They Shoot Mormons, Don't They? Religious Bigotry, alive and well today

Saundra Duffy

[DelphiUser]

Have you ever been to a Mormon Wedding Reception (rhetorical question)?

They aren’t fun! That is unless you like punch and cookies and shaking hands. CC, I love to sit at a table, talk to friends and new acquaintances, and watch people while snacking. It’s heaven, at least for me. I get to watch an analyze people predict patterns of behavior learn new patterns weddings, when people have been under stress and now it’s the reception, people are more themselves than they are most any other time.

In College (outside Utah for the first two years), my nick name was DD (for Designated Driver) I would go to bars with some of my friends, I go the remote, free soda pop, and bar nuts, heaven. I got to watch people who didn’t care and were just going to be themselves. Plus I had friends who would not cross me for anything in the world, because they were not sure what they had told me when they were drunk (We always took one of their cars!)

[Utah Girl]

Color, was their not a recent action by the general authorities in SLC removing the Ladies Relief Society from the leadership of women and substituting men?

The priesthood presides over all the organizations and auxiliaries of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. That includes the Relief Society. However, each organization has its own presidency. So the Relief Society has a president and 2 counselors, just like the Primary organization, the Young Men and Young Women's organization, etc. In the last General Conference they released the Relief Society president and her 2 counselors (Bonnie D. Parkin, Kathleen H. Hughes, and Anne C. Pingree.) They called as the new Relief Society president Julie B. Beck (formerly the 1st counselor of the Young Women organization), Silvia H. Allred and Barbara Thompson (who is single.)

So, no, the women weren't ousted and the men didn't take over.

[greyfoxx39]

Verryyy Interesting! Please continue.

[Utah Girl]

Well, I’m not trying to proselytize. It’s hard to see one’s beliefs distorted. I really try not to question other people’s faith or beliefs, but I will stand up for my faith.

And I agree with you that the MSM is trying to divide the Republican party over religion. They must be pretty scared of Mitt Romney. They don’t say a thing about Harry Reid, and they didn’t say anything about Orrin Hatch when he ran for President in 2000 (of course Orrin didn’t have a chance to win...)

[greyfoxx39]

Was that a change for the Relief Society? I had the impression that they were more autonomous in times past. Again, I can’t quote a source for that, it’s been a while since I heard that.

[Utah Girl]

You think we pay tithing to get into heaven? Uh, no. It is a commandment and I pay tithing because I am obedient. Besides everything I have is because I am blessed and it is the Lord’s. I do not begrudge Him of 10%.

[MHGinTN]

And that adoption ad, wow, how can folks agree to an alternative to killing the alive unborn?

[FastCoyote]

Thank God on Kolob that you have admitted your total distrust of scientists, LDS or otherwise. Your grasp of reality is astounding and will amaze all who read in fine detail the wisdom you bring.

“”Is it because there has been ZERO evidence found of the Lamanite/Nephite civilization?””

“Have you ever been to South America?”

I have, and the place was absolutely crawling with Lamanite and Nephite Jews, just as Joseph Smith testified.

[Utah Girl]

Have you ever been to a Mormon Wedding Reception (rhetorical question)? They aren’t fun! That is unless you like punch and cookies and shaking hands.

LOL, you've got them down pat. However, times are changing. I have 2 nephews and one niece who have gotten married over the past couple of years. My niece had dancing and a spaghetti dinner and no formal line (no shaking of hands.) At my nephew's reception, they served crepes and they had a candy table (which apparently is quite the thing now.) He went to Japan on his mission, so they had those takeout boxes on a table with 25-30 types of candy in jars. The kids went wild and filled up their little boxes. It was really fun. They didn't have a formal line either. My other nephew had the traditional punch and cake at his open house. Don't know what they had at the reception in Idaho...

This brings back memories of the summer when I was a bridesmaid at 7 weddings. LOL. Punch and cookies at them all with the line and shaking of hands. I was so depressed because I wasn't getting married (always the bridesmaid, never the bride...)

[DelphiUser]

Yes. No.

Brevity, the soul of wit.

[Utah Girl]

Awww, another illusion shot down. I love those commercials about “Family: isn’t it about time?” That daddy doing ballet with his daugher, and the steelworker singing Itsy Bitsy spider with his daughter over the phone, and the family that traps the workaholic dad in the camper and the little boy who wants a story read to him.

[DelphiUser]

It’s what the couple does with the leftover green jello that’s fun... Oops, did I say that out loud?

*High Five*

[DelphiUser]

women’s hair caught in sage bushes, children’s bones found in their mothers’ arms, and wolves picking at the bones. It was, he wrote, “a sight which can never be forgotten.” Carleton buried the remains and piled rocks into a monument topped by a wooden cross

This has to be incorrect. CC who is a descendant of John D lee posted something earlier about how they buried the remains and swore a blood oath over the grave.

(spin, rinse, repeat) I don’t think we will ever know all the details and I for one am grateful.

[FastCoyote]

“It originated on the left and has more to do with demographics than ideology.”

Uh, no. While leftists may oppose Mormons on secular grounds, the ideological problems are legion and have been known about since Joseph Smith first got run out of town.

[Sherman Logan]

If I remember correctly, there were women’s groups campaigning against the “three barbarisms” before the WBTS.

They were alcohol, slavery and Mormon polygamy.

[DelphiUser]

Thank God on Kolob that you have admitted your total distrust of scientists, LDS or otherwise.

Would it be bashing if I pointed ouot that this is called baiting and is strictly forbidden here? (even though we all seem to do it at one point or another, I guess you thought it was your turn.)

Your grasp of reality is astounding and will amaze all who read in fine detail the wisdom you bring.

Yes, I am rather “Special” don’t you think? (lol)

”Is it because there has been ZERO evidence found of the Lamanite/Nephite civilization?”

“Have you ever been to South America?”
I have, and the place was absolutely crawling with Lamanite and Nephite Jews, just as Joseph Smith testified.

How would you know? Did you expect them to come up to you wearing kepah’s, prayer shawls with beards and phylacteries?

If you aw me on the street, and you had to guess my ethnic makeup you would probably guess WASP. I have Indians, Maoris, Spanish Irish, Scandinavian, and am a direct descendent of Abraham through the line of Joseph. I have the genealogy to prove it.

There is an old saying, you can’t judge a book by it’s cover.
And you can’t judge a person by theirs either.

Did you see all that ancient stone work? Nephites.

[DelphiUser]

ouot was supposed to be out, but well, I have no excuse...

[DelphiUser]

***Placemarker***

[Sherman Logan]

Reads like the MSM desperately trying to avoid stating that a horrible was commited by a member of a minority group.

[Sherman Logan]

Reads like the MSM desperately trying to avoid stating that a horrible crime was commited by a member of a minority group.