Originally founded as the Virginia Region of the National Conference of Christians and Jews, the Virginia Center for Inclusive Communities has concluded our association with NCCJ and has joined with many of our fellow offices across the country to become the cornerstone of a new movement fighting prejudice in all its forms.
So, how about it OMm (and Sevenbak)?
...In the spirit of the Virginia Conference of Community and Justice (the organization that authored the article), how about the LDS church drop the doctrines that divide them from other faith groups (which only prejudice and discriminate against the adherents of other faith groups, or non-faith groups) and allow peoples of all faith (or no faith) to worship in your temple, without prejudice. Also, in the spirit of cooperation, justice and community, let salvation be determined by each people's own belief and not just by the exclusive LDS faith?
And in the name of getting along...can't you all just drop Joseph Smith's first vision, which discriminates against the Historic Christian faith and its professors, especially Presbyterians?
These simple steps would go a long way in healing the rift that exists between the LDS and the "typical protestant mainstreamer". Do you really disrespect them that much and have such a strong desire to discriminate against them that you insist that your faith is the only true faith? Do you not know that your prejudice will make it impossible to create a good community for all faiths (or non-faiths)?
Can you free yourself of the dogmatism that separates you from the community at large?
We are not in contemplation, as far as I know, of dropping historical fact from our worship.