I haven't looked at the MAD thread yet and don't really intend to, but your points here, beastie, were spot on:
beastie wrote:This type of response reveals that LDS like you really do think homosexuality is a worse sin than anything else. After all, this country is already riddled with fornication, adultery, pornography, child abuse, divorce, and the oppression of the poor and powerless, yet it would be gay marriage that would fulfill this scripture.
I can list off the top of my head, at least 10 cases of high profile child abuse cases that have been reported in the last, say, 2 weeks. Cases where a mother pushed her children off a bridge, a mother who smothered her child and buried him in playground sand, where a 3 year old was sexually assaulted in a 24 hour period by an adult male who picked her up near her home, the new case of a missing 5 year old whose mother was knowingly living with a registered sex offender (yeah, you read that right) and not long ago the 8 year old sexually assaulted (raped with a screw driver) and killed by a sunday school teacher who investigators now tie to two previous poisonings (one of a child), and the father (on PCP) who ATE his 4 year old child's eye out of his living skull.
None of these crimes perpetrated by gays. Not one.
I could go on, but why bother? The religious community isn't responding to these high profile child abuse cases and that includes the LDS church.
The hetero:gay ratio itself guarantees that hetero's carry out the highest percentage of crimes in the country (world) and yet, there are people harping on gays for what? For the breakdown of society as we know it?
I've got news for y'all, society is breaking down around you and the sins are being perpetrated on the heads of our own children.
Where is the religious outcry for THAT? What about this "brothers keeper" business? Instead of nosing around in the lives of gays, how about keeping the children safe for starters?
Sorry if this comes off as a rant, it makes me so utterly angry.