gdemetz wrote:I have a gay friend in the church who is getting married (to a woman) in June. He is determined to keep striving to live the principles of the gospel. I admire him for that! Most people in his situation would just give up, become bitter toward the church, and constantly try to find fault with it in a vain and futile attempt to feel better about themselves by doing so.
I hope you'll be there for him when he gets divorced.
...and attempts suicide.
“We look to not only the spiritual but also the temporal, and we believe that a person who is impoverished temporally cannot blossom spiritually.” Keith McMullin - Counsellor in Presiding Bishopric
"One, two, three...let's go shopping!" Thomas S Monson - Prophet, Seer, Revelator
gdemetz wrote:I have a gay friend in the church who is getting married (to a woman) in June. He is determined to keep striving to live the principles of the gospel. I admire him for that! Most people in his situation would just give up, become bitter toward the church, and constantly try to find fault with it in a vain and futile attempt to feel better about themselves by doing so.
Buffalo wrote:I hope you'll be there for him when he gets divorced.
Drifting wrote:...and attempts suicide.
I'm more interested in what the guy's wife thinks than in what gdemetz thinks. Hey, gdemetz, have you asked her?
"And the human knew the source of life, the woman of him, and she conceived and bore Cain, and said, 'I have procreated a man with Yahweh.'" Gen. 4:1, interior quote translated by D. Bokovoy.
gdemetz wrote:I have a gay friend in the church who is getting married (to a woman) in June. He is determined to keep striving to live the principles of the gospel. I admire him for that! Most people in his situation would just give up, become bitter toward the church, and constantly try to find fault with it in a vain and futile attempt to feel better about themselves by doing so.
Twisted
I want to cry.
~Those who benefit from the status quo always attribute inequities to the choices of the underdog.~Ann Crittenden ~The Goddess is not separate from the world-She is the world and all things in it.~
gdemetz wrote:I have a gay friend in the church who is getting married (to a woman) in June. He is determined to keep striving to live the principles of the gospel. I admire him for that! Most people in his situation would just give up, become bitter toward the church, and constantly try to find fault with it in a vain and futile attempt to feel better about themselves by doing so.
I'm pretty certain the Church counsels against marriage as a method of attempting to cure Gayness.
“We look to not only the spiritual but also the temporal, and we believe that a person who is impoverished temporally cannot blossom spiritually.” Keith McMullin - Counsellor in Presiding Bishopric
"One, two, three...let's go shopping!" Thomas S Monson - Prophet, Seer, Revelator
gdemetz wrote:I don't know that they do, but apparently he feels that he is ready for that step.
You can see where that is headed...right...?
“We look to not only the spiritual but also the temporal, and we believe that a person who is impoverished temporally cannot blossom spiritually.” Keith McMullin - Counsellor in Presiding Bishopric
"One, two, three...let's go shopping!" Thomas S Monson - Prophet, Seer, Revelator
gdemetz wrote:I hope that it works out, but I have to admit that I have my concerns about that.
You are going to need to be a good friend at some point.
Good luck.
“We look to not only the spiritual but also the temporal, and we believe that a person who is impoverished temporally cannot blossom spiritually.” Keith McMullin - Counsellor in Presiding Bishopric
"One, two, three...let's go shopping!" Thomas S Monson - Prophet, Seer, Revelator
