Church Of LDS Will Now Allow Children Of LGBT Couples

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04 Apr 2019, 3:42 pm

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Church Of Latter-Day Saints Drops Anti-LGBT Policy; Will Now Allow Childern Of LGBT Mormon Couples To Be Baptized

https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/04/us/mormon-lgbt-policy/index.html

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04 Apr 2019, 10:40 pm

Something tells me they didn't purely make this change purely out of the goodness of their hearts.

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06 Apr 2019, 11:45 am

RetroGamer87 wrote:

Something tells me they didn't purely make this change purely out of the goodness of their hearts.

How so?

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06 Apr 2019, 1:47 pm

Oh well isn't that precious...

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06 Apr 2019, 1:56 pm

Well, bless their hearts, as they often say in the South -- which means exactly the opposite.

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07 Apr 2019, 5:42 am

Tim_Tex wrote:

RetroGamer87 wrote:

Something tells me they didn't purely make this change purely out of the goodness of their hearts.

How so?

Based their past actions. They often change their ways when they're forced to.

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08 Apr 2019, 11:27 am

They’re actually one of the more steady-minded religious sects.

They have their weird ways—but who doesn’t?

They don’t pound their dogma into you.

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08 Apr 2019, 3:48 pm

It took me by surprise, considering how set in their ways the LDS is.

I have been a Lutheran for 17 years, after being an Evangelical for a brief period.

The main turning point in my theology is when the Episcopal Church (aka Anglican) ordained Gene Robinson, the first openly gay bishop. However, my view is that each denomination should decide for themselves on these issues.

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12 Apr 2019, 5:59 pm

That's very good news in my books. I think all churches should be doing this. It's 2019.

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12 Apr 2019, 7:43 pm

Wow! aren't they just such charitable folks, but still no entry for the parents of these kids...

Joseph Smith (the founder) believed that black people, gays and other "undesirables" were destined for hell and so forbidden from receiving membership into their "great" church

But lets not pick on the Mormons, I am pretty sure all fundamentalist christians think heaven will be identical to their church congregation and that everyone else is going to burn in hell.

"Fundis" whether christian or islamic should really be classified as cults

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12 Apr 2019, 10:24 pm

CockneyRebel wrote:

That's very good news in my books. I think all churches should be doing this. It's 2019.

I concur, but people who oppose will always be around.

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13 Apr 2019, 5:30 pm

RetroGamer87 wrote:

Something tells me they didn't purely make this change purely out of the goodness of their hearts.

Well..

obviously it is the result of new divine revelation that they just now got... straight from God.

Surely you are not suggesting that it is the result of...something other a new divine revelation!

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13 Apr 2019, 10:34 pm

kraftiekortie wrote:

They’re actually one of the more steady-minded religious sects.

They have their weird ways—but who doesn’t?

They don’t pound their dogma into you.

Long as you stay away from the FLDS or the more hardcore sects up around parts of Utah and Wyoming.

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14 Apr 2019, 5:09 am

Harpuia wrote:

kraftiekortie wrote:

They’re actually one of the more steady-minded religious sects.

They have their weird ways—but who doesn’t?

They don’t pound their dogma into you.

Long as you stay away from the FLDS or the more hardcore sects up around parts of Utah and Wyoming.

The most far out community (polygamy etc) is Colorado City in northern Arizona.

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18 Apr 2019, 9:31 am

naturalplastic wrote:

Harpuia wrote:

kraftiekortie wrote:

They’re actually one of the more steady-minded religious sects.

They have their weird ways—but who doesn’t?

They don’t pound their dogma into you.

Long as you stay away from the FLDS or the more hardcore sects up around parts of Utah and Wyoming.

The most far out community (polygamy etc) is Colorado City in northern Arizona.

Then there was the FLDS compound in Texas.

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