Funny, I’ve been LDS for 52 years and the only thing I remember ever getting Churchwide council was to support defense of mairrage!
So in your world ... if the LDS DOMA, then it must be bad?
Isn’t that how your standard logic Colofornian?, High Priestess of the Non-Denomination Inquisition.
Where were you in 1978 then when Lds changed its tune churchwide on accepting blacks into the priesthood? My math tells me that was 34 3/4 years ago.
* So, Mormon hierarchy excluded blacks -- and then late in the 20th century not
(And you said the above as if all Churchwide councils were uttered in your lifetime)
* Mormons forced communism upon its people -- and then not (United Order)
* Adhered to theocracies under its first two "prophets" -- and then slowly drew back
* Said polygamy was a condition of the highest degree of glory -- and then not
* POLITICALLY Encouraged its Utah Territory voters to be Democrats -- and then told whole groups of people wholesale to "balance it out" as Republicans as statehood approached
On this last point, here's the source:
"In order to gain the senate’s approval for statehood, Utah was required to “normalize its political allegiances.” The Church disbanded the Mormon People’s Party but feared that a mass Mormon migration to the Democratic Party would displease Republican senators. Church leaders sent Apostle John Henry Smith to visit LDS congregations. It was possible to be a faithful Mormon and a Republican, he explained to the amazement of many LDS faithful. In 1893, the Church even asked some specific families to become Republicans, a move that would be unimaginable today".
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So there ya go. The Mormon church is such a cult that it could simply send Lds "apostle" John Henry Smith around to Mormon stakehouses and make the announcement that "some of you need to become Democrats, and some of you need to become Republicans" ... and "presto!" 'Tis done!
“Funny, I’ve been trapped in the LDS cult for 52 years and the only thing I remember ever getting Churchwide council was to support defense of mairrage!”
Says it all... I wish better for you.
Defense of marriage - polygamy.
Do you 'remember' this??
"Now if any of you will deny the plurality of wives, and continue to do so, I promise that you will be damned;
and I will go still further and say, take this revelation, or any other revelation that the Lord has given,
and deny it in your feelings, and I promise that you will be damned.
Brigham Young - JoD 3:266 (July 14, 1855)