At this point, it's probably also interesting to point out that Mary's pregnancy was the result of the Heavenly Father getting it on with her in fleshly form! (Mormon teachings explain that she was still a virgin because she'd never had sex with a mortal--sex with a god doesn't violate a person's "virginity.")
I've always wondered how Catholics feel about that tidbit.
It's yet another point of departure that Mormons seem to always gloss over in the attempt to mask how different their beliefs are from the (other?) Christian faiths.
Yes, and it's not like LDS apostles have steered clear of these things in more contemporary times:
...Christ was born into the world as the literal son of this Holy Being; he was born in the same personal, real, and literal sense that ANY mortal son is born to a mortal father. There is NOTHING figurative about his PATERNITY; he was begotten, CONCEIVED, and born in the NORMAL and NATURAL course of events, for he is the Son of God, and that designation means what it says." (LDS apostle Bruce R. McConkie, Mormon Doctrine, 1966 ed., p. 742)
McConkie says a few times here that it was "natural" -- not supernatural. (And he's not simply talking about the "birth" of Christ for he specifically mentions "conceived...in the normal and natural course of events" and that God the Father was linked to this "literal...paternity").
How should Catholics feel about all the people they work with, play with, hang out with, who believe that Mary had sex with Joseph before marriage, and that’s how Jesus came to be?
And are they also feeling bad about other Christians who believe that Mary had sex with Joseph AFTER Jesus was born, and had other children?
When you get into mechanisms of acts, rather than their fact, you go beyond what the bible teaches. Same with things as simple on the surface as communion. Eat this bread, Drink this cup. Pretty simple, but various denominations have made it into an area of contention. As with Baptism, and what might ensue from the act.
And don’t forget speaking in tongues. Well, do forget it, most people do, purposely, because they want to get along as one big happy christian brotherhood. They simply stay out of each other’s churches.