RE: Damned Mormons
November 10, 2015 at 5:58 pm
(This post was last modified: November 10, 2015 at 5:59 pm by Clueless Morgan.)
(November 10, 2015 at 4:25 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Some of the "stockholders" are getting upset.
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/11/mormons-...apostates/
Quote:Mormons plan mass resignations over ‘kick in the stomach’ decision to label gay members ‘apostates’
I sense a soon-to-be-forthcoming revision from planet Kolob.
Not necessarily. There's speculation that this is a sort of "cleaning the house" move - pear down the congregation to the true believers, the ones who are so deep in and so invested that they will rationalize anything in order to stay and let those liberal-minded jack-Mormons leave so that the purity of the church isn't spoiled by their lecherous presence... (Kinda like when Jim Jones moved the people's temple to Guyana - he didn't care that uncommitted members didn't come, he was interested in keeping a hold of the true believers...)
Even if that's not the case, the LDS church has such a deep and long-standing tradition of hostility toward the LGBT community that I have a hard time seeing them modifying this change to the handbook anytime soon. If/when it gets changed, it will be after a period of years when it has fallen off of most news outlets' radar. They've gotten themselves in a little pickle by having the change leaked rather than being able to quietly insert it into the handbook and implementing it on a case-by-case basis without anyone really finding out. If they change the policy now they'll look like hypocrites and they can't have that.
Teenaged X-Files obsession + Bermuda Triangle episode + Self-led school research project = Atheist.
