Mormon Open Forum

I encourage all to earnestly pray daily for the health of President Monson. While unlikely Pres Monson will be the great reformer to bring on the second coming by bringing us back to the original intent of the WofW (preaching it as a good practice rather than a requirement), it’s a even money bet Pres Monson will further simplify our temple liturgy and send the silly Gs the way of the dodo bird once stick-in-the-mud Pres Packer goes on to his eternal reward. For those who scoff, I predicted two piece G’s and simplified temple liturgy years before those changes. The reforms are inevitable, may Monson be the guy to do it.

Steve EM

Geoff B over at M* has an interesting post to which my comment was deleted, so I make the comment a post here, where intellectual freedom rings.

For background, Geoff quotes Pres. Faust: “I believe that never before in the history of the Church has there been more unity than exists among my Brethren of the First Presidency, the Quorum of the Twelve, and the other General Authorities of the Church, who have been called and chosen and who are now guiding the Church……………….” ( James E. Faust, “Called and Chosen,” Ensign, Nov. 2005, 53)

And Nero fiddled as Rome burned.

Steve EM

Over at Snarkernacle, even after withdrawing my nomination and obtaining agreement I wouldn’t be in the final tally, I’ve been elected one of three stooges. After someone then snarked an inquiry if Snarkette was my wife, I added:

“No, but I knew her in college. That’s why well managed polygamy is heaven for men. At a minimum, a healthy heterosexual guy needs at least two women on opposite cycles in separate houses. If you have the means and schedule, four wives are ideal on staggered cycles such that you spend ovulation week with each.”

A nerve was hit as both Snarky comments were immediately taken down. Let’s go easy on Snarkette this week. With luck this is only PMS not CMS.

Steve EM

I’ve been away for awhile and, I’m not sure anyone even stops by here anymore. No, androgynous Prudence Brown nor his buddy Napoleonic Steve didn’t scare me out of the bloggernacle. Things have just been very hectic at work and supporting the wife and three girls at home and assisting my son on his mission and a daughter w/ education expenses all takes precedence over the free entertainment of pulling the chains of people who take themselves far too seriously.

There’s a neat open discussion going on at Nine Moons about gay Mormons. So I have a question that seems to be beneath the typical bloggernacle snobs. For background, the LDS church has more effeminate men than any organization I’ve ever been involved in, and this has been the case for the 35 years or so I’ve been a member (was born Catholic). BYU is like flammer Mecca. I assume most are gay, but even if only a fraction of these light-on-their-feet types are gay, our church has plenty of homosexuals. Of course, many homosexuals are straight acting. I served w/ some great missionaries that I only later learned are gay (sadly, most tried marriage, and are today divorced and no longer LDS).

So to the question, since the church now has the slogan “gays are welcome in the church”, where’s all the gay PDA at church? Yeah, I know some LDS flammers are bi and chose heterosexuality (seems to be the case with some GAs), and other LDS gays are just old fashioned self repressed or in the closet, but some are out now and yet you never see these guys holding another man’s hand at church, kissing, etc. Why are all active LDS gays still in the closet at church in 2005?

Steve EM

Jenna says:

I posted a simple question on another LDS blog. It was not posted, and I was subsequently banned.

My question is merely this:

Has the Church begun to seek inactives to “discipline”, and will they continue to do so in the manner that they are going after scholar Simon Southerton?

Brother Southerton has been inactive for seven years but is being called in on charges of adultery. He has since reconciled with his wife, and was separated at the time he was living with another woman.

If the Church went after every fornicator and adulterer, membership would dwindle to maybe one million, most of them children.