At the Salt Lake Tribune, "Petition urges LDS Church to soften stance on gays," reporting efforts of a collection of LDS and ex-LDS to lobby the LDS Church by delivering a petition reproving its stand on Prop 8. According to the article, "The committee plans to deliver the petition to top LDS leaders Nov. 4, the first anniversary of Prop 8's passage." The headline is somewhat misleading -- the LDS Church has already softened its stance on gays within the Church. What the petitioners want is for the Church to change its opposition to gay marriage in particular.
The article reports that some Mormons feel a need to choose between the LDS Church and their gay children. I understand that some people feel this way, but it is not the Church that forces such a choice. LDS parents don't have to choose between the Church and grown children who go inactive. They don't have to choose between the Church and grown children who choose to smoke. They don't have to choose between the Church and grown children who hook up or sleep around. Why should they have to choose between the Church and grown children who are gay?
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Toms River is just another shill trying to get some hits for his anti-equal marriage liesite. Ignore them.
The arc of history is long, but it bends toward justice.
Martin Luther King
The principle reason gays want gay marriage is that it publicly affirms that they are not "other." But making such a statement is not the purpose of marriage.
Oppose gay marriage!
Once the christian world agrees to tell the truth about Homosexuality and its relationship to God, and back it up with scripture, Maybe this will help with many questions some gays and non gays have about why it is wrong in the eyes of God and his Son to be homosexsual.Until then we might as well let it all rest. Fear of the truth dominates the world, that is why many souls will be lost.
Town Cryer
Cordia, the Christian world has had 2,000 years to tell the truth about homosexuality. Maybe the answer is not as obvious as you imagine. Certainly, all Christians are not on the same page with you. Perhaps you might ask yourself why, rather than just wishing away the controversy.
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