Belated b-day hug from me too, Raptor J! Hope you have a great year :D
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Well my temple slippers made their dramatic debut on stage in a show I was in! In April, I was in the musical "Titanic", performed to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the ship's sinking. I was one of the 1st class passenger leads who had to wear a nightgown and slippers for the 2nd act when the ship goes down, and the white granny temple slips were the perfect early 20th century a
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I just noticed this thread too: http://exmormon.org/phorum/read.php?2,531588 with the Huffpost article about the parents with a gay son. Strykary, you linked the same FAP booklet I did. Would the old bastards (LOL we both called them that) really try to get away with letting the cult take credit for the booklet? I know they're shameless :O
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Sorry to add yet another thread on the topic, but the web has just exploded with posts & articles on the subject lately. Just today I came across several: http://fablog.ehrensteinland.com/2012/06/13/hello/ (the blogger asks right off the bat: Surely the Latter day Saints are not in dispute.....or are they? Followed by TONS of great links) http://www.slate.com/articles/life/faithbased/2012
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Ugh, that's disgusting Once More! I don't have time to read the link just now, but I'll bookmark it and save it.
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Thanks nolongerin! I bookmarked this one, and I'll probably share it on FB too. Excellent points raised in the article.
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I'm with bc & xyz. The old coots can sit back and bask in the reflected glow and warm fuzzies provided by the members who marched in the parade and made the cult look welcoming and supportive. I don't doubt that there are many members who are genuinely starting to come around on this issue, but the old bigots at the COB fight progress tooth & nail until they've run out of every other poss
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n/t
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Yep, LD$ Inc is busy hob-nobbing with other fear-mongers at the "World Congress of (only the 'right' kinds of) Families". http://www.lds.org/church/news/traditional-family-championed-at-world-congress?lang=eng "Elder Erich W. Kopischke of the Seventy addressed the audience at the opening plenary session of the congress. He was introduced by Sister Mary Ellen Smoot, former Relie
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LOL these are great! This one hits very close to home for me; my only living family members left by the time I married my TBM ex were my mother & grandmother; neither of them were "worthy" to enter the so-called "House of the Lord" in their soiled, non-Member status, so they were literally shut out of the most important event (up to that time) in their daughter/grand-daugh
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I can think of NO other religion that has such naive, clueless, amusingly pathetic, sexually-unaware-to-a-literally-dangerous level ADULTS, as the Mormon cult. Normally I'd think somebody was bullsh!tting you Raptor J, but given the infantile state of most TBMs, I believe you. I'm laughing, but in an utterly creeped out way. Modern Mormonism, in an emasculated "nut"shell. (sorry,
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Very interesting indeed! Thanks for the link; I've bookmarked it.
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Just noticed one of my FB friends posted this video: http://video.msnbc.msn.com/melissa-harris-perry/47748085 (Brigham Young University professor Spencer Fluhman, Religious Dispatches Joanna Brooks, and Columbia University professor Dorian Warren sift through the facts and misconceptions of the Mormon Church.) My friend stated that Spencer Fluhman is her bishop; apparently he also wrote the r
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I never paid much attention to this before, but a message showed up on the RS email list I'm still covertly part of, and it made me wonder. I live in a California university town, and we always get an influx of people moving here in the summer, looking for rentals. This year is no exception, and this particular request came via the RS grapevine: "Bishop 'L' received a call from Sister So
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Thanks so much for posting these pics, they're wonderful! Ditto on the Temple Squares ;P
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Amen sister! :D
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LMAO @forbiddencokedrinker!! That is genious!!
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Gah!! Now I need eye bleach :O
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I'll bookmark this so I can watch it later. You get used to horror-stories and injustice at RfM, but that is just SO sickening. LD$ Inc is one effed up bunch, that's all I can say.
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Okay, I had the Mormons-Gay Pride thing on my mind when I went to sleep last night. I actually dreamt about it. Boyd KKK was seated on his General Conference "throne" on top of a float cruising down the parade route. He had his usual prune face and looked like death warmed over, but I kid you not, he was throwing Mardi Gras beads left and right to the crowd. If I could only have capture
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http://www.ldsliving.com/story/68975-poll-sandals-in-church I saw this yesterday, and I just had to vote. I couldn't believe the results: the sheeple, in particular the women, are as brainwashed and manipulated as they've ever been. I'd love to see some reality penetrate the blind bat-sh*t obedience, so if you've got the time and inclination, take a moment to skew the vote! Oh, and make sure t
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I'm so sorry sweetie. Sending you loving thoughts and a big huge virtual hug. I hope you can get yourself mentally and physically in a healthy place and work through this. We love you!!
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There have been a number of funerals at the ward in my town. Several ladies, all of them longtime members of the community and ward, passed away at an advanced age around the same time. They were genuinely good people and I was genuinely sorry to hear of their passing, but given their health and circumstances, it was time to move on. Getting to the main point, the RS president sent out a letter
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Well Sactown folks, looks I won't be able to make it to the meetup after all :- / Hope y'all have a great time; please return & report!
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LOL thanks guys. Yes I'm very vaguely familiar with the old dusting off the shoes stories of the early Mormon missionaries; it has a very similar feel to it. I know there were all kinds of emotional stories when the tornado hit Joplin; understandable, considering the circumstances, but when Mormons start sharing warm fuzzies, my BS detector lights up. Plus my google search turned up absolutel
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I saw it in one of the numerous articles that have been popping up everywhere lately on Romney/TSCC. Can't remember which one off the top of my head. And I also can't remember whether it was Romney himself who used the term, or if he was referred to as a "pastor" by the author of the article. In any case, the use of the word "pastor" is a deliberate way to mainstream both Romn
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So my son tells me his seminary teacher shared a story about the missionaries in Missouri. Perhaps his teacher was related to a missionary that was serving there; I'm not sure of the connection, but getting back to the story. The missionaries in a particular area had been tracting, as they are forced to do, no matter what. Every place they went, door after door remained firmly shut, no matter wha
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Many months before I was actually ready to take the step of officially resigning, I was lurking here frequently to read the posts. I don't remember exactly when I came across RfM, or what particular issue/incident brought me here. I do remember the shock of seeing things that I had considered "sacred" for so many years being openly discussed (and frequently mocked). That can be an initi
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If you think you can stomach it: http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865554419/Prince-Charles-and-the-Book-of-Mormon.html Pathetically sad, humorous, infuriating, and more than anything else, such an utter waste. You KNOW what Prince Charles was thinking but not saying to this poor deluded kid. And you KNOW you want to bitchslap the douchebag ward mission leader; the way he's described in this
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good points, Mia
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