Posted on 03/17/2009 3:10:36 PM PDT by Erin Brown
CBS merely brushed off the controversy that upset many members of the Mormon Church when interviewing HBO’s “Big Love” star Bill Paxton on March 16, 2009.
The TV series about a Mormon polygamist has not surprisingly gotten plenty of attention in its three years on air. This time, however, “Big Love” is causing trouble because the March 15 episode showed a highly sacred Mormon temple ceremony. CBS’s The Early Show host Chris Wragge mentioned the controversy during an interview with Paxton:
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Last time I look, there were no Mormon polygamist. The church outlawed it before Utah became a state. There are sect’s that practice polygamy the church does not associate with, like Islam.
I’d say Islam’s view of marriage is more in line with polygamy then the Mormon church.
I’ve got a big problem with any religion that conducts “secret ceremonies.”
In fact, any facet of any organized sect that requires secrecy is a valid indicator of a CULT.
"Aliens"
"True Lies"
"Twister"
"Titanic"
"Weird Science"
Just the top four put him in rarified air.
don’t forget him as Morgan Earp in ‘Tombstone’
And Thunderbirds!
I found this on wikipedia - interesting!
An 8 year old (Bill) Paxton was in the crowd waving when President Kennedy emerged from the Hotel Texas in Ft. Worth the morning of Nov. 22, 1963. There are pictures at the Sixth Floor Museum in Dallas where the young Paxton can clearly be seen astride the shoulders of an unidentified man
It the basements of the Vatican they do ceremonies as well yet that is not a cult. Since I don't follow their religion it is not important to me what is important to them. Unlike islam, they are not plotting to overthrow the west.
edcoil -
You are incorrect in your statement. The LDS Temple ceremony is secret even to Mormons until they are old enough and deemed worthy to attend the Temple. Mostly when they go on an LDS mission or when they are married. Roughly only 25% of Mormons ever attend the secret ceremonies in the Temple.
Guess we just have to disagree, I know of one ceremony required of every mormon in the temple young and old alike.
No you don't. I guarantee it! I am a sixth generation Mormon - I am ex-LDS, now Christian. You don't have any idea what you're talking about.
So baptizing for the dead is limited to 25% of the faith?
Apollo 13
Absolutely.
In order to be baptized for the dead you must be at least 12 years of age, and you must pass a Bishop’s interview and be deemed worthy of a Temple Recommend. Most LDS children never attend a baptism for the dead.
Many are disinterested, some are not worthy and many live far away from an LDS Temple.
Even the teens who attend are not given access to any area of the Temple except the baptismal font area and the dressing room. So until you are going to be married, or for a man have attained the Melchezidek Priesthood at age 18, you are not allowed into the inner sanctums of the Temple even IF you are worthy.
There are several cermonies performed in LDS temples...
....Baptism for the dead (mostly but not entirely done by teenagers)
.....Washing and Annointing (for living and dead)
........Endowments (part of which was shown on Big Love) (for living and dead)
.......Sealing husband to wife (AKA “temple marriage”)
......Sealing of Parents to Children (done when the parents had children before they were married in the Temple and done for the dead)
......Second Annointing (this is rare, it is a “guarantee of Exaltation (godhood)” . This one is so rare it may not be done anymore but has been done in the past).
“ex-mormon, now Christian. “I once was lost but now am found, was blind but now I see”
Why did you quit the church?
Why did you quit the church?
I do not want to give you a “drive by” post. I am heading out to dinner in about 5 min. I will give you a proper post either later tonight or tomorrow morning.
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