Posted by:
DNA
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Date: October 15, 2010 03:20PM
I had a family member, and a "friend" post a like link to the PR statement in response to the petition about Packer.
I was going to respond, but then decided that doing that to a family member would really get them into shunning mode. So I didn't.
Then I read one of his friends responses: "It'll be interesting to see the responses to this. Amazingly, those who decried the original message are mute as of yet."
That was it, I decided I wasn't going to sit on it, and this is how I responded. Let the shunning begin.
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I wondered if it would be wise to comment, and thought it may not be. Then Dallin made me think that perhaps I should voice my thoughts.
I've Got to wonder if they really had their heart in what was said.
In the church's own publication called "To The One", Pres Packer refers to gays using these words.
unnatural, bad habit, enslavement, twisted, afflicted, deviation, indulgence, destructive, abnormal; it is an affliction, immoral, It is a transgression, condemned, misled, perversion, correctable, disorder, ugly, indulgence, Pervert, devilishly bad, dangerous, deluded, predator, addiction, sad, selfish, very sick, brutal, enslavement
I have a hard time reconciling the PR statement, with the published pamphlet that was directly printed for gay people to read (To the one refers to Pres Packer's assertion that only 1 in 100 are gay, and the pamphlet was directed at that one gay person).
I'm left with what Pres Packer directly says to Gay's himself, and what the PR dept comes out with, and trying to decide whether it's Packer or the PR guys that more accurately portray the real attitude.
It's easier to think that Pres Packer might have misspoke during his speech, and needed to make clarification in the printed version, than it is to think that a carefully worded pamphlet that was printed for years was wrong.
If I had a Gay family member, I'd hope they only heard the PR statement, not the type of wording and characterization of the pamphlet.