Posted by:
CrispingPin
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Date: April 04, 2019 09:17PM
There is no doubt that TSCC would like to distance itself from the steaming pile of excrement that is the 2015 “revelation” on same sex couples that was added to the Church Handbook of Instructions. I’m sure the geriatrics at the helm of Good Ship (FKA) Mormon would love it if everyone would just forget the mess. The problem (for them) is that a “prophet, seer, and revelator” (who has since become president of the church) declared that it came directly from God.
It won’t be long (if it hasn’t happened already) that when forced to confront the issue, apologists will try to dismiss it as “simply a policy” that was implemented by imperfect men.
I’ve heard it said that trying to pin down LDS doctrine is much like nailing Jello to a tree, but if something that comes directly from God isn’t doctrine, what in heaven (pun intended) is doctrine?
They have used this shell game before. When it came to blacks and the priesthood, an official statement from the first presidency in 1949 said “The attitude of the Church with reference to the Negroes remains as it has always stood. It is not a matter of the declaration of a policy but of direct commandment from the Lord.” The statement goes on to justify the ban by blaming those “cursed” with black skin for their conduct in the premortal existence. Compare that to the essay “Race and the Priesthood,” which states in “February 1852, Brigham Young announced a policy restricting men of black African descent from priesthood ordination.” In 1949, they made a point of the fact that it was NOT a policy, but somehow it became one.
I suppose that once doctrine (received directly from God) becomes embarrassing to the church, it transforms into an abandoned "policy."