Overall, 53 percent of Americans say gay marriage should be legal, steady the past year but up from 36 percent in just 2006. Thirty-nine percent "strongly" support it, while 32 percent are strongly opposed - the first time strong sentiment has tilted positive. Six years ago, by contrast, strong views on the issue were negative by a broad 27-point margin.
Why isn't the world listening to the prophet? The brethren must feel like Lehi, warning the world but it isn't listening.
"We have taken up arms in defense of our liberty, our property, our wives, and our children; we are determined to preserve them, or die." - Captain Moroni - 'Address to the Inhabitants of Canada' 1775
Overall, 53 percent of Americans say gay marriage should be legal, steady the past year but up from 36 percent in just 2006. Thirty-nine percent "strongly" support it, while 32 percent are strongly opposed - the first time strong sentiment has tilted positive. Six years ago, by contrast, strong views on the issue were negative by a broad 27-point margin.
Why isn't the world listening to the prophet? The brethren must feel like Lehi, warning the world but it isn't listening.
Why aren't the Bretheren listening/ Give the world what it wants before it's too late and Mormonism has to hasten up some lame excuses for its reversal a la Polygamy and the Priesthood ban...
“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
Remember those arguments about the "will of the people" being overturned when prop 8 was? You won't hear those anymore now that the will of the people is against them.
Parley P. Pratt wrote:We must lie to support brother Joseph, it is our duty to do so.
I'm waiting for Packer or someone to say "Forget everything that I have said, president Monson or whomsoever has said in days past that is contrary to the present revelation. We spoke with a limited understanding and without the light and knowledge that now has come into the world."
Stormy Waters wrote:I'm waiting for Packer or someone to say "Forget everything that I have said, president Monson or whomsoever has said in days past that is contrary to the present revelation. We spoke with a limited understanding and without the light and knowledge that now has come into the world."
Yes, and people will talked about how the they wept for joy when they heard the new revlelation
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. - Galileo
Yeah, well, that's just, like, your opinion, man. - The Dude
Don't you know there ain't no devil, there's just god when he's drunk - Tom Waits
Stormy Waters wrote:I'm waiting for Packer or someone to say "Forget everything that I have said, president Monson or whomsoever has said in days past that is contrary to the present revelation. We spoke with a limited understanding and without the light and knowledge that now has come into the world."
Yes, and people will talked about how the they wept for joy when they heard the new revlelation
Considering how many Mormons today seem to have so much genuine revulsion for gay people, one wonders if the common "wept with joy" meme isn't older members engaging in a little creative amnesia.
Parley P. Pratt wrote:We must lie to support brother Joseph, it is our duty to do so.
Buffalo wrote: Considering how many Mormons today seem to have so much genuine revulsion for gay people, one wonders if the common "wept with joy" meme isn't older members engaging in a little creative amnesia.
Like Mitt Romney:
I can remember when, when I heard about the change being made. I was driving home from, I think, it was law school, but I was driving home, going through the Fresh Pond rotary in Cambridge, Massachusetts. I heard it on the radio, and I pulled over and, and literally wept.
"We don't know why the Church opposed same-sex marriage."
"The Church's opposition to same-sex marriage had nothing to do with sexual orientation or whom you want to marry."
"Some have attempted to explain the reason for opposing same-sex marriage but these attempts should be viewed as speculation and opinion, not doctrine. The Church is not bound by speculation or opinions given with limited understanding. We condemn all past homophobia by individuals both inside and outside the Church."
"Elder Jeffrey R. Holland called those speculations about the Church's opposition to same-sex marriage 'folklore' that 'must never be perpetuated,' according to the Deseret News. 'I think almost all of them were inadequate and/or wrong.'"