It is an ugly dirty filthy practice that must be punished severely. And the only way to be properly punished is to be married and have lots and lots of children.
Tea Wrecks Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > It's only dirty and filthy if it's being done > correctly. otherwise it serves no useful purpose
Also in my church married couples are allowed to keep 10% of their earnings they just send me the remaining 90%.In this way they aren't burdened with tithing.
Being a bishop must be so much fun. My experiences with bishop roulette have led me to two angry ex boyfriends, raging depression and extensive therapy. :)
I like the term "Bishop roulette". My first experience was at 12 and becoming a "Deacon" and meeting privately with the Bishop. He started lecturing me, which had me confused until I realized he was talking about masturbation. It honestly scared me. Do you think my mother asked about what we talked about? No and I would have never mentioned it to my father as he would have punched out the Bishop. Unsupervised visits with a 12 year old? Wow
The church is both fascinated and horrified by sex. Sex is at the base of almost all they teach. Yes, have sex and lots of it, but only with your "eternal companion." That's acceptable, even by some mainstream people and other churches. "The Brethren" really react badly to sex they don't agree with. Premarital sex is next only to murder in seriousness. Masturbation is next only to murder in seriousness. Extra-marital affairs are next only to murder in seriousness. Oral sex was so bad that travelling "Brethren" would sometimes hold special, secret firesides with adults in the ward or stake, just to pass the word that they found oral sex repugnant.
But there was money in some of it: A girl who became pregnant "out of wedlock," as they say, was faced with giving up the baby to LDS Social Services, who would "find a home for the baby with a good LDS family," or would face probably excommunication. If she didn't comply with that, or even worse, gave it up to a generic adoption agency, the girl faced excommunication. Was it because the church charged an alleged $40,000 per child? Yeah, I think probably.*
*People alleged long ago that the LDS church was essentially just selling children, rather than running a proper adoption program. Free money. According to SLTrib article a couple of years ago, the church had received so much flak, that they had agreed to no longer sell babies, and had quit or would quit the adoption scheme entirely. I have no idea if they actually did it. Does anyone have any newer information?
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