- Feb 22, 2004
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Seriously, are you that stupid. There are thousands of children in LGBT homes connected by family to the church. What area of non-reality do you live.That person understands the principles far better than you, I suspect.I can image an active LDS member writing,
"All children are born perfect. They should be welcome in almost any setting, particularly in a church that claims to be of God. All children, all babies, with no exceptions.
That my chosen faith proclaimed otherwise last Thursday is sad. This has hurt many people, particularly those who are gay, or have gay family members. I am so sorry for this hurt.
When you piss off those of us who would be your friends, who put our butts in the pews or who stand and conduct, who give our funds, you have gone too far.
All babies, all children, are welcome in any church or organization that I might choose to attend. All babies. No exceptions."
That person would be completely ignorant of the scriptures then. There was a time that the Lord commanded His servants not to go to the gentiles. The gospel was withheld from the Israelites in favor of the law of Moses. These restrictions did not occur during childhood but for all their mortal lives.
You are complaining about what happens now but completely miss the fact that the Lord has.view of the long game. He knows the way to direct His work in the way that will bring to pass the immortality and eternal life for the most people possible over all of time.
He has people wait on His timing to receive blessings. I'm sure as I am I would do things differently. But that's because I don't the end from the beginning.
And I think you should remember that our actions do effect others. Particularly our children. Maybe if we were wiser with our own actions they could have greater blessings.
Your fallacy of false equivalency of missionary work flops immediately. We are talking about thousands of children, some who go to the LDS church, who are already intimately connected to the church.
You want children to be denied the blessings of your church, then in order to be baptized, to disavow publicly their parents.
You are as bad as Jehovah Witnesses in this area.
For shame.
There are not thousands of children of same sex couples in the Church. Seriously do you listen to yourself?
Truly contact the JWs. You will find a set as weird as you on being dedicated to breaking up families.
Let's get it on record. You want children to disavow their parents?
How does stating gay marriage is wrong disavow parents? Seriously what do you think is so wrong about expecting people to acknowledge the teachings of the Church you are joining. We ask people to not smoke or drink as well, are we somehow asking people to disavow their alcoholic or smoking parents when we ask them to acknowledge that they aren't supposed to drink or smoke?
Why is acknowledging sin as sin so difficult? Seriously it's not like you don't know what they are when you are taught. Why would you even want to join if you don't want to accept and live with the teachings?
And why is it bad for children to wait until they are old enough to accept that and not be living in homes with such conflict?
What exactly do you think we should be doing? Actively proselytizing the children and creating an inherent conflict in the home? Why would we do that when we won't even baptize any minor with parents opposing it?
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