Or so a prominent Mormon has found out. Boyd Packer is President of LDS Church’s Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. He recently said that homosexuality is not inborn -- arousing a storm of protest. So the Mormon church is distancing itself from his words.
"The Mormon Church is trying to perform some sleight of hand, and hoping no one notices. On their online version of Boyd K. Packer’s hate-speech, they’ve changed some of the most critical words -– possibly in response to the national outrage against them.
Last Sunday during Packer’s sermon, he made the preposterous claim that homosexuality was not born of inbred “tendencies.”
But ‘Lo and behold,’ in the Church’s online text version of the same speech, the word “tendencies” was changed to “temptations.”
The initial words spoken by Packer said, “Some suppose that they were pre-set and cannot overcome what they feel are inborn tendencies toward the impure and unnatural. Not so! Why would our Heavenly Father do that to anyone? Remember he is our father.”
The new text reads: “Some suppose that they were preset and cannot overcome what they feel are inborn temptations toward the impure and unnatural. Not so! Remember, God is our Heavenly Father.”
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If you say that IQ, laziness, tendency to crime or a whole host of other things is genetically inherited, Leftists will always furiously deny it. Homosexuality is the the lone exception. How convenient! How odd!
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Who cares what opinions Mormons have on any subject, which hopefully don't find their way into law affecting everyone.
Most aspects of temperament and proclivities/disposition have at least some genetic component - (obviously), including IQ, laziness, etc.
If homosexuality is so "correct" then how come so many homosexuals continue to hide their homosexuality? And don't say "it's because society still doesn't approve" because that's just BS. Homosexuals KNOW they are in the wrong, and that's why they hide.
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AIDS, the gift that keeps on giving.
If Joy Baher and Woopie Goldberg hear about this on the "View" they'll haul their fat asses right off stage!
Well done Anon. 2:13 - religious bigotry makes the first comment on a site dedicated to the First Amendment.
In answer to your question - several million mormons at least one would presume.
8:20 PM - Disagreeing with some religious views is not bigotry and regarding their opinions as irrelevant to most non-mormons is also not bigotry either. Are you a bigot for disagreeing with me? Do I not have First Amendment rights to an opinion even if you mis-represent it as "bigotry"? Mormons have many views which could be regarded as bigotry by your definition too. What does Mormon orthodoxy think of Catholics, blacks, homosexuals, those who like to drink alcohol or even coffee, etc.?
"Several million Mormons" did indeed sway law in California by applying their immense financial clout to influence the outcome of the "gay marriage" proposals - not a truly democratic outcome - but what is democracy in practice but power struggles where financial backing counts most!
Seems okay to be bigoted against gays but not against mormons - hmmm
Since all your collected invisible friends have about as much use as anything else based on mythology a couple thousand years old, who cares what they think? I don't believe in any of them and would prefer if your biased and useless rules would get the hell outta my legal system. Those that chose to let make believe rule their lives fine, but when you make it part of the legal system don't be shocked when some of us get cranky about it.
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