This link will take you to a You-Tube presentation of a protest being held at BYU and the rules each student had to be willing to comply with in order to participate. You can access the video by clicking the title above.
After watching this video, please return to my site.
I'm taking a poll.
Sign in anonymously or whatever you want. I WILL POST ALL REPLIES TO THIS.
My question is simple:
Agree or Disagree?
Preach if you want to, defend your position (or don't) and I guarantee that I will post ALL replies, pro and con.
I just have to know how many folks out there would side with BYU on this.
Thanks, I will return and report the results in 48 hours.
Sunday, April 22, 2007
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4 comments:
byu went too far
Wow, what a comeback from a supposedly intelligent leader of an educational institution.Obviously not one for public speaking or answering questions was he?
I know I'm way late on this; I just found your blog today and have been obsessively reading your archives. For what it's worth, I'm with the students. That was just ridiculous!
Read on, dear reader. I hope everyone who stops by goes through the archives. I didn't post them there for nothing!!! :>)
It's a shame that I've had 178 posts so far anyway...there shouldn't be that many things to talk about in a church that claims 100% truth.
EVEN IF I could get past all of the history, Joseph's lewd behavior and the magical use of a seer stone to divine the words of the Book of Mormon, I still wouldn't go back, simply for the fact that they deny me the possibility of having my children sealed to me because their father refuses permission. Without that, they will have to wait until they are 18 each in order to choose to be sealed to me and my current spouse. To accomplish this, I have to ladle on the the guilt for years and do my damnedest to make sure they swallow this doctrine hook, line and sinker, so that they are convinced their salvation in the afterlife depends on being sealed to me in this one.
Perhaps I'm just being lazy, but I think I have better things to do in this mortal realm than be a constant source of nagging and bitching at my kids because they don't want to be with me in the CK. The church has failed to demonstrate their fanciful claims, they have failed to provide any evidence other than warm-fuzzies of togetherness whenever we congregate and congratulate ourselves on finding the "one true church". It's not enough motivation for me to come back.
Maybe if they hadn't been so chauvinistic in the first place, and allowed a mom to have her kids sealed to her without a "head of household" male, then I wouldn't have needed to know what the history was behind such a policy and I wouldn't have discovered the origins of polygamy and the "true order of heaven".
Not being able to have my kids sealed to me was the same thing as being childless in Mormonism. Everything you do is for nothing, because you can't claim 'eternal family status' even after you yourself have jumped through all the flaming hoops and went through for your own ordinances. Being told, "Oh, surely the Lord knows your intentions, he'll have it all sorted out in the end", gave me permission to take myself off the hook and realize that if this is so, then the Mormon church doesn't mean a thing.
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