BritishMormon, your thoughts?

It seems this is part of a trend where Churches (including the Mormon Church) are no longer going to try to organize to block the state from recognizing any same-sex marriages at all (which was the dominant viewpoint 10 years ago) — rather, they’re willing to stand aside and let gay people get married, so long as it isn’t happening under their pews.

It’s a compromise, but it doesn’t sit easily with me. Using religion as a fig leaf to cloak bigotry and to justify discrimination is disgusting, and there’s no sensible reason to carve out exceptions for religions that aren’t available to other kinds of groups and businesses. It gives an excuse to bigots who otherwise don’t have a spiritual bone in their body to cloak themselves in religion, and sully the whole enterprise.

However, I do welcome the idea that religions are no longer trying to force their same-sex marriage beliefs onto others. If you don’t like what the Mormon Church thinks about this, then you can simply leave. And many do.

All that said: Many organized religions are tacking just as hard in the other direction on abortion, telling women who aren’t part of their church and don’t share their beliefs about when life begins that they can’t have one. That idea is getting thrashed in the polls and I expect will continue to be.

Bottom-line: If you don’t want a gay marriage, don’t have one. And if you don’t want an abortion, then don’t get one. But don’t go thumping a Bible at me telling me how to live my life, or you’re gonna have a problem.

There’s a case that Churches who intermingle their sermonizing with politics ought to be taxed. Depends on the circumstances — but the “Church” of Scientology’s tax-exempt status that has let them invest billions into empty real estate that no one uses is a massive joke.

Taxpayers should not be subsidizing hate-cults, no.

It’s not infanticide because fetuses are not infants. The state should take no interest until the fetus is born, because as we see, it interferes intolerably with rape and abuse victims, with women’s healthcare in general, with freedom in general.

Whatever your own personal religion says about it is fine by me. Don’t want an abortion, don’t get one.

Mainstream Mormons are pretty friendly in my experience.

FLDS fundamentalists are a total hate-cult. Anyone out there (any religion) who is preaching the inferiority of minorities, women, and, indeed, homosexuals — same.

I struggle to come up with any good reasons why peddlers of bigotry should receive a taxpayer subsidy. Particularly when groups and organizations meant to fight bigotry are taxed. Seems like shooting ourselves in the foot as a society.

I said, it depends.

I think the FLDS (certainly) as well as individual pastors who have stolen the LDS brand but aren’t really teaching religion should have tax-exempt status revoked.

Same for any other church that is similarly fraudulent. I’d just start with the churches that have housed and covered for known pedophiles.

Scientologists, Mormons, Catholics, Jews, Muslims, any other religion you care to name, my answer would be the same. Harbor pedos and lose your taxpayer-exempt status.

Not hard!

Depends on how high up the child abuse and the knowing-about-it, not-doing-anything goes.

"I could be a Mormon"

Mormon church one step closer to reconciliation with the LGBTIQA+ community

I don't support LGBT ideology but this comment was just a thought, my religion doesn't allow being involved in supporting the LGBTIQA+ community's ideology, but they were created under God's image.

But there's nothing wrong with being Intersex too although Genesis 1:27 does says "So God created human beings in his own image. In the image of God he created them; male and female he created them."

But being intersex was first discovered 1 century BC, but became common in the 1950s. Being intersex is not sinful because it says in 1 Corinthians 7:17 NLT that "Each of you should continue to live in whatever situation the Lord has placed you, and remain as you were when God first called you..."

But this is overall just a reaction about Slobama's post. Don't go out making theories that I support the LGBTIQA+ community, because my religion contradicts the ideology.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/mormon-church-voices-support-for-same-sex-marriage-law/ar-AA149zT9?ocid=entnewsntp&cvid=bd3666a20f354106bab4b4b218119cd9