of light needed to be doused that they might glow pure and perfect (Trebb said, in as "superioringly" of a tone that he/she could manage)
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posted on
04/28/2013 1:01:18 PM PDT
by
Colofornian
(Jude 3: "...I felt compelled to write and urge you to CONTEND for the faith that was once for all")
To: ElkGroveDan; All
This whole movement of trying to be kind to young people caught up in homosexual behavior is kind of like the parents who let their kids eat as much candy as they want, because they want it very badly and cry and throw tantrums. We say no, because its not good for them. When they have chicken pox we dont let them scratch because it will make things worse and scar them for life.And not only "kids," but let's not forget that 18-yo Eagle Scouts are part of the BSA program...hence...if this was all passed the BSA would have 18-yo-homosexual Scouts potentially "hitting on" males on outings...(along with 17 yo, 16 yo, etc.)
In fact, the BSA could have open-"out-of-the-closet-'advertised'" adult 18 yo homosexual Eagle Scouts interactively "mixing" with minors on outings...with full blessing of the BSA, the Mormon church, etc....!
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posted on
04/28/2013 1:08:58 PM PDT
by
Colofornian
(Jude 3: "...I felt compelled to write and urge you to CONTEND for the faith that was once for all")
To: SeekAndFind
Never forget this group was founded on the belief that polygamy was required for salvation, The Principle, which itself would lead to the destruction of Christian Marriage. Mitt’s father was born on an polygamous compound in Mexico.
Meanwhile the FL GOP is happily attacking Marriage in FL by saying its somehow morally objectionable for a husband to support his wife with Alimony because it gets in the way of the 2nd/3rd/Nth wife’s lifestyle.
And the Dems just want Bill and Ted to marry each other.
Saints Preserve Us !
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posted on
04/28/2013 2:51:25 PM PDT
by
wonkowasright
(Wonko from outside the asylum)
To: Vaquero; Zakeet; teppe
gay dogs, gay scouts......whats the difference...
To: Tennessee Nana
56
posted on
04/28/2013 5:42:26 PM PDT
by
Vaquero
(Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight,, he'll just kill you.)
To: SeekAndFind
Please remember that the LDS Church helped pass Prop 8 in CA and they took a lot of abuse for it, too. Why is the LDS Church now being singled out for a policy that is practiced by virtually all the other Christian denominations? Name one other religious denomination that refuses to admit gay scouts. Also, please remember that the Scouts continues to bar adult Scout leaders. I think they were stuck between a rock and a hard place. No matter what they did, there would be an avalanche of criticism.
Scout leaders have a huge responsibility to be fair and to keep all their scouts safe and sound. These leaders are great men, sacrificing time, blood, sweat and tears - and they are volunteers.
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posted on
04/29/2013 6:49:50 PM PDT
by
District13
(Keep the faith)
To: wonkowasright
“Never forget this group was founded on the belief that polygamy was required for salvation,. . .”
I see where this thread has deteriorated into a Mormon bashing exercise.
Meanwhile, I support the Boy Scouts of America, a great organization. And gay Scout leaders are still banned.
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posted on
04/29/2013 6:53:19 PM PDT
by
District13
(Keep the faith)
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