Yes. Let me provide a parallel example:
If...
...say, alcoholics...
...were brainwashed daily on the hour that orienting their very identity unto alcohol itself was "natural"...
...similar to the degree that homosexuals are told their lifestyle is "natural" -- where the media & the homosexual activists EVERY HOUR reinforce this notion that the anus was purposed for "pleasure" & such "relations" were to be rarely linked beyond any type of true relational commitment...
...then for these groups, as for Mormons & most other cultists, the "soft touch" will not offset that cultural drumbeat.
And for MOST Mormons, they are quite culturally insulated as yet another need to offset their daily reinforcement.
Tough love is therefore what is needed in all the above cases.
The battle for souls in a honorable battle, and one that is far more important than many realize.
Amen. For ANY so culturally reinforced with these alternative identities, be it homosexual or cultist, their souls are of tremendous value to our Creator who made them & desires for them to be re-created in Christ...
For Mormons, their burning bosoms need to be handed over to the LORD Jesus Christ, lock, stock, & feelings.
For homosexuals, what burns within them likewise was bought by Christ on the cross. Give it over. He experientially died for every lust, be it homosexual, heterosexual, or as temple Mormons do, lusting after godhood.
12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! 13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God...14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High. 15 Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit. (Prophet Isaiah, chapter 14)
Mormons think nothing of a being who says, "I will exalt my throne above the stars of God...I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High." They conflate such godhood-striving as "godliness" -- as if Lucifer was "godly."
All such lusting, whether it be for godhood, or mere hedonistic, that trash is Christ's! He was the Garbage Man on that cross. Let it go.
The call for Christians is tell "alternative identity" individuals to "let it go"...NOT for us as Christians to "let them be" hell-bound in such identities.
Begs for clarification...
So here goes ---
1–6, Exaltation is gained through the new and everlasting covenant; 7–14, The terms and conditions of that covenant are set forth; 15–20, Celestial marriage and a continuation of the family unit enable men to become gods; 21–25, The strait and narrow way leads to eternal lives; 26–27, The law is given relative to blasphemy against the Holy Ghost; 28–39, Promises of eternal increase and exaltation are made to prophets and Saints in all ages; 40–47, Joseph Smith is given the power to bind and seal on earth and in heaven; 48–50, The Lord seals upon him his exaltation; 51–57, Emma Smith is counseled to be faithful and true; 58–66, Laws governing the plurality of wives are set forth.
16Therefore, when they are out of the world they neither marry nor are given in amarriage; but are appointed angels in bheaven, which angels are ministering cservants, to minister for those who are worthy of a far more, and an exceeding, and an eternal weight of glory.
17For these angels did not abide my law; therefore, they cannot be enlarged, but remain separately and singly, without exaltation, in their saved condition, to all eternity; and from henceforth are not gods, but are aangels of God forever and ever.
18And again, verily I say unto you, if a man marry a wife, and make a covenant with her for time and for all eternity, if that acovenant is not by me or by my word, which is my law, and is not sealed by the Holy Spirit of promise, through him whom I have anointed and appointed unto this power, then it is not valid neither of force when they are out of the world, because they are not joined by me, saith the Lord, neither by my word; when they are out of the world it cannot be received there, because the angels and the gods are appointed there, by whom they cannot pass; they cannot, therefore, inherit my glory; for my house is a house of order, saith the Lord God.
19And again, verily I say unto you, if a man amarry a wife by my word, which is my law, and by the new and beverlasting covenant, and it is csealed unto them by the Holy Spirit of dpromise, by him who is anointed, unto whom I have appointed this power and the ekeys of this priesthood; and it shall be said unto them—Ye shall come forth in the first resurrection; and if it be after the first resurrection, in the next resurrection; and shall inherit fthrones, kingdoms, principalities, and powers, dominions, all heights and depths—then shall it be written in the Lamb’s gBook of Life, that he shall commit no hmurder whereby to shed innocent iblood, and if ye abide in my covenant, and commit no murder whereby to shed innocent blood, it shall be done unto them in all things whatsoever my servant hath put upon them, in time, and through all eternity; and shall be of full force when they are out of the world; and they shall pass by the angels, and the gods, which are set there, to their jexaltation and glory in all things, as hath been sealed upon their heads, which glory shall be a fulness and a continuation of the kseeds forever and ever.
20 Then shall they be gods, because they have no end; therefore shall they be from aeverlasting to everlasting, because they continue; then shall they be above all, because all things are subject unto them. Then shall they be bgods, because they have call power, and the angels are subject unto them.
21Verily, verily, I say unto you, except ye abide my alaw ye cannot attain to this glory.
22For astrait is the gate, and narrow the bway that leadeth unto the exaltation and continuation of the clives, and few there be that find it, because ye receive me not in the world neither do ye know me.
23But if ye receive me in the world, then shall ye know me, and shall receive your exaltation; that awhere I am ye shall be also.
24This is aeternal lives—to bknow the only wise and true God, and Jesus Christ, whom he hath csent. I am he. Receive ye, therefore, my law.
25aBroad is the gate, and wide the way that leadeth to the bdeaths; and many there are that go in thereat, because they creceive me not, neither do they abide in my law.