With all due sincere respect, I do not see “debate” going on here.
I see the indictment of a people based on their religious beliefs. One of the tenants this country was founded on, one of the things that makes is unique, special and great is being thrown out the window in the name of some people’s “OPINION AND INTERPRETATION” of their scripture.
If that is pointed at me, I don't do that.
With all due sincere respect, I do not see “debate” going on here.
I see the indictment of a people based on their religious beliefs.
If anyone is doing that, they are out of line IMO
The indictment is of the false belief system that is the LDS, not the individuals.
Mayflower Compact
In the name of God, Amen.
We, whose names are underwritten, the loyal subjects of our dread Sovereign Lord King James, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King, defender of the Faith, etc.
Having undertaken, for the Glory of God, and advancements of the Christian faith and honor of our King and Country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the Northern parts of Virginia, do by these presents, solemnly and mutually, in the presence of God, and one another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic; for our better ordering, and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid; and by virtue hereof to enact, constitute, and frame, such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions, and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the colony; unto which we promise all due submission and obedience.
In witness whereof we have hereunto subscribed our names at Cape Cod the 11th of November, in the year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord King James, of England, France, and Ireland, the eighteenth, and of Scotland the fifty-fourth, 1620.