I am sure that, given the current POTUS run-ins with civil rights laws as a private citizen, that Mr. Fallwell Jr.'s views will feel right at home in the administration.
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I was considering not replying because this whole subject is fraught with emotions, but I have decided differently so here goes: 1) My mom, who is as Caucasian as I am, was once turned down for a preschool assistant's job at a school for the blind in California because she wasn't black. She resents that to this day. 2) While I think that it can safely be said that African-americans and Lati
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Reading both the comments of the OP and the subsequent comments from others, I think that a lot of you are taking a lot of things for granted. The assumption that having a positive attitude equals having a successful life is a very faulty assumption at best. Also, believing that I am successful because I did everything from my own initiative without assistance from anybody else or even society at
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I fully concur with your analysis. Bringing this back to Mormonism, while we often talk about Joseph Smith's being a child sex predator, if he had just married Helen Mar Kimball, say, that marriage would have been considered legal, despite the fact that she was only 14 at the time. In other words, while the average age of marriage for women during the 1830s and 1840s was about 20 or 21, men could
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I basically agree with the article's authors--the situation is more complex than meets the eye. People will believe the portions of the sciences that don't conflict with 1) their personal and religious beliefs; 2) how they earn money; and 3) the beliefs of others around them. Regarding the last point, the sciences have shown that we humans are social animals, and, for the most part, we are willin
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After being a poster since 2007 and reading about the behavior of Joseph Smith and other founders of Mormonism, I had assumed that child marriages in the U.S. were illegal in every state, except possibly Utah and Idaho. I was wrong! http://www.npr.org/2017/06/11/532457876/advocates-work-to-end-child-marriage-in-the-u-s According to the second interview aired on today's Weekend Edition Su
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From the anti-abortion perspective (which I was at one time), the question of when life begins is at the very heart of the abortion issue. It is also at the heart of Roe vs. Wade and why abortions are not covered legally (for the most part) during the third trimester. What the SCOTUS has ruled in the past is that a fetus can be considered a human life if it can live and breathe outside of its mot
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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints doesn't want people looking at it it to realize that the devil is always in the details. The vast majority of other Christian churches do not accept any scriptures outside of the Bible so having a Mormon freshman "read the Bible and other Scriptures" is a flag to them that Mormons are not wholly Christian.
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http://www.npr.org/2017/06/02/531173464/pregnant-student-barred-from-graduation-at-md-christian-school A whole lot of anti-abortion groups are opposed to the decision made by the school's principal, according to the story. One of the few people who publicly supports the decision said that "Her premarital pregnancy should have consequences." I hate to point this out, but teenagers eng
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It was an album that was very much ahead of its time--and it was all done using only 4 tracks! Musically, my favorite tracks are "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds," and "Lovely Rita." Lyrically, the best track is probably "Within You, Without You," written by George Harrison (his only contribution to that album). As the late John Lennon told Playboy shortly before his u
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What a preventable tragedy! The horrible thing is that until people learn to trust the sciences more than religion, you are going to have stories like this one (and worse) popping up from time to time.
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As a former Roman Catholic, I am very convinced that those in the top echelons of my old religion really believe, even as the evidence is stacked up against them. And, for the record, unlike most other posters here, I'm afraid that the Mormon hierarchy very much believes its story, despite all of the evidence against it. With regard to the Protestants and fundamentalists, I think it is a very mix
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I suspect that this article was intended for doubting Mormons, not for those who have already left. I remember going up to my niece's wedding in Salt Lake City in 2011 and hearing during the evening over the now-defunct oldies channel at 1060 kHz (it's Radio China International today) a plea asking people to hold on to their Mormon beliefs. While the exodus is slow, the numbers looking for the ex
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The war, if you can call it that, is over who determines and interprets the laws under which we live: the superstitious or those who believe in reasoning and the sciences.
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Though they were best known for some of their album tracks, the only two Allman Brothers songs that reached the top 40 singles charts were "Ramblin' Man," (#2, October 1973) and "Crazy Love," (#21, May 1979). In addition, Gregg reached the U.S. top 40 as a solo act covering a song that the Allman Brothers recorded on their first album ("Midnight Rider.") "Cro
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While the initial thread at http://exmormon.org/phorum/read.php?2,1963501 was open at the time of this writing, I thought it might be close to being closed. As a totally blind person with an MBA and who has flown on United and other airlines in the past, I do have some relevant comments. First, as pointed out in one of my marketing classes, airlines routinely overbook. The reason? An uns
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Cheryl: Thank you for your response. While I also cannot generalize all situations, it does suggest that these people, perhaps more truly than their able-bodied counterparts, may well be in a trap from which there is little, if any opportunity, to escape.
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Now for my responses. 1) While it is true that some debates about ideas are allowed in the college classroom, these debates have not, to my knowledge, been extended to the elementary and secondary schools discussed in the original thread. While I graduated from high school some 36 years ago, I can assure you that debating what the teachers said was not allowed in any of the four types of schoo
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In a now-closed thread, Tall Man, Short Hair made the response. I will place my response to him in my next message. "The idea of a truly liberal education is to have the freedom to openly address ideas and allow students to engage them logically and based upon evidence. If you read the text of the Texas law, you'll note that advocacy is not part of the regimen. It's simply allowing dis
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As a person who has been blind for his entire life, I'm wondering how physically disabled children of polygamous unions are treated. Are they placed on a pedestal and spoiled? Are they considered to be worthless and neglected? Is the treatment of these people a combination of these two (albeit conflicting) extremes or are there any other ways of treating disabled children in such unions I have no
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True. But the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, more than any other single religious group in the U.S., controls the laws of a single state (Utah) with regard to how homosexual youth are to be treated.
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If LDS women were ever allowed to become priests, the only one I know of who I think would be allowed to go further up the ladder would be ScherrieDew (not sure of spelling). And, from everything I've read about her, plus listening to an interview with her after the last LDS "prophet" died, I'm not convinced that she would be very supportive of other members of her gender. Regarding
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As a nation, we are going backwards in terms of both our science training and how we think about the sciences. Both the article linked to and the editorial comments of the OP highlight this point.
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There aren't many from the first generation of rock and rollers that are still with us. On the top of the list would be Fats Domino, Little Richard, and Jerry Lee Lewis. Lower down would be Frankie Avalon, Fabian, and Lloyd Price. At the bottom (because they aren't really rock and roll) would be Pat Boone and Johnny Mathis (who did a concert tour in 2015). I would also suggest that the lack o
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As NPR has now reported his death, you are quite correct--and my first response stands as true.
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Though I'm a day late (and a dollar short--oops! that's another story for another time), happy St. Paddy's Day to you, too!
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Chuck Berry's death appears to be an Internet hoax. http://en.mediamass.net/people/chuck-berry/deathhoax.html I should have checked that before writing my previous response.
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According to the radio station surveys for Salt Lake City radio station KCPX at http://www.las-solanas.com/arsa/stations_item.php?&lttl=1&srt1=tsc_prs DESC&vqry=kcpx&lidx=0&rsid=108 Chuck Berry's biggest hit, the #1 cover of Dave Bartholemew's "My Ding-a-ling," never charted at KCPX. The suspected reason? The song appeared to endorse mastaurbation. Chuck, r
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anonuk Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > what about far left extremism? Those tolerant > people who behave so intolerantly towards anyone > who disagrees with them that they slash tyres, > burn cars and break windows, sometimes with the > object of their ire behind the windows? I'm not > just talking organised protesters here, I am > t
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I was struck by this sentence from the article: "According to ABC, the Spanish government in effect blocked the nondiscretionary procedure to avoid mass immigration by an estimated 30 million non-Jewish descendants of Sephardim eligible under the law." In effect, "We'll pardon you, but your numbers are so great that allowing all of your descendants would change the character
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