Hoops wrote:I'm sorry LDST and Jersey Girl.
I would like to say I'm never that callous, but I can't. Sometimes people are indescribably insensitive (I oughta know). All I can offer is to let your grace blot out their oafishness.
Hoops, thanks for your understanding. Certainly we've all made dumb mistakes and I've had to beg forgiveness. In this case, I can't let it slide - my kids were involved and my wife maligned. I have to point out that when MsJack's family was maligned, I stood up for her. I must do the same for my own family.
While the LDS can be some of the best people in the world, they can also say some of the stupidest things in the name of righteousness. Here are two examples I may have told before:
1. This past fall, a high councilor was giving a sacrament talk in my ward. He had said something int the past to offend two female congregants, and during his talk on forgiveness, mentioned them (not by name but enough people knew who they were) and said he had done everything he could to beg forgiveness, quoted a scripture, said he'd confessed his own faults, and now the two sisters were in sin for not forgiving him.
2. Last spring, my best friend was serving as music director. During the intermediate hymn, this giant of a man collapsed. My wife, a medical professional, literally jumped over the empty pew in front of us and was at his side within 3 seconds. She was there faster than his own wife, who was in the front pew, and faster than the bishopric, who were just rising out of their seats by the time she was there. My wife gave him medical attention, got him moved out of the chapel, gave him a full examination, and ensured he was fine. A couple of days later, she was out to dinner for a Relief Society event, with about 15-20 sisters in a restaurant, and talk turned to the event. Wanna know what was said? "Too bad Dr. R wasn't in church that day. Things would have been much better". My wife said she had the whole thing under control. "Yes, but it would have been better with Dr. R. It's good to have a doctor with the priesthood". In other words, good to have a man take control - never mind that there are other nurses in our ward. Never mind that my wife is trained in emergency care. Never mind that she's almost finished her Masters degree and will be licenses as a Nurse Practitioner this coming fall. Nope, she didn't have a penis.
It saddens me that LDS can't behave better. This time, I'm not letting it slide.
H.
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