...or "sex abuse + LDS"

Regarding the sealing of a Mormon couple for all eternity:

If you change your mind, you just apply for a "cancellation of sealing" and it comes back approved from Salt Lake City in about two weeks.

Hmmm, I thought many of the Plains Indians practiced polygamy? And they were here long before the Mormans ever settled the west.

And while no one has a lower opinion of Mitt Romney than I do, what do the "sins" of his father have to do with anything?

There are plenty of reasons to not like Mitt, but religious bigotry isn't one of them.

Well said!

I happen to live about 50 miles north a hot bed of religious intolerance: Colorado Springs, home of, among others lunatics, James Dobson and his Focus On The Family cult.

About once a month I see a car with a bumper sticker that says: Focus On Your Own Damn Family!

I get the urge to pull that car over and buy that person a beer.

Someone wise once said: All religion is just crowd control.

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"...maybe we should just cut to the chase and elect some real religious zealots as President and VP."
Isn't that what we have with Bush? Cheney is just some evil bastard, but Bush probably believes that AIDS is God's punishment and the Armageddon and prayer in school and guns for eveyone and the expansion of Capital punishment, etc.

Maybe we should all cut to the chase and put guns to our forebrains, rather than waiting for television to lobotomize us.

What are "sheets?"

"Breaking up the families" may be necessary to save the children who are at this stage completely brainwashed.

See M.S. Bellows, Jr.'s Profile

If they were merely polygamists, I wouldn't really have a problem with them. (As my wife once joked with friends when the idea of hiring a young blonde Swedish au pair was brought up, "It's OK, so long as she sleeps with my husband and takes care of all my chores"). But this sect raises women to believe that their primary function on Earth is to have, quite literally, as many children as possible; that they must be married and become pregnant as soon as they start menstruating; and that it's better in God's eyes to die in childbirth than to commit the sin of having fewer children. (Mormonism teaches that souls in heaven need bodies on Earth, and so encourages people to have large families; this sect takes that preference and makes it a rigid commandment.) And those 12, 13, 14 y.o. girls are married to much older men (30s, 40s, 50s), not to boys their own age -- so the adult men have all the wives, and the boys generally get squeezed out of the community once they become competition.

So there are destroyed young girls, and lost young boys, and this cult is just as bad as any other child molesters and rapists -- even worse, maybe, because they're doing it in God's name, and brainwashing innocent children into thinking God is the kind of being who really wants things like this. They leave the kids nothing -- not even a faith they could fall back on.

Noting is as foolish as another man's religion.

".... Once again religions poison the mind of man." dsm

You're absolutely right DSM. I am absolutely disgusted with this cult. The parent's that did this to children should all be put in prison. In fact, if everyone were to 'really read' the bible, Y'shua ben Yosef (Jesus) and his Gnostics (diciples) were not trying to start a religion at all. Thanks to U of NC Religious Studies findings and publications- there is real evidence of what actually happened. He was not asked to join the Gnostics because he was close with the Roman's... so we got HIS story (history). http://www.unc.edu/depts/rel_stud/about/publications.shtml Religion as we know it today is a sham- to make money and have sex with young girl's and boys, according to the Mormons and the Catholics! Oh... and let's not forget the President Bush's religious adviser, Ted Haggert- who would scream that Homosexuality was a HUGE sin.. but smoking Meth and fornicating with young men in public washrooms is OK. Even our supposed Christian, God fearing President Clinton would have his assistant pick up the young girl's that he would point out at the caucus' for Oval fornication.
This kind of thing parallels the rapings in Africa of young girl's, Romanian soldiers forcing young girl's to live in old motel's for sex, Asian parents barter to pay their bills with baby daughters.
Misuse of children has to stop on this planet. Barb Heiam- Bjornsen in Tahoe

Thank you.

One of our fundamental documents is the thirteen Articles of Faith.

Number 11 states...

"We claim the privilege of worshiping Almighty God according to the dictates of our own conscience, and allow all men the same privilege, let them worship how, where, or what they may."

The state has a responsibility to intervene in cases of illegality, especially as it relates to abuse of minors. But I grant everyone the right to believe how they see fit without prejudice.

Do you have the word "Pedophilia" in your revised Mormon Dictionary, or was that left out too?

How about a religion that practices human sacrifice? You cool with that too?