Tom Hanks' Mormon mea culpa

LaurieJan 25th, 2009 - 22:44:33

Not that it's gonna matter, but here it goes: I'm an active member of the LDS Church in good standing, but I also am completely for gay rights. I would like to also say that I am have many friends that are gay, that I completely love them with all my heart and have nothing but total respect for them.

It just gets me that people can't have the same common respect for one another - and this goes both ways. It blows my mind that, not 100 years ago, members of my own church we're rounded up and arrested for practicing polygamy (and I mean fully of age, consensual, 100% not of the creepy variety) - yet go bat guano crazy over this kind of thing. Ugh.

Can't we all just get along?!?!

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SP4: Because LaurieJan 25th, 2009 - 22:52:18

...churches that embrace a written philosophy may have something in them that is counter to what society may, or may not, agree with. Jefferson got it right, over 200 years ago: you should be free to worship as you please, but the state has no repsonsibility to institutionalize your beliefs as law. The problem with marriage is that it is not just a sacrament, but a legal state and as such, occurs outside of every faith. This makes it part of society and now those beliefs spill into the publiuc venue. All laws are based on some kind of morality, so best of luck as to who's will win. Nonetheless, I just love hearing libnazis gag at plural marriage while at the same time they embrace homosexuality.

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MormonJan 26th, 2009 - 07:34:18

I know someone who was excommunicated from the Mormon church for being gay. It was the best thing that ever happened to him and served to free his mind from ignorance to acceptance.

Public opinion of the Mormon church remains poor. However it is the organization itself that is to blame for this, since they are unable to reign in the more extremist sects that the public consistently hears about in the news, terms like 'polygamist, compound, child sexual abuse' and others grace the front page of the morning paper when speaking of Mormons.

Since there is an amount of brainwashing that goes on in heavily structured settings, the level of sheer ignorance remains significant in their congregation. Which is probably why organized religion still has nothing to do with them and considers them the black sheep of the lot.

As for Hanks reversal, it appears he is a bit thin-skinned after all.

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fightingleeFeb 4th, 2009 - 20:50:06

Mormon

Your own ignorance is astounding. The lds church does not promote ignorance in its congregation, and the lds church is not to blame for poor public opinion. Christ himself had a poor public opinion. Just because society does not like your belief, it does not mean it is your fault. Our society would crucify christ all over again if he were here, because he would still speak out against things the world does not want to hear. Don't get mad at the LDS church for supporting the bible and Christ's words. If you have a problem with Christ's teachings' take it up with him because the bible consistanlty speaks out against homosexuality.

No one is perfect, and no one should dislike homosexuals. The LDS church's stance was not that mormons should hate homosexuals, but that they should stand for what they believe in, and gay marriage does have implications that LDS members do not want and do not believe are in the best interest for society. And by the way, those groups that practice the things you mentioned broke from the LDS church more than a hundred years ago because the LDS church would not accept what they do.

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