Posted on 01/27/2011 3:50:15 PM PST by Colofornian
Editor's note: Third in a series about the Mormon wedding experience.
In his book, The Holy Temple, President Boyd K. Packer provides a wise reason for brides to select an appropriate wedding dress.
When you have the opportunity to go to the temple to participate in the temple ceremonies or to witness a sealing, remember where you are. You are a guest in the house of the Lord. You should groom yourself and clothe yourself in such a way that you would feel comfortable should your Host appear, the senior apostle wrote.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has provided guidelines regarding appropriate temple wedding dresses and clothing (Source: The Eternal Marriage Student Manual, p. 317).
Brides may wear their wedding dress in the temple to be sealed. Dresses must be white, without heavy (or elaborate) ornamentation, have long sleeves and a modest neckline, have all sheer material lined, and the train must be removable or be able to be pinned or hooked up out of the way. If there is any question about the appropriateness, take the dress or fabric and pattern to the temple for approval.
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Guests should be counseled to dress as they would attend a sacrament meeting. Tuxedos or other formal wear is not appropriate. All guests must have current temple recommends....
(Excerpt) Read more at mormontimes.com ...
Can they drink Kahlua?
Ah, but those pushing the lies and blasphemies of Mormonism will take your telling the truth about their cult as an attack on each of them individually! They will deem your truth to be hate speech, and try to squelch truth in favor of their blasphemies floating freely at FR. And THAT is how the flame war begins on a Mormonism thread. Just wait, it is as likely to come flaming forth from a non-mormon who hates the confrontations as it is to come from one of the feckless mormonism apologists who post links but cannot put three declarative sentences together to explaina ny of their blasphemies and why Mormonism claims the blasphemies are ‘restored Christianity’.
I'll bet Groucho would be accepted in the INMAN crowd as well!
open bar for the reception?? :D
Surely you Hateful ANTIs misrepresent once again!!!
Why...
...PD has a LIST of places to find ALL the information you could EVER want!
--MormonDupe(Doncha PD!?)
Hey UB, if I EVER get remotely close to your location, I’ll be stoppin’ by. If you ever come out East, same goes!
best always,
ampu
Those boats were HOLEY!
I take a cup of instant coffee and mix it with a cup of sugar and vanilla beans and a quart of vodka. Let it just sit there for a week or so and voila...you have Kahlua!
But vodka is all we’re experiencing tonight.
You’re always welcome here. Ask Elsie, he showed up one day.
Kolob I've read about. But what are the cork submarines?
If the stake bosses don’t know about it. ... I had a bishop in the Mormon church who would go for a beer or two with me in town on occasion. One time we were having a conversation at the bar and a couple came up to the bartender and asked if he knew of a justice of the peace close by since they had just gotten themselves a marriage license. The Mormon bishop volunteered to perform the ceremony for them ... when asked how he could do that, he told them the truth that he was a bishop in the Mormon heirarchy. They decided to leave and find a judge who frequented a law office two doors down from the bar. So you can do as you please so long as fellow Mormon heirarchy don’t catch you.
If you peruse the Free Republic religion forums you will notice a pattern. There's an anti-Mormon group of people here that spends a great deal of their time attacking the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. They post regurgitated propaganda on an almost daily basis.
They have a misguided obsession. You can witness many different tactics employed that you might find quite interesting. The straw man argument is a big favorite and is frequently preceded by cherry-picking quotes or other material. After the "quotation" the attacker will misrepresent what has been said or what was meant and then attack their own interpretation.Later they will have the audacity to claim they were "only" quoting our own material.
They will of course insist ad nauseum that they are merely using our sources and are therefore innocent of any deceptive practice. LDS persons have no issue whatsoever having our scriptures or leaders quoted as long as it is presented fairly and accurately. This is rarely (if ever) done.
Another favorite is posting scripture or statements which on their own really present no dilemma. They make something out of nothing while never bringing up a single objection that hasn't been addressed a hundred times before.
You might note a couple of other tactics used to try to antagonize is the use of disrespectful or insulting terms or language and/or pictures. That's a Christlike thing to do right? Yeah I don't think so either. It does speak volumes about them though.
Some of them claim being some sort of special witness to you as being supposedly former Mormons. So someone who is an ex-member of any organization would never have an axe to grind or have reason to try to justify their actions by any means? Perhaps not but perhaps so. The LDS Church gains members from other denominations as well as others faiths all the time. This doesn't make them an expert on anything and you certainly won't hear them attacking their former Church.
Frequently they cruise the headlines of the day seeking any story that might be twisted into making the Church look bad. Anything will do, just watch the progression of posts following it and see what I mean.
After reading their posts, I invite you to seek the truth about whatever "issue" they seem to be "revealing" or "exposing". I promise that if you do so with honest intent, the "ahah" moments you will have will be many and frequent. You will start to recognize the tactics employed to cleverly twist and attack and will likely chuckle the more you see. In actuality, there's nothing new here. It's all been addressed many times before.
The latest twist in the anti-Mormon propaganda machine is to actually go to the links provided, but then they cherry pick what they want, quote and straw man attack that. Almost without fail you will see examples of this following this post.
Clever. It almost appears that they are helping you out by doing some footwork for you. Not so much. Don't be insulted, look for yourself. It's not the haystack they want you to think. So again, seek the truth. They aren't providing it. Use your God-given brain and discernment.
Here's a few links to get your started from a different viewpoint. I have found that the vast majority of the "issues" brought up can be found and addressed at http://www.fairlds.org/ but here's more:
http://scriptures.lds.org/
http://www.lds.org
http://www.fairlds.org/
http://www.mormonapologetics.org/
http://www.mormonwiki.com/Main_Page
http://www.lightplanet.com/response/index.html
http://www.jefflindsay.com/LDS_Intro.shtml
http://www.answeringantimormons.com/index.htm
http://promormon.blogspot.com/
Now you will likely notice the "you never address or answer our points" posts pop up as usual. All after providing the answers just as you have here.
Sometimes it is claimed that these sites present a needle in a haystack. Far from it. But if you give up before you try you won't know will you? They often state that these sites provide no answer. They just don't want you looking. It is as simple as that.
Will you wear blinders too? Seek truth. Find out for yourself. Want to chat with someone on any topic? A few of these sites provide just that. So do your homework sincere seeker of truth. Listen and read from both "sides". Make up your own mind.
I witness to you of these truths and wish you the best, in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen.
“You should groom yourself and clothe yourself in such a way that you would feel comfortable should your Host appear,”
I’m more comfortable in the presence of the lord wearing sandals and shorts.
here’s a little nugget i heard on the Howie Carr Show on WRKO in Boston -— Marriott Hotels cleaned up it’s porn act because Mitt Romney is on the Board and he wants to run for POTUS & doesn’t want to be connected to the porn business ANYMORE!!
LOL - but where’s the beef?
So you deny that your founder Joseph Smith was a convicted felon?
Don’t doubt it a bit. But Mittens should be told that Glenn Beck is more likely to fulfill the White Horse prophecy than the sleazy Mitt Romney.
bottom line- ya’ pay to play that’s how i see it with Mormonism, no matter how you dress it up or down the bottom line is The Almighty Dollar
GB vs MR? now that’s differant. Here’s the thing,tho,
GB cries more than JBoehner - i don’t like crybabies- and Mitt Romney may have problems with his eligibility for office of POTUS as it appears his father was born in Mexico.
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