Hally McIlrath wrote:beastie wrote:I think BY taught that murder, adultery, stealing, marrying a black person, and apostatizing were the sins worthy of blood atonement. So if a gay person was married and had sex with someone of the same sex, that appears to be as close as one can get.
It seems like Gaz is trying, attempting, vainly squeeeeezing homosexuality into the realm of murder, so that it can fall under the vision of a Millennium filled with kittens and butterflies and little lambs and throat slashing. But I don't know how one can arbitrarily say one thing is really another. Does that fall under the "it means this because I say it means this" personal revelatory category, or what?
It simply means that Gaz is flat-out wrong from a doctrinal perspective on this issue. He has allowed his own personal biases cloud his judgment.
Gaz, you know I like you, but you are way off base on this one. Blood atonement was a whacked out idea of Brigham Young's that should have never taken place. The End.
Also, as far as BY is concerned regarding sins that were deserving of blood atonement, I believe that covenant breaking was mentioned. Since homosexuality would fall under "covenant breaking", I think that is where Gaz is getting this basis from.