Mormon Messages - "I know what I want you to be"

[_KevinSim]

I'm told by people around here that only one of those two is a real Mormon. The other one is a "tare" waiting to be burned at the last.

Those people are wrong. Romney is not a tare.

[_Stormy Waters]

God, as taught by the LDS Church, does ask "for our very lives," and does call "for sacrificial love."

The point is not whether or not the criticism is true it's simply that if the criticism was leveled at Mormonism they would try to label it as anti-Mormonism.

[_Stormy Waters]

I think this gives a pretty good insight into the way that the church views people. They know what they want you to be.

Stormy Waters, is there something wrong with one wanting to be who God wants that one to be?

The problem I see if the idea that people can be pruned to try to shape them into the people that the church wants them to be. For example taking Gay people and trying to prune them into straight people. Taking young people and pushing them to get married quickly. Taking young women, and encouraging them to have children before finishing their education. It's about taking people and trying to force them into a mold or a certain lifestyle. My problem obviously is that I don't think God has anything to do with it. It's about the church pushing people to do what is best for the organization.