Comments on: Excommunicated

By: ltbugaf

ltbugaf — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 02:34:17 +0000

Guess I should have said something about the link I posted. It’s an article about the University of Florida extending benefits to unmarried “partners” of employees, but only on the condition that they be in an active sexual relationship.

By: ltbugaf

ltbugaf — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 00:32:21 +0000

http://www.gainesville.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060120/LOCAL/201200329/1078/GATORS02

By: rick

rick — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 21:34:25 +0000

I do my best… =)

By: ltbugaf

ltbugaf — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 19:55:18 +0000

Rick, I thought you could argue with ANYTHING! ;)

By: rick

rick — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 16:27:36 +0000

I certainly can’t argue with that.

By: ltbugaf

ltbugaf — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 13:02:53 +0000

It’s no more Orwellian than the NAACP kicking out one of its members for advocating the reinstitution of Jim Crow laws.

By: rick

rick — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 20:23:44 +0000

There’s something definitely Orwellian about the phrase, “public defiance of the Prophet”.

By: ltbugaf

ltbugaf — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 20:02:40 +0000

Kim, one of the sinful practices they would need to abstain from is apostasy in the form of public defiance of the Prophet, which they would be doing by being married to a member of the same sex.

By: Kim Siever

Kim Siever — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 19:58:57 +0000

“They can choose not to engage in sinful practices and remain faithful Latter-day Saints.”

Being a faithful Latter-day Saint is not the same as participating fully. That being said, even if there actions were exemplary, the fact of the matter is, that married homosexual couples cannot participate fully in the church. Regardless of whether they have sex or not.

I guarantee you that if two men married each other but never had any sexual relations, their participation in church activity would be very limited.

By: ltbugaf

ltbugaf — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 19:45:08 +0000

I agree that it has nothing to do with being in or out of marriage. Homosexual sex is sinful whether in or out of marriage. Defiance of the Prophet is sinful whether on the topic of same-sex marriage or something else.

I disagree that homosexuals cannot participate fully in the Church. They can. They can choose not to engage in sinful practices and remain faithful Latter-day Saints.