Posted on 07/08/2015 9:22:05 AM PDT by Colofornian
Mormons and LGBT people historically haven’t gotten along. The church has been active in efforts to end gay marriage, and even the Supreme Court’s most recent opinion hasn’t deterred them from fighting. So that’s why it came as a surprise to almost everyone that the historically anti-gay church just made its first donation to an LGBT cause. While the church still doesn’t approve of homosexuality, that didn’t stop them from making a recent donation to the Utah Pride Center, an organization that helps to serve homeless LGBTQ youth...
...The Mormon Church donated approximately $2,500 to help fund the Pride Center’s food pantry, which serves close to 40 homeless youth every week...
(Excerpt) Read more at magazine.good.is ...
Maybe they are naive. I don’t need $2,500 donation to see it though.
2.5 million would raise red flags
From an article,they were approached and asked to donate perishable food from the mormon storehouse as they can’t (the pride center) get that stuff from the Utah food bank.
It looks like the pride center gets other food from the Utah Food bank.
so if anybody donates there( ie other believers at the Utah Food Bank) that money trickles down to LGwhatevers anyway!
Suckers!
They didn’t just volunteer the money. They were approached for perishable food and they gave them a check, after I suspect, some debate . I guess they could have denied the request and made some others happy for a minute.
Scripture says ask, and you shall receive.
Amazing what He can give us when we apply that to our own lives.
Sometimes he even uses the ‘ungodly’ to teach us lessons.
#1...so you're defending cash donations made to the LGBT org?
If that's the case, how oft' have you contributed to LGBT orgs? (After all, isn't it the "will of God" to XYZ???) And if not, why not -- if it's the Mormon gods' wills?
I take it, then, that had the Sodom Gatekeeper Council had a "food pantry," you'd had been an active contributor?
#2 If it's the "will of God" to feed these people, why not do it yourself versus sanctioning the orgs that the Mormon church is contributing to?
What? The Mormon church has no mechanisms in place to directly feed the poor in downtown SLC? Really? After having been there that long?
Isn't what we complain about re: governmental bureaucracy is that they always create more layers than need be...vs. the direct approach?
And even then, if the Mormon church is going to choose the indirect approach, what? Are there no faith-based food pantries in SLC to work with? Really?
What next for the Mormon church?
Instead of working with faith-based pregnancy centers to get baby items into the hands of single moms who deliver their babies, will the Mormon church start giving cash donations to Planned Parenthood if posters like you determine is doing "the will of God" somewhere in the obscure recesses under their roofs?
Wow!
FR is going downhill fast when we get apologists in here defending cash donations to LGBT orgs!
Here, I'll ask you again:
If that's the case, how oft' have you contributed to LGBT orgs? (After all, isn't it the "will of God" to XYZ???) And if not, why not -- if it's the Mormon gods' wills?
And, in fact, if it's "the Mormon gods" wills to "feed these people" -- referencing the specific LGBT constituency...why haven't the Mormon church & Mormons been contributing to other LGBT orgs across the country/world who have food pantries?
Why only a one-time donation?
What? (You mean then that the Mormon church hasn't been "doing the will of God" re: "feeding these people" until the year 2015??? Really???)
(IF, that is, you're going to continue to place making cash donations to LGBT centers under the umbrella of "God's will")
Perhaps the Mormons donated in self defense, to discourage vandalism on their own nearby facilities.
Like Mormon tacquiyyah. Pretending to support, paying to be left alone.
Stormprepper seems to imply -- via parallel extension -- that if the SLC Planned Parenthood org set up a food pantry, & the Mormon Church contributed $2,500 cash to Planned Parenthood, that it would be not only defensible but would be "God's will."
If you & I -- during the height of KKK's heyday (20s thru early 60s) -- had been around...
...& if the KKK had operated food pantries...
...then IF we had other means & mechanisms of directly & indirectly feeding the poor...on our own...
...then, no, it would not have been "God's will" to give cash to the KKK in the name of "feeding the poor" when we could DIRECTLY do so.
Or, if we had been around during the Nazi era...and if we had other means & mechanisms of directly & indirectly feeding the poor of that day...on our own...
...then, no, it would not have been "God's will" to give cash to the Nazi party in the name of "feeding the poor" when we could DIRECTLY do so.
In fact, it would have been...
...poor stewardship to give $ to either the KKK OR the Nazi party in the name of anything...
...plus simultaneously, would have been openly sanctioning evil...
The problem with your scenario is that "feeding the poor" isn't an "all" or "nothing" enterprise.
It's not that if we don't "feed the poor" thru orgs like the KKK or the Nazi party that it won't get done.
OK, I answered your Q...#31...
Please answer my Qs from the previous posts...
It’s just good behavior. I know a lot of really rough people who are good Christians and I know a lot of really sweet Unitarians.
Do not continue to ask the same question over and over.
If, after asking a question 2 or three times, no answer is the answer.
(So because the Mormon church didn't feed these given constituents in previous years, I guess this Mormon response to this "commandment" was AWOL, eh?)
That is possible.
Business people have been shaken down so I suspect religious orgs are not immune.
I think we tend to forget we are not at war with flesh and blood but powers and principalities.. These homeless are lost and maybe hostile and may be considered an enemy in some respect to people.
But the power and principality behind their life choice is ruthless- but still on a chain.
I think in romans somewhere it talks of heaping coals of fire upon the enemy’s head by giving your enemy food and drink.
These homeless gay youth may hate the mormon church and consider them an enemy . I don’t know. But if they do, the Mormon Church is doing what it says to do to our ‘enemies’.
So is giving financial support to a LGBT center part of Joseph Smith’s prophecy on homosexual marriage? I’d look it up myself but requests for the citation have not been answered.
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