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We can have any opinion we want. What we cannot do and keep our membership after we've been told by our bishop to quit teaching something wrongly, is to continue preaching and teaching it. That's simple. No member can preach against what is officially taught and keep their membership. And the church really has no choice but to withdraw membership if they refuse to stop teaching false information. If the Church leadership did not take such action others might be lead astray. I'm sorry for the woman and her family. And I get how women may object to the plural marriage construct theologically. But what needs to be done, just needs to be done.

No I think He loves you and He knows what you believe now and what you wanted for your child. I don't think there is anything in our doctrine and belief that suggest mortals who are not members of His church are punished for not making sure they do or make sure someone does do the required ordinances available only within the Gospel of Jesus Christ. [As I write this I do find myself thinking a believing parent who failed to see too it could under conditions that were more than didn't get around to it would at least make Them very sad.]

At some point in the earthly journey through life someone will perform his ordinances (and yours) so that you can choose to accept it. That is true for him and for you. We do that for everyone, without knowing whether or not those for whom the work is done will or will not have the chance to accept it for themselves THEN. If what we teach is truth, it will matter. So while my own faith position would be yes, please do agree and provide the approval in writing, if you decide you don't want that for him, you will not be dooming him. Eventually someone will do it for him with or without your knowledge/consent. When I'm hurting lots, I find comfort in the last four verses of "How Firm a Foundation" which we don't sing often, and D&c 122:7-8. I'll prayer for you and your son's mother and siblings and other family.

Mozilla has worked to protect the privacy of consumers for a long time. People might want to look at its material on keeping their privacy. I use Mozilla as my main access to the internet for that reason.

New offenses in the midwest, apparently arrested upon arrival in SLC over the weekend and now returned/returning to the state where the offenses occurred. What a shame he didn't learn his lesson 20 years or so, instead of continuing or returning to what sounds like multiple new wrongful behaviors.

I would say that we don't commonly use "concubines" and frankly we don't know or care about how it was done in scriptural times, so why not discuss it the way we do now. And do we have any modern scripture saying why Joseph and the some of the saints had polygamous wives?

Thanks.

Isn't their struggle that they don't understand we have a Heavenly Mother? who is equal with Heavenly Father, parents of Jesus Christ and all of us?

He was mortal, on earth. (And it is a safe bet that Mary Magdalene was his wife, as that is the only reasonable explanation for why He visited her first after His resurrection.) We don't read of children, but that just could be because the marriage wasn't very public either, and let's face it: He travelled a lot.

Mormon compiled the Book of Mormon AFTER he received a vision of our day. That doesn't say to me that Mormon did things on his own. It is the vision he was given that dictated what is in the Book of Mormon (though of course there remains the question of how much detail he was inspired with).

At 10/14 8:45 it worked as it has normally, for me.

Has been since Saturday and still is 10/14/ 5:14 PM EDT.

Neither the Australian nor New Zealand ones have been called arson yet, or even any sort of hate. Let's not call them a string until or unless they are. Also, Church facility leaders sent out a memo more than a week ago asking every building to do a thorough review of security and safety. I won't be surprised if many of us have a fifth Sunday "evacuation" practice at some point. I don't know whether any chapels chose not to follow the safety building codes (because being a church exempted them from them, in areas where that is done), but those that did may need to do some rehab. We don't need to be scared, just prepared in a way we haven't thought of before. It will be okay. ETA: The official advise emphasized this week by our leaders: https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/tools/help/church-security-resources?lang=eng

The funniest part of this is that if Mr. Ballard, acknowledged his wrongful acts and genuinely attempted to repair the harm he has caused and didn't cause any further harm, in a year or so, he could start relatively unscathed in new good works (though probably not in child sexual abuse area). Pride always trips people up and prolongs the harm from the inside.

Not for the subject matter, but for not giving Ballard more visibility (and on general principle that it doesn't belong in the federal jurisdiction, outside of what is already in statute). (Not to mention the AL law extends the punishment, which has limited impact on perps generally and I don't see our leaders having any appetite to get into the weeds about legal mortal punishments.)

I don't know anything about the facts here new from what we learned months ago. But a campaign to stop a federal law that the church determined to be wrong or unnecessary (we really don't think that the federal government (or the state governments collectively) are insufficiently able to hold perps accountable without new laws?), could in today's world cost $10 million, especially with need to make sure that everyone in the political law making arena knows that the Mr. Ballard doesn't in any way represent the Church.

How do you know that is why Elder Uchtdorf returned to the quorum? I'm seen a lot of "this is just what the spirit tells me to do" without anything having to be a pejorative about the person released or added.

If it adheres to recent behavior, it will include Elder Holland who is next in line for Presidency. It's been several presidencies ago when one of the prophets spoke about how hard it is to be put in that position without some experience. The challenge is that neither Elder Holland nor next in line Elder Eyring (who has also had presidency training already) can travel because of their health. And First Presidency travel is important in our world where half of our members live outside the US. Elder Uchtdorf is next but he already has had some training in the Presidency. Did you notice that they had to go deep to Elder Bednar for the Michigan shooting/fire response?

He said he was going to do it, left a note to that effect at home and told his roomie where to find it. The gun belonged to his grandfather. He has been shooting it for years. He admitted he did it. Of course in our world people claim conspiracies. I'm inclined when something walks like a duck, talks like a duck, looks like a duck, to believe it is a duck.

It will never cease to amaze me how and why people desire to control the entire world and every one in it, but only if they get to choose what is okay or not. Can't help but wonder how our world could be better by teaching truth without putting down those who don't recognize truth at the moment.

No one has to tell parents: when someone has their names removed, they are no longer connected as children to their parents in their parents records in LDS Tools. They are no longer sealed to their parents. That isn't an inheritance thing. It is a brokenhearted thing. (Maybe also if you are so short sighted in this then we have a hard time thinking that more money is going to be spent in any good way.) (And I tend to think pretty silly anyway if you really don't believe in the truth claims then why do you care what church records say or don't say).

Just wondering whether things are improving for your area. Thinking of you and the area challenges.

The Lord's belonging is valid baptism. And a member who hasn't attended a single church meeting for 75 years, remains a member with access to the gift of the Holy Ghost. Why do mortals think they are entitled to exclude members on criteria that God doesn't use?

Because the act of seeking and trying helps us become like Him. Anything else suggests that we believe there is only one right way to do His will and I'm not persuaded of that idea.