As most ex-Mormons may realize by now, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is semi-isolationist. While it allows its members to operate in the same world as everybody else, it has controls as to how far church members can embrace the outside world, including whom a member can marry. Below is a link to this week's episode on PRI's This American Life. The entire show concerns itself
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When I was younger, my mom used to tell me that I should experience sex at least once with somebody whom I had no emotional feelings towards just to learn the real difference between lust and love. One can put up all this moral crap (and that is just what it is, crap) on the blackboard and memorize these high-minded romantic things, but when it comes right down to it, lust is very much a part of
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Actually, I did know of someone who faked being blind. This was while I was in college, and a friend of mine wanted to see how differently people would treat him if he were blind. So he bought a pair of dark glasses, borrowed one of my canes, and boarded a Los Angeles city bus. About a week later, he returned the cane to me and told me what an interesting experience it had been! He had managed to
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Actually, the U.S. is not as secular as many (including yours truly) would like to think. For one thing, much of our legal code is based on Christian values. True, many states within the past 50 years or so have liberalized laws against cohabitation, but those laws came primarily from the Christian Bible. For another, Christianity is deeply embedded in U.S. culture. How many of you are aware that
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I've thought about that and my guess is no, at least not in the short term. The reason? The Mormon leadership is earning a lot of money with its businesses, especially from those outside of the Mormon church. If the current LDS leadership were to publicly reinstate polygamy, the amount of money earned by their businesses located outside of Utah and the Mormon corridor would decrease drastically.
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The LDS corporation has acted very stupidly with regard to registering its name in Canada. If you think about it, western Canada probably has the most LDS members outside of the western U.S. so the entity should have had its name registered a long time ago in Canada to insure that nobody else used it. But, of course, the church's leadership is U.S.-centric (not surprising, considering where m
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http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/final-ruling-part-utah-polygamy-ban-25153502 My oh my! And the attorney for the family, Jonathan Turley, says he's going to take this all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court if he has to.
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Don't worry! I don't consider your comment to be bigoted in any way. There are really two reasons that blind people are not being taught brail: 1) most blind people are not totally blind and can read large print; and 2) public schools, despite the law, often fail to provide the teaching of braille to their totally blind students.
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When I was living in Tujunga (a Los Angeles suburb) back in the late 1960s and early 1970s and attending the day school for the blind there, my brother and I were always the first ones to be picked up (at about 6:30 in the morning) and the last ones to be dropped off (usually about 5:30 in the evening). This certainly gave us little, if any, time for activities outside of school on week nights.
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As some of the old-timers may know, I am totally blind and I was never a Mormon. My interest in this Board began when I was considering dating a sighted LDS woman who worked with blind people back in 2007. Anyway, I am now posting something from the world I very much know. It's the link to a blog post about this subject that has generated a lot of comments from within the blindness community,
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This is in response to the now-closed thread at http://exmormon.org/phorum/read.php?2,883591 I think it safe to say that as a never-Mormon, I have a very different view of what is happening. First, though, the agreements. I very much agree with the original poster--the way these people are forced to live while performing their jobs is highly irregular and could even be considered a fire
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As promised, below is the link to the Nina Totenberg report for NPR on the Hobby Lobby decision today. http://www.npr.org/2014/06/30/327064710/high-court-allows-some-companies-to-opt-out-contraceptives-mandate
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I just heard Nina Totenberg's report on this issue for NPR and she notes that legal experts are having as much trouble with this decision as the writers on this board. When a written version of her report becomes available, I will post a link to it here. In the meantime, I agree with Markj that this decision has more to do with expanding corporate power than it has to do with sex. And, if yo
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http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/23885-dead-babies-and-utahs-carbon-bomb I would most likely post this as being o/t except that the poobahs referred to in the editorial's title are most likely good and upstanding members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
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One of the things I've written about this Catholic pope elsewhere is that he is not going to change the rules and requirements of Catholic church membership (for example, don't expect to see changes on the Roman church's stand on abortion or female priests). However, he *is* going to change much of the Roman church's style and how it relates to its members, and this story shows exactly that. Of c
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If you want to be really, *really* sure that no Mormon can ever find out what you are reading, take the following steps: 1) Get rid of your computer screen (but keep your computer). 2) Enroll in a class that teaches people how to read braille (you will learn to do it by sight; such classes are offered for those who want to become braille transcribers or proofreaders). 3) Purchase a 20-ce
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Beyond what the posters below say, it should be pointed out that what is considered masculine behavior and what is considered feminine behavior varys from society to society.
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http://thin.npr.org/s.php?sId=294385167&rId=2&x=1 Sorry. My bad.
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This thread is a follow-up to the thread at http://exmormon.org/phorum/read.php?2,1217105,1217105#msg-1217105 Below is the link to Nina Totenberg's report on NPR's All Things Considered about the arguments heard at the U.S. Supreme Court in the Hobby Lobby contraception case yesterday. The subject line (which I took directly from the NPR story) tells it all. Since there are six male and thr
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I have a totally different take on this. According to your original post, both of your wife's parents are in their early 80s. At that age, various diseases have most likely begun to take their toll, and I'd bet even money that your MIL actually forgot you gave her the money; hence the story of being "blessed by the Lard" at the Fast and Testament meeting. What really irks me here
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Heartandsoul: I stumbled across this board back in 2007 while looking up information about the LDS church. I found myself both romantically and physically attracted to the young Mormon lady who partnered with me on the proofreading of the braille versions of the AMES exams used to test grade and high school students in Arizona. Our boss had tried to put us together, but when she asked me about w
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Odell: While I share your concerns, I must make a gentle correction that religious freedoms are protected by the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution (the Second Amendment deals with gun rights).
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This is a follow-up to the "NOW's Dirty 100 List" thread at http://exmormon.org/phorum/read.php?2,1213975,1213975#msg-1213975 Below is a link to the audio and text of the story reported by NPR's Nina Totenberg on today's Morning Edition. http://thin.npr.org/s.php?sId=293956170&rId=3&x=1 While not Mormon specific, I think the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in this case cou
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Tall Man, Short Hair Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I'm not really sure how that argument would go. > The ACA is new law that requires large employers > to provide health care for their employees. Like > many new laws, it will be subjected to challenges > like that from Hobby Lobby to establish the > constitutionality of its various pro
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My understanding is that the chain is owned by a conservative Roman Catholic.
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Citizen Not Logged In: I think that Baura's post above yours makes a very good point. If the U.S. Supreme Court were to decide in favor of Hobby Lobby in this matter, that could open the door to other laws that religious people heading corporations might object to following being challenged, including state laws recognizing homosexual marriage rights and federal laws recognizing the rights of
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Next week the U.S. Supreme Court will be hearing arguments in the case where the Hobby Lobby (a toy store chain) says that its religious rights were violated by the Affordable Care Act's requirement that employers include birth control as part of their required healthcare insurance options. NOW (The National Organization for Women) has compiled a list of the so-called "Dirty 100"--corpo
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Of course, for practicing and ex-Mormons, this is nothing new. However, Bill Maher and the Daily Kos have discovered a pamphlet written by Mark Peterson on the subject, and they are having a field day with it. http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/02/22/1279622/-Mormons-Declare-War-on-Masturbation?detail=email I guess that since Boyd K. "Little Factory" Packer was so successful in en
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As a former Roman Catholic with family members still in the church, I can tell you that when a wedding occurs between a Catholic and a non-Catholic, the full Catholic Mass is not said. Yes, there is a homily (priest's opinion based upon the Scriptural text read), and full marriage vows, including the exchanging of rings, are said. However, there is no Communion, and no Eucharist is handed out. An
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