Comments on: Are Right-Wing Mormons More Likely to be Annoying than Left-Wing Mormons?

By: Richard

Richard — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 02:36:58 +0000

All you had to do read the lds pro and con sides of Prop 8 to see that both are equally annoying.

By: gst

gst — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 01:45:30 +0000

Sorry

By: gst

gst — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 01:41:20 +0000

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By: Greg J

Greg J — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 06:54:41 +0000

What I find obnoxious are the muttered, yet discernible phrases spoken during a lesson that the mutterer believes reinforces a certain political view or demonstrates how a certain politician is evil reincarnate.

I’ve found in a certainly unscientific record the mutterers are extremely conservative.

By: jimbob

jimbob — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:36:16 +0000

“Conservative Mormons think Max Hall is Edward.”

Well I think that Jacob is classless, that his fans are classless, and that his wolf pack is classless.

By: H.Bob

H.Bob — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:05:30 +0000

You know, for every Liberal Mormon who rejects the position on gay marriage, which rejects the Proclamation on the Family, which rejects the counsel of the prophet (which lived in the house that Jack built), I could raise you a Conservative Mormon who, by agreeing with and defending the Bush Doctrine of preemptive war, rejects D&C 98. Which is more annoying? Whoever’s most sanctimonious about why they’re going with the political answer rather than the doctrinal one.

By: queuno

queuno — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 20:57:11 +0000

Conservative Mormons forget that there is an entire world of members who live outside Utah or the USA, who don’t even know what Republicans or Democrats are…

By: queuno

queuno — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 20:53:14 +0000

1. Liberal Mormons are those who use the Word of Wisdom to justify their vegetarianism, and who hate BYU.

2. Conservative Mormons think Max Hall is Edward.

By: BobW

BobW — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 18:49:02 +0000

Did some one make this comment already?

This statement is necessary but not sufficient to define annoying:

2. Mormon Joe must have at least prima facie grounds for convincing himself that his political views are mandated by LDS doctrine.

In order to be truely annoying, Mormon Joe must think that anyone who disagrees with him is in opposition to God and should be cast out or excoriated.

There are plenty of lefties who read socialism into the D&C and the New Testament but who do not condemn to hell all those who do not believe in socialism. However there are many righties, including bishops and stake presidents, ready to excommunicate the prop 8 disbelievers.

By: DavidH

DavidH — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:22:23 +0000

“To reject the position on gay marriage is to reject the Proclamation on the Family, which is to reject the counsel of the Prophet.”

I am not a proponent of same sex marriage.

I realize that those who oppose same sex marriage can find implicit support in the Proclamation on the Family. But I do not see that governmental recognition of same sex marriage (or civil unions or domestic partnerships) is explicitly addressed in the Proclamation.

The only statement with respect to governmental matters is the last sentence, as follows: “We call upon responsible citizens and officers of government everywhere to promote those measures designed to maintain and strengthen the family as the fundamental unit of society.”

While the Brethren have decreed, outside of the Proclamation, that governmental recognition of same sex marriage would not strengthen, or would weaken, heterosexual marriage and family, the Proclamation itself does not state that.

If the Brethren were to reverse the opposition to same sex marriage, it would not be difficult to reconcile the change with the Proclamation.