General Conference

[_TrashcanMan79]

My stream was choppy when Packer was carrying on. Did I miss anything wonderful or marvelous?

My understanding is that he was talking about the evils of homosexuality. But I didn't hear the talk either. Our cable is down.

Did anyone else hear the talk?

Here you go: Mormon apostle Packer warns against ‘tolerance trap’

Typical Packer from what I can tell.

[_DarkHelmet]

Here you go: Mormon apostle Packer warns against ‘tolerance trap’

Typical Packer from what I can tell.

"Tolerance is a virtue, but, like all virtues, when exaggerated it transforms itself into a vice," said the 88-year-old Packer, speaking from his seat rather than from the pulpit. "We need to be careful of the ‘tolerance trap’ so that we are not swallowed up in it."

Lots of marketing ideas for this talk. T-shirts that say "Don't get swallowed by the tolerance trap" Books titled "Wo be unto he who exaggerates his tolerance." A TV series called "Provo Vice" about vice cops who investigate exaggerated acts of tolerance.

[_sock puppet]

Ballard dropping a Cleveland Steamer on the whole "Ordain Women" thing.

Really? Quotes?

Another regurgitation of "priesthood is to men as procreative power is to women" with an increased emphasis (or so it seemed to me) on "and this is according to divine design."

Authority to use Elohim's power is reserved only for those with penises. The logic escapes me, but there you have it.

[_sock puppet]

Here you go: Mormon apostle Packer warns against ‘tolerance trap’

Typical Packer from what I can tell.

"Tolerance is a virtue, but, like all virtues, when exaggerated it transforms itself into a vice," said the 88-year-old Packer, speaking from his seat rather than from the pulpit. "We need to be careful of the ‘tolerance trap’ so that we are not swallowed up in it."

Lots of marketing ideas for this talk. T-shirts that say "Don't get swallowed by the tolerance trap" Books titled "Wo be unto he who exaggerates his tolerance." A TV series called "Provo Vice" about vice cops who investigate exaggerated acts of tolerance.

How about a t-shirt with the SLC temple logo large, background to "We ain't tolerant"

[Guest]

My my. What a bunch of sour doom and gloomers. You make Eeyore sound like the poster boy for Prozac.

[_DarkHelmet]

Jean Stevens makes Mormon history — with a prayer | The Salt Lake Tribune

The Mormon church has moved into the 1970s. I laugh at people who think the church will never accept gay marriage. They embraced monogamous marriage a couple hundred years after the rest of western civilization. The finally admitted blacks were not sub human a few decades late, and now they allow women to pray in conference a few decades too late. They will get the memo late, just like with everything else, but they will eventually join the rest of civilization on gay marriage.

[_Equality]

marriage between a man and a woman is the authorized channel through which premortal spirits enter mortality. Complete sexual abstinence before marriage and total fidelity within marriage protect the sanctity of this sacred channel

That's right, ladies. Protect the sanctity of your "sacred channel."

[_The Dude]

marriage between a man and a woman is the authorized channel through which premortal spirits enter mortality. Complete sexual abstinence before marriage and total fidelity within marriage protect the sanctity of this sacred channel

That's right, ladies. Protect the sanctity of your "sacred channel."

Unsacred channeling can lead to unwelcome Thetans being co-channeled during spirit mortalization. You don't want that to happen, do you? Those Thetans are real bastards. ;)

[_sock puppet]

marriage between a man and a woman is the authorized channel through which premortal spirits enter mortality. Complete sexual abstinence before marriage and total fidelity within marriage protect the sanctity of this sacred channel

That's right, ladies. Protect the sanctity of your "sacred channel."

Wow, it's a seance: channeling Elohim! Every woman a Mary!

[_keithb]

Ballard dropping a Cleveland Steamer on the whole "Ordain Women" thing.

Really? Quotes?

Another regurgitation of "priesthood is to men as procreative power is to women" with an increased emphasis (or so it seemed to me) on "and this is according to divine design."

Authority to use Elohim's power is reserved only for those with penises. The logic escapes me, but there you have it.

Having a penis is an eternal trait, Sock. Elohim's penis was flapping in the breeze somewhere for eons before the universe was created -- that, and his holy and eternal ball sack.