Posted on 11/12/2015 5:13:52 PM PST by marshmallow
Jackie Biskupski, the openly gay mayor-elect of Salt Lake City, isn't happy that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a group better known as the Mormons, clarified its stance on its membership requirements. Under policies disclosed last week, the LDS Church won't accept as members or missionaries children of same-sex couples. She now wants a meeting with church leaders to discuss "policies."
The move evoked echoes of Houston's Mayor Annise Parker who, in a two-year battle over a human rights bill, at one point subpoenaed sermons from local pastors opposed to the measure and sought a public vote. Court rulings put the Houston bill on the ballot, where it failed spectacularly in November 2015.
In explaining its decision, LDS Church leaders emphasized that the moves were to avoid confusion within families, where a same-sex couple's child might encounter LDS teachings that contradict a home situation.
"We don't want the child to have to deal with issues that might arise where the parents feel one way and the expectations of the church are very different," Elder D. Todd Christofferson of the LDS Church's Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, said in a statement released by the group.
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The mayor elect might want to review the following:
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
How did Salt Lake City—of all places—end up with a lesbo Mayor-elect?
Separation of church and state except when the state wants to butt in on a religion’s practices. Another example of liberalism’s mental disease.
This kind of government interference is the very thing that sent people fleeing to the New World. It’s also the point behind the First Amendment.
When can I get a ticket to Mars?
Salt Lake has a very high gay population, in part because in the Mormon view they don’t exist so the Mormons simply pretend they aren’t there.
Let me know when one of self important little queers make a demand of the muzzies.
You’ll see the smoke
Jackie Biskupski, the openly gay mayor-elect of Salt Lake City,
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Elected by Mormons...
I tried that approach way back. It used to work, but not anymore!!!!
too many liberal californians moved to salt lake city. in fact in utah, a non-mormom is a liberal dem.
if i were a mormon elder, i’d tell the dyke to go to hell.
SLC proper only encompasses a small (in square miles) urban area. If it included the whole county, Dems would have a harder time winning. The GOP hasn’t won the Mayor’s office since Jake Garn (later U.S. Senator) in 1971.
How in blue blazes did something like that happen in Salt Lake City?
And the second and most of the other eight.
The gay mayor-elect doesn't really want to sit down and talk with anybody, he just wants them to bend over for him.
the dems think mia love could be target. they think white mormons prefer a matheson/reid over black.
Low voter turnout in an odd year election.
She got in on her second try. I don’t see her losing again.
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