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@SupplyGuy66 I mean, it's clearly false doctrine.

@LDSLaw It's either God's church and led by Him or it isn't. You either have a testimony or you don't. I'll tell you that I'm happy to see some of the ridiculous teachings like masturbation leads to homosexuality go away.

An LDS 𝕏 post. Over the past few years, I keep encountering a repetitive refrain from many fellow members of the Church. Many of you have a deep, abiding concern that can probably be summarized this way: The Church is slowly being eaten by a cancerous element of niceness/tolerance/progressive messaging. Doctrines are being softly effaced. Prior teachings are being abandoned. The Church is embracing a kind of globalist, liberal ethos and is soft-pedaling any and all of the former "line in the sand" teachings of the recent past. The prophets/apostles are not teaching clear doctrines because many of their messages can be ambiguous or interpreted in conflicting ways. Because of this, it won't be long before the Church has totally drifted off course and becomes no different than any of the other church in the world that have embraced progressive value systems. Gay marriage sealings are just around the corner. Does that accurately reflect the feelings that many of you folks have?

Yes. And anyone who has pondered these issues longer than a few minutes intuitively understands that great virtues, such as tolerance, respect, & love, can be transmogrified into vices, or even weaponized when isolated and when they become ends in themselves.

@Deseret @JamesMartinSJ I'm pretty sure Abraham Lincoln prayed for God to help him win the Civil War.

The Danger of thinking, "God Is on Our Side" "I just don't think that's the Christian God." @JamesMartinSJ sits down with Jane Clayson Johnson on the “Deseret Voices” podcast to talk about the troubling implications of nationalistic prayer and why a God of peace cannot be used to will the destruction of the "other side" in global conflict.

@PopePiusXIIStan So many of you folks are deeply negative about the current state of the Church. It seems to be a common refrain.

@LDSLaw If the church used Roberts’ sevenths course in theology as the Sunday school manuals as they used to…I would feel much better about the future of the church

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@LDSLaw Well, that was disappointing! I should know better than to answer questions as if my name were John Dehlin!! 😂

This really does fit me to a T.

Florida to California via the Moon is a domestic flight until another country proves otherwise

@ThisMomSaid Lol. Yeah. Whew.

@LDSLaw Ummmmm I’m not okay

Well crap. I'm afraid to look in the mirror myself.

@Next50Years I'm this guy

If X were high school, I think I’m the kid that eats lunch in the library … and pokes his head out every once in a while to say something unexpectedly clever and funny…

I think people are crazy to react the way they did. My views would be the same even if my wife wasn't pursuing an advanced professional degree. But here, it's easier because I am, in fact, living it. I just think folks are hypersensitive to perceived doctrinal drift, which I understand. But this isn't it.

@LDSLaw not from you. I was actually surprised you sided with the pro post crowd and then remembered your doing a lot more for your wife currently

With a deep and abiding love in my heart for all of you, I respectfully submit, It is time for you guys to get a grip.

@MissRed_Roses Who me?

@LDSLaw I'm genuinely surprised at what I've seen on here.

@xyathon So what do you want ME to do about it? That's the real question. I can't fix gays or gay advocacy. Especially since we live in a country where folks are allowed to advocate for shit. Seriously, what is your proposed solution? We live in the last days.

@LDSLaw I’ll take you at to your word. The amount of gay couples doing this is capped at 5. There aren’t groups committed to enacting LDS doctrinal change: Affirmation LGBTQ Mormons, Families & Friends Human Rights Campaign Equality Utah North Star Saints Lift + Love Listen, Learn & Love

Agreed. I really think folks have totally lost the script. We're not Amish. We're not fundamentalists. We're not supposed to be extremists. I don't get it.

@UteChap Smug? That's interesting. Well thanks for sharing, I guess.

@LDSLaw This is tough. I tend to agree with you on most things but your smug tweets for the last while just aren’t doing what I think you think they are.

There's more to life than mere logic. I happen to believe that God exists. And moreover, that He is an active God, and not a remote one. Even further, I happen to believe that our Church is divinely organized, administered, and led. If everything I've shared in this post is true, then we don't need to spend time obsessively worried about 5 gay couples taking the sacrament apocryphally somewhere in the world. We just don't. I personally don't have the TIME, ENERGY, OR SPIRITUAL POWER to worry about hazy hypotheticals. Taking care of my own soul is a full time job.

@LDSLaw I pray always, especially on issues like this. It is not my stewardship to act only to speak as a covenant member. I won’t try to belittle you by asserting my revelation over yours. I will invite you to contend with the actual logic I’m presenting and ask where will this lead?

@xyathon Except it's NOT HAPPENING in THOUSANDS OF STAKES.

@LDSLaw The youth seeing a gay married couple serve in callings and partake of the sacrament isn’t an abstract issue and is considering all the very relevant souls and people in that decision. Multiply that in thousands of stakes—how does that change the Church?

@xyathon Where's the policy in the "big handbook"?

@LDSLaw A gay man has sex outside of marriage—> sacrament restricted. A gay man has sex within his marriage—> sacrament given. Call it what you want, but in practice, how is that not validation of the marriage? It didn’t come in an announcement or talk… just a policy in a big handbook.

@xyathon I'm a pragmatist. I tend to think we get into trouble when we take good concepts but then abstract them out to where we are no longer talking about souls & people. I think you're way, way, way overthinking this issue.

@LDSLaw The most important issues aren’t always the most prevalent, impactful, or meaningful—they are often the contested ones. No one argues that kindness & being nice to puppies aren’t good. They dispute whether we should kill babies in wombs out of convenience and castrate children.