Posted on 02/21/2006 10:02:21 AM PST by Colofornian
So asking for tenure is definitely out.
Bring 'em young.
Auditioning for his newest wife?
Get the Lysol.
I've read this statement on every thread about Mormonism ever posted on Free Republic. Most of them are. It's those that aren't we have to watch out for!
Being Mormon doesn't automatically make you a good person any more than being Republican does.
Unfortunately, you're correct. We always hope that every member will grow to be more like Christ, but anyone can fall.
How very tragic and sad for everyone involved.
According to who?... not the NEA.
The guy is a pig but they better get some sense into this girls head soon
Indeed, in the olden days, Brigham Young did "Bring 'em young"--as did Joseph Smith. They, at least, didn't ambush the innocence of such teens by assuming a side-door route (a video camera). They walked directly through the front door of marriage, gaining family consent. [Then again, even current LDS don't consider polygamy a front-door route; the point is, they didn't sneak into the presence of these young teens even if the polygamy rouse was a sneaky doctrine].
45-year-old Brigham married 16-year-old Lucy Bigelow in 1847; that was three years after he married 15-year-old Clarissa Clara Decker. (To see the ages of Brigham's wives, go here: http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/search/frameset_search.asp?PAGE=ancestorsearchresults.asp).
That doesn't beat Joseph Smith's record of marrying a 14-year-old in May, 1843 (Helen Mar Kimball). http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/search/frameset_search.asp?PAGE=ancestorsearchresults.asp
That is odd. Steve Young(QB) is Brighams great great grandson. I heard Steve liked them young to.
Only took three posts...
The underlying assumption we all make is that anybody of any religious stripe is good --or has the potential for exaltation into the "good stratosphere" based upon their measure of goodness. Jesus did not share this presumption: "'Why do you call me good?' Jesus answered. 'No one is good--except God alone.'" (Mark 10:18).
Jesus levels the playing field before the cross by undercutting any spiritual pride that presumes we don't Him as our great physician ("It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick...For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners."--Mt 9:12) Jesus is for the person who understands the cancerous diagnosis of sin.
We're all spiritually unhealthy and depraved [depraved doesn't mean being as bad as we can be; it's just no part of our being is untouched by sin]. Yet that doesn't pre-empt people from accomplishing good works.
Some folks do good works and give the credit for those works to God the Holy Spirit working through them; some folks do outwardly good works and assume the credit for themselves, stealing God's glory. Theft of God's glory thereby defeats any act otherwise qualifying itself as "good."
As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: (KJV)
The 63-year-old man is being investigated
Why the investigation=resignation?
The same goes for all religions. Claiming to be of one religion or another doesn't automatically make anyone perfect. Every mortal is susceptible to temptation.
A 63-year-old assistant professor?
63-y.o. assistant professors unveil a defensive gatekeeper mentality. Can't have rambuctious whipper-snappers sticking their noses in places that defaces the rep of the church. History, in part, is for P.R. purposes to defend the status quo, not for letting truth fall where it may.
That's why historical docs in the archives of the church are under greater raps than ever...see (ex-BYU prof) Quinn's writings & what he's revealed about historical queries into church writings of gen authorites and the ensuing crackdown of access to such materials.
Only the Lord knows what in each of our hearts and minds!
To mock is careless you might attract something you wished you never tempted!
Some get gratification through sex, some by eating, hording too much, and some by tearing others down!
Pick your poison!
He who is without sin cast the first stone as the Savior would say!
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