Mormon Church Calls For Compassion Toward Gays, Says Homosexuality Is Not A Choice

[Mayhem]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/...ays-homosexuality-not-a-choice_n_2252874.html

The Mormon church has launched a new campaign encouraging its members to be more compassionate toward the LGBT community.

On Thursday, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints launched the website mormonsandgays.org, in which it calls for Mormons of all stripes to "love one another."

As Buzzfeed notes, the new campaign reflects an "evolution from [the church's] past teachings" as it asserts that sexuality is not a personal choice.

An official statement posted on the new website reads:

The experience of same-sex attraction is a complex reality for many people. The attraction itself is not a sin, but acting on it is. Even though individuals do not choose to have such attractions, they do choose how to respond to them. With love and understanding, the Church reaches out to all God’s children, including our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters.

CNN reports that the website's launch appears to support the belief held by some gay-marriage activists that the LDS church is "toning down its opposition to same-sex marriage."

However, as the Associated Press notes, church leaders still insist that "they aren't changing the Mormon teaching that same-sex relationships are sinful."

Still, church leaders say they hope the new resource will foster a greater "understanding of homosexuality among Mormons and a more civil conversation about the issue."

Church spokesman Michael Purdy told the Deseret News that the site is also part of an effort by the Mormon church “to teach and clarify" the church's position on homosexuality.

"There are some aspects of our belief and practice that are simply not well understood," Purdy said. "Too often these types of big, important issues are dealt with in sound bites, and often by individuals who do not have the complete picture of what the church is doing."

Think Progress' Zack Ford had this to say about the new campaign:

[T]hese improvements over blatant ostracization and condemnation could very well save the lives of many young people and help keep families together. However, with this approach, the Mormon Church has essentially only caught up to the “hate the sin, not the sinner” approaches of the Catholic Church and many evangelical Christians, which are still incredibly problematic.

In 2008, Mormons faced "intense criticism" after church authorities offered vocal support and funding for California's Propositon 8, a ballot measure that called for a ban on gay marriage.

The backlash was swift -- and church leaders say they were "stunned" by the negative response. Since then, the Associated Press writes, the church has been actively reaching out to the LGBT community "to heal tensions."

Meanwhile, the American public has seemed to have grown "more sympathetic toward same-sex marriage," Buzzfeed notes. According to USA Today, a Gallup poll published this week revealed that more than half of Americans support the legalization of same-sex marriage.

 

[Rattrap]

I read this first as 'Moron Church calls for...' and then realized it said Mormon. And then realized...

My disregard for the world's newest most successful cult aside, I'm always glad to see a move away from outdated thinking, even if it's only a symbolic step.

I'm more glad to see more than half of Americans are with the times!

 

[Bloodshot Scott]

Conveniently released by USA Today after the election, considering Romney is Mormon.

 

[lurkingdirk]

Let's hope more of the Christian church follows this lead. It's not really equal rights, but it is, at least, a conversation heading in the right direction.

 

[Will E Worm]

Conveniently released by USA Today after the election, considering Romney is Mormon.

Yes. Conveniently released for the election.


Underlining agenda...


Now that America accepts sodomites, you can now let us marry multiple wives and even child. The Mormon "church."

Double standard, you can't marry multiple wives. But, you can have sex with as many people as you want, and on film for money.
You can't have sex off camera for money. That's wrong somehow?

Also, you can live with many females or males and be "married."

 

[Mr. Daystar]

It's not a choice, and I can prove it....although I do believe with woman sometimes it is, just because men can be total assholes, and frustrate them to the point they've had enough of us.


Here's the proof.

Hot, wet, tight, juicy vagina. I'm married, I've had it, I've not racked up a huge number of girls in my past, but I've fucked a few. Can any man deny just how joyous that feeling is? Sinking a throbbing hard on into a hot, tight pussy. The way it grips your shaft with a wet tightness. The way gets all juicy, and makes that sound as she gets wetter, and you pound harder, and harder, until you bury it, and unload deep in the bottom of her clutching hot pussy.

So....having been there, and knowing just how good it is...why would you choose a muscular, sweaty, hairy man ass? Why would you rather have a rough beard chafe your balls?


Nope....no man would choose those over hot, wet pussy. It's in you from birth.

 

[Will E Worm]

It's not a choice, and I can prove it....although I do believe with woman sometimes it is, just because men can be total assholes, and frustrate them to the point they've had enough of us.

Females can't blame real men for their bad choices in life.

Want to date the "bad boys" and "sleep" around? Suffer the consequences. :elaugh:

Nope....no man would choose those over hot, wet pussy. It's in you from birth.

Sodomites are not men.


Everything you said would offend the sodomites. :tongue:

 

[Will E Worm]

How Mormons really feel about sodomite marriage.

 

[Bloodshot Scott]

It's not a choice, and I can prove it....although I do believe with woman sometimes it is, just because men can be total assholes, and frustrate them to the point they've had enough of us.


Here's the proof.

Hot, wet, tight, juicy vagina. I'm married, I've had it, I've not racked up a huge number of girls in my past, but I've fucked a few. Can any man deny just how joyous that feeling is? Sinking a throbbing hard on into a hot, tight pussy. The way it grips your shaft with a wet tightness. The way gets all juicy, and makes that sound as she gets wetter, and you pound harder, and harder, until you bury it, and unload deep in the bottom of her clutching hot pussy.

So....having been there, and knowing just how good it is...why would you choose a muscular, sweaty, hairy man ass? Why would you rather have a rough beard chafe your balls?


Nope....no man would choose those over hot, wet pussy. It's in you from birth.

I lol'd.

 

[Johan]

Sodomites are not men.

Then, they are pretty much like you...

But I notice you only speak about sodomites. I guees it mean pussy lickers are allowed to get married, raised kids, etc... Do they ?

 

[Will E Worm]

But I notice you only speak about sodomites. I guees it mean pussy lickers are allowed to get married, raised kids, etc... Do they ?

I am a man.

Sodomite is the proper name for anyone who engages in sexual acts with the same sex.

 

[Johan]

I am a man.

No, you're not :nono:
Or, at least, not a sapien... maybe an australopithecus, a very dumb one.

Sodomite is the proper name for anyone who engages in sexual acts with the same sex.

I don't think "sodomite" is an apropriate word for lesbians...

 

[Will E Worm]

No, you're not :nono:
Or, at least, not a sapien... maybe an australopithecus, a very dumb one.

:nono: You like being wrong.

I don't think "sodomite" is an apropriate word for lesbians...

Like it or not, it is and it always will be.

 

[Rey C.]

Conveniently released by USA Today after the election, considering Romney is Mormon.

Romney had about a billion dollars in his campaign accounts. If he'd wanted to, did he not have the ability to get the word out on his own, with or without USA Today??? They had enough money to call my mother's phone 20 times a day and bother the fuck out of her. So seems like they could have dropped a line in about how Mittens was gay friendly if they'd wanted to. I know quite a few Mormons - I even attended a Mormon wedding and acted as best man for a Mormon friend. And despite what's being said here, none of them (IMO) are what you'd call gay friendly. In fact, they don't just hate the sin, they also seem to hate the sinner. Pretty weird religion, if you ask me. But to each his own. You can worship a rock if you want to. Just don't bother me about it.

 

[Bloodshot Scott]

Romney had about a billion dollars in his campaign accounts. If he'd wanted to, did he not have the ability to get the word out on his own, with or without USA Today??? They had enough money to call my mother's phone 20 times a day and bother the fuck out of her. So seems like they could have dropped a line in about how Mittens was gay friendly if they'd wanted to. I know quite a few Mormons - I even attended a Mormon wedding and acted as best man for a Mormon friend. And despite what's being said here, none of them (IMO) are what you'd call gay friendly. In fact, they don't just hate the sin, they also seem to hate the sinner. Pretty weird religion, if you ask me. But to each his own. You can worship a rock if you want to. Just don't bother me about it.

My post was about the MSMs' love affair with Barry more than it was about Romney being a stout Mormon. Their agenda was pretty obvious to me.

I could give a hoot one way or the other as Mittens wasn't my horse and my horse (Johnson) had a snowball's chance in hell of winning. (I stand with pride about that vote that I cast, I do.) It fucking disgusts me to no end the way the MSM clearly puppets the masses and they buy it, hook, line, sinker. I won't get into that diatribe in this thread right now though.

 

[Rey C.]

Last time I checked, News Corp was a (big) part of the ol' "MSM" too though; Fox News was the most viewed cable news channel and the Wall Street Journal was ahead of USA Today and The New York Times in subscribers.

But yeah, there is and has always been media bias. But people often just see the bias that they don't agree with and ignore the bias that they do agree with.

 

[mikexmoran]

Not sure why anyone would think it is a "choice".

I'm very attracted to women with fair skin, blue eyes, and freckles. Especially red heads. That isn't a choice, I'm naturally attracted to them. I have nothing against other "types" of women and even have varying degrees of attraction towards them.

It is the way I feel and I didn't "choose" it.

I may be over simplifying it, but I always equate sexual preference to this. I really don't get all of the "hate" around it, but that is my intolerance for intolerance.

 

[mikexmoran]

Not sure why anyone would think it is a "choice".

I'm very attracted to women with fair skin, blue eyes, and freckles. Especially red heads. That isn't a choice, I'm naturally attracted to them. I have nothing against other "types" of women and even have varying degrees of attraction towards them.

It is the way I feel and I didn't "choose" it.

I may be over simplifying it, but I always equate sexual preference to this. I really don't get all of the "hate" around it, but that is my intolerance for intolerance.

 

[twat36975248664224]

Wait WHAT!! Is it this the same church that fought gay marriage? I guess the world is really coming to an end.

 

[Sam Fisher]

I've had a lot of male friends.. some of them were very good friends. We golfed together, went to ball games together, etc. But, there was NEVER a thought in my mind of wanting to lick his hairy butt-hole, and then slide my dick inside. Nor did I ever desire to suck his dick.

:throwup:

No way does a man wake up some morning and out of the blue, desire that guy in the photo above.. Gays and lesbians HAVE to be born gay. Some how the wiring got mixed when he was still in the womb.