Betty Bowers on Bible-based marriage
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WHEN DOOMSDAY CULTS make a prediction that fails to happen, you’d think that most-ardent believers might emerge with their faith a bit shaken. It’s usually the opposite. They view the failure as a confirmation and emerge more convinced than ever. How do they pull off such a feat of reasoning? They begin with the assumption that they couldn’t have been wrong. If that is so, then they must find a way to view the failure as not a failure but as more of an unexpected development. Curiously, almost all cults default to one or more of the following “explanations”: |
1. We weren’t wrong; God in his infinite mercy has spared the earth a little while longer. 2. We weren’t wrong except for one tiny detail as to the timing. 3. We were right and it happened, just not in the way we anticipated. |
A natural or adopted child of a parent living in a same-gender relationship, whether the couple is married or cohabiting, may not receive a name and a blessing. A natural or adopted child of a parent living in a same-gender relationship, whether the couple is married or cohabiting, may be baptized and confirmed, ordained, or recommended for missionary service only as follows: A mission president or a stake president may request approval from the Office of the First Presidency to baptize and confirm, ordain, or recommend missionary service for a child of a parent who has lived or is living in a same-gender relationship when he is satisfied by personal interviews that both of the following requirements are met: 1. The child accepts and is committed to live the teachings and doctrine of the Church, and specifically disavows the practice of same-gender cohabitation and marriage. 2. The child is of legal age and does not live with a parent who has lived or currently lives in a same-gender cohabitation relationship or marriage. |
When a Disciplinary Council May Be Necessary ... includes homosexual relations (especially sexual cohabitation) ... When a Disciplinary Council is Mandatory ... As used here, apostasy refers to members who ... are in a same-gender marriage. |
“In some respects, the relationship between Latter-day Saint women and priesthood has remained remarkably constant since Joseph Smith’s day.” |
Hi Mom!Mormon Church: God Has a WifeIn the latest of a series of essays designed to take belated ownership of inconvenient issues as if they had always been out from under the rug, yesterday the Mormon church officially acknowledged that there is indeed a Mrs. God. The notion of God’s having a better half is something of a “yeah, so?” to anyone well acquainted with Mormonism. Mormons have been singing that there’s a mom in heaven in their musically interminable hymn “O My Father” since 1845. The doctrine of a Mrs. God follows from the church’s revelation on polygamy, which says that to attain god-status one must enter into “the new and everlasting covenant of marriage.” Ergo, on the not unreasonable assumption that God has attained god-status, we can infer that God has a wife, ergo, we have a heavenly mom. What’s more, God is most likely a polygamist. After all, the same revelation establishes that polygamy, too, is a requirement for god-status. Ergo you most likely have heavenly aunts. Oddly enough, the essay doesn’t bring that up. | We couldn’t find any renderings of Mrs. God, so here’s one of Ceres, who is just as real. |
GIVEN AS THIS blog is to sarcasm, there is nothing funny about an elderly person’s frailty. Which, we think, makes the story at hand something of a travesty. Regardless of whether one accepts Thomas S. Monson as a prophet, not even the coldest heart could have resisted experiencing a pang on seeing the 88-year-old Mormon church leader falter toward the end of his remarks at the church’s general conference last week. Touchingly, his counselor Dieter F. Uchtdorf, by comparison robust at 74, hovered discreetly behind at the ready to catch him if need be. This picture of pathos has been followed by farcical events. | Moment of pathos: Thomas S. Monson falters. For Standard Examiner article and video, click here. |
We couldn’t resist. | It is an equally easy thing for faith-promoting rumors to grow out of control. Years after Mormon church founder Joseph Smith’s death, a rumor began that Young had transfigured into Smith for a few moments during the ensuing, ugly succession contest. It wasn’t long before 101 people attested to the event in writing. No matter that at the time not one newspaper or personal journal entry mentioned it; the so-called Transfiguration of Brigham Young is long ensconced as a miracle in Mormon lore. It is more than possible that a continuing parade of parents will likewise elicit a vision of Monson’s angels from their own children. Soon, what should have remained an unremarkable scribble may well become equally ensconced. |
“I went to get dressed, and I pray about what I wear — I really do. I know I look stupid sometimes, but the last time God told me to wear a color was red, and what happened that day? The stock market crashed. | |
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