Posted on 09/01/2011 8:12:06 AM PDT by greyfoxx39
Marriage is a fundamental tenet of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. But church leaders now face a matrimony problem within their flock: Young single Mormons are delaying marriage.
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Maher and Forsyth reflect a shift that worries national church leaders. Women want to marry. Men want to wait. And church leaders are concerned because they believe marriage is a prerequisite for life in eternity.
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Mormon church leaders say Mormon men are postponing marriage either for financial, career or educational concerns. And sometimes for other reasons, according to church President Thomas Monson.
"Men are having a little too much fun being single, taking extravagant vacations, buying expensive cars and toys, and just generally enjoying the carefree life with your friends," Monson said in a speech to the Worldwide General Conference of the church in April.
Mormons believe that marriage in the temple is mandatory to reach the celestial, or highest level, of heaven. Only Mormons who marry can reach this level and expect to share eternity with their spouse and children.
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Marriage is more important than education or career, said Thomas Holman, professor of family life at Brigham Young University. "When you scrimp and sacrifice together when you're young, that brings you closer."
(Excerpt) Read more at sacbee.com ...
Sounds like they are grooming members for Obama's world.
Ping
Heh. I remember a memoir that noted how important early marriage and family were with certain generations.
During Viet Nam fr’instance, young Mormon men couldn’t wait to start a family.
Mitt’s 4 sons are serving their country, you know... just in a “different way”.
Mormon men waiting longer to marry, worrying church officials,
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Gollies wasnt it the girls who were unmarried who were “worrying church officials” last month ???
Maybe one of the problems is the segregated meetings...
Maybe if the mormons let the girls into the MALE ONLY pesthood errr “priesthood” meetings they will all hear the same message ...
Then again the men might like to learn how to make garbage bins out of ice cream cans...
and then theres the added benefit of the two genders actually meeting and greeting...
“Getting to know you” “Hello I love you, wont you tell me your name” “Some enchanted evening, you may meet a stranger, you may meet a stranger, across a crowded room”
thats always handy...
Just stirring....
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With today’s access to a free flow of information the pale missionairies are encountering people forewarned. The mormon cults only hope for tomorrow’s converts is within the indoctrination camps environment of mormon enclaves. Not by coincidence, the mormon president announced their god has a special cherry on the mormon sundae for any mormons who father and raise ten children to adult active mormonhood.
FYI...for any taking umbrage with god small “g”, I do so recognizing mormons believe themselves future omnipotent gods in training, and that their god before them was a man traing to be a god himself before that. So I believe the small “g” is appropriate.
Adopted by mormons, raised in the cult and left it permanently on my eighteenth birthday. Nearly all my relatives (thru adoption) are mormon.
Well, this could lead to going back to their polygamy practices. Women have no change to be in the “celestial kingdom” without a husband. So mormons might just have to start have men marry as many woman as possible just to “call” them.
Guess the overseas recruiting isn’t going as planned...
World wide web, its everywhere, and with it the truth about the LDS..
hmmm,
Jesus never married. So, does that mean he isn’t in heaven, seated at the right hand of His Father?
Mormonism, so very wrong in so many ways.
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OK, Mormon bashers, there may be a lot of things to make fun of in Mormons or any religion but being married and having a family is not one of them.
Our whole society is based on families. Changing that to having villages raise children will not help society or children. The family is where it's at. I say more power to them and I hope it catches on. We all need to be raised in families.
I don't think the Mormons force anybody into anything. One of the most interesting thing I have seen about them is their belief in what they call “free agency”. Their term of “free agency” to them refers to their being able to choose good or bad but they also believe that their children need to be able to choose their lifestyle and their own relationships. They really believe live and let live.
The problem here is raising children to believe that a heaven filled with earthly and carnal pleasures is the ultimate goal of life and then telling them that the only way to achieve that goal is to get married and have ten children that will also be members of this members only club.
Apparently, you know nothing of mormonISM.
I don't think the Mormons force anybody into anything
If you are saying you wont get into the celestial kingdom unless you do this or that is not forcing.
Their term of “free agency” to them refers to their being able to choose good or bad but they also believe that their children need to be able to choose their lifestyle and their own relationships.
Well, that would be true if you discount shunning and/or gossip to destroy you and/or having the child's life style reflect on to the parents and how they are treated.
They really believe live and let live.
Apparently, you know nothing of mormonISM.
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You may be right but there is evidence that could lead one to believe He was married, certainly there is evidence that the Templars believed He was married.
I'm sure many of you will throw tomatoes at me but, I personally lean toward His being married. Only married men were allowed to be Rabi's in Jesus’ time. Then, there was the marriage feast that His mother seemed to be in charge of. Why would she concern Jesus with her management of the wedding unless He was part of it.
It doesn't make any difference to me one way or another except I think He could understand what I go through much better having been married.
Who knows?
Recruiting must not be going too well. The Church wants members to pop out more mormons the old fashion way to keep the money flowing for the future.
That's a good point. I wonder if they are testing the waters with articles like this? I thought the church was worried about not having more morg babies but this could be a signal to others that polygamy may be the only options to save those Mormon girls from being excluded from the celestial kingdom with their forever family...
The slandering, sliming and libeling of the REAL Jesus and/or true Christianity has begun on FR in defense of the false prophet Joseph Smith and his book of fiction.
And mormons demand that they be recognized as "Christians"!
Mormonism not only demands a "seat at the Christian banquet table", it demands to set the menu, control the guest list, collect the funds from the ticket sales, and choose its own non-Biblical unedited and false message from its chosen speaker, all the while whining about being persecuted.
J, let’s take your premise a few more steps down the road shall we?
If I recall, you’re married to a mormon, as am I, so we should both be able to view the following questions with some degree of background and knowledge.
Seeing as how I was sealed to my wife in the Wash. D.C. temple, and taught that it was an eternal covenant essential to my eternal salvation, that it would permit me and my wife to dwell in the presence of god, it was incumbent upon me to undertake the ritual and swear to the oaths given to me.
How then, in mormonism, could Jesus be in the celestial kingdom, residing with the mormon god if He did not take out these oaths and submit to the temple ritual and swear the oaths?
Where, in any of the texts, written or oral histories, does one find any reference to a temple of this kind?
Where does one find any reference to Jesus participating in any of these rituals?
Jesus was referred to as rabbi, but he wasn’t an “official” Rabbi as defined today. The word rabbi originates from the Hebrew meaning “teacher.”
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/Rabbis.html
I know. Jesus was not married.
I once went to a mormom wedding and the funny thing was, I didn’t.
They didn’t let us watch the ceremony, only the reception.
Odd.
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