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  • What sappy, saccharine crap! For a refreshing antidote to this, take a look at an insightful Mormon perspective on Proposition 8:

    "Mormon Church Defends Prop 8 and Marriage(s)" by lezazacomedy

  • It is pathetic that Mormons are trying to impose a theocratic, non-democratic ideology on America in the name of Christianity when they themselves are not even Christian. Mormons are not any more Christian than Christians are Jews. They possess their own religion, with their own holy book, just as Muslims have their own religion, with their own holy book. In a Christian theocracy that denied other people of different religions their rights, Mormons would be amongst those other people.

  • Goodness! Finally I found this song according to video!

    It remind me bean area and my trainer!

    It's best song remixxxxx!!!

  • The American people have a right to expect that their federal courts are conducted transparently and are free of bias. Unfortunately, Judge Walker’s failure to disclose that he is in a 10-year committed relationship with another man makes a mockery of the judicial process and under federal law should result in vacating his ruling.”

  • “NOM welcomes the filing of this motion to vacate this unprecedented, unconstitutional and irrational ruling seeking to impose same-sex marriage on America,” said Brian Brown, NOM’s president. “

  • Rescue me from my life, Marie Osmond

    As a kid, I pretended TV's richest singing Mormons were going to save me from my crazy, dirt-poor existence

  • Brigham Young and the Mormon pioneers who founded Great Salt Lake City 160-plus years ago did just that. Their vision encompassed a vast swath of today's American West. Imagine revisiting the people, places and history of that provisional state. ...

  • @CenturianRule "Thanks for the laugh, freak."

    thanks for the NAME calling. I have noticed that is ALL you have.

  • "A central purpose of these [service, learning and social] activities is to help young single adults find marriage partners and prepare to marry in the temple and raise righteous families," says the church's new Handbook 2 in its guidelines for ministering to single Mormons ages 18 to 30. . .

  • This is an age group Mormon leaders clearly worry about. Many singles "ward-hop" from place to place, without ever landing on a permanent spiritual home. Others stop attending and drop off the church's rolls and into the "lost members' file.

    Several leaders at last weekend's LDS General Conference urged young men and women to stop postponing marriage, which is, after all, the goal of all these singles wards.

  • @CenturianRule nice rebuttal. I figured that was ALL you can give otherwise you would have to learn to think for YOURSELF. A monumental task for ANTImormons.

  • "Joseph Smith taught women some pretty powerful things about what their role and responsibilities were within the church," Chamberlain said. "I think for many years (church leaders) have been re-teaching what the Prophet taught, but I'm not sure that women have totally understood or had ears to fully understand what it was they were telling them."

  • @CenturianRule "the turd I am talking about"

    when you are ABLE to rise above the cess pool that engulfs you, we can MAYBE have a civilized conversation. This potty language of yours is befitting the mentally ill.

  • Why were blacks denied eternal families until 1978 if the church is so family-forever-friendly?

    The anti-gay statements from the church remind me too closely of the horrible racist statements I grew up hearing in the church.

  • @drinkswithnedkelly "blacks denied eternal families"

    Blacks were NEVER denied eternal families! In fact, LDS people go out of their way to make sure blacks from ALL generations get eternal families. I believe we are the ONLY religion in the world that does that.

  • @omiolo Learn your own history. Blacks were denied the priesthood and access to the temple unitl 1978. There was no revelation, just a policy explained by racist explanations. I was raised in the church during those years and taught many filthy racist doctrines. As for LDS and eternal families - nonsense. Most religions believe in eternal families. Only the LDS teach that you must pay 10% of your income and go through masonic rituals in a temple to obtain an eternal family.

  • @drinkswithnedkelly "Blacks were denied the priesthood and access to the temple unitl 1978"

    Actually Mormons were one of the first if NOT the first to ordain blacks to the priesthood and to their religious hierarchy. I suggest you spend MORE time learning and LESS time lecturing so that you do NOT come off as IGNORANT.

  • @omiolo Under Joseph Smith, the church might well have been the first. Joseph Smith was progressive in many ways, certainly with regards to race. But under Brigham Young's racist leadership (read the Journal of Discourses) they were denied priesthood, entrance to the temple and therefore eternal marriage for over 100 years. The racism continued for the next century. Try reading what McConkie had to say about the priesthood ban in Mormon Doctrine.

  • @CenturianRule

    Very true!

  • Officially, the LDS Church is still weighing its options and has given no hints about which way it will go. While some are anxious to see the tabernacle rebuilt, they agree the decision will involve multiple factors, including a price tag that will ...

  • LDS Church still weighing options for Provo Tabernacle

  • He was in town with football great and fellow Mormon Steve Young to tour the remodeled Atlanta LDS temple along with other VIPs. The temple, near Perimeter Mall, has been closed for extensive renovations since July 2009. The Church will host an Open ...

  • Mormon sports legends Murphy, Young invade Lilburn

  • @CenturianRule "There is more love and understanding in a dog turd."

    I think you need to RISE above your self inflicted station in life. Just because ALL you can see is DOG TURDS, doesn't mean the rest of us dwell there.

  • Marriage is a sacred relationship between a man and a woman.

    Unless of course you are Joseph's Myth or Breedem Young. In which case marriage is between a man and a woman and a woman and a woman and a woman and a woman and a woman and a woman and a woman and a woman and a woman and a woman and a woman and a woman and some teenage girls.

  • @drinkswithnedkelly

    well said!

  • Greeeaaattt.... the Mormon plan of happiness.... unless you're gay, of course! But that doesn't matter of course.... Mormons don't think that gays are equal to them. Just like they used to think that black people were inferior.

  • @ScienceReasonBelief I know what you are saying I was born and rised as a mormon untill I realized I was gay, so I was quicked out and there was no more room for me , mormonism is so perfect !!

  • @garrulah

    me too! I'm glad we're free of that!

  • With all of my Heart, Might and MInd, I know that God lives and that Jesus is the Christ. I know that he loves me and that no one understands my trials, tribulations and successes more than he does. This gives me an eternal peace. I pray you will all come to know Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ as I do.

  • HAS ANYONE ever asked themselves why so many religions? well you see if by chance you discover that the catholics are part of the beast system and commit idolatry then satan wants to keep you in his system so here comes the jw religion to the rescue! so suck up many catholics who almost figured out his scam but satan was a little smarter. he has a "BUFFET" OF RELIGIONS to tempt you with. but ultimately you know what idolatry is and if you stay in satans SUN-DAY BUFFET then he has you PERIOD!

  • Too bad there are no gay families represented in this commercial. Oh wait, Mormons consider gay families to be Satanic. Silly me.

  • @NavajoJoe66

    If that's your opinion then why watch & post ?

    Go & find a church group that supports & encourages YOUR idea's & way of life.

    All i can say is that God did not create a man & a woman for no reason.

  • @ButterflyMumma Why is Prop 8 included in the title? That's ridiculous. This is just some typical Mormon commercial portraying its idealized version of the family (although there was a time Mormon prophets and apostles taught that monogamy was evil, LOL) while completely ignoring other types of families out there such as gay parents. I mean for all you know one of the children portrayed here could end up gay and is then shunned and demonized by the very church he was raised in.

  • @NavajoJoe66 What i find ridiculous is why you are bothering to comment at all ?

    If you feel so strongly about homosexuality then why don't you go and find a nice gay group to join, where you can all sit around bagging mormons ?

    Perhap's one of the children portrayed in this video will end up gay ? .. What's your point ? It's the message it sends that's important, and of course NO person should be shunned by their family .. And that's what church is, it's a family.

  • @ButterflyMumma Isn't that like saying that if I'm not black, I shouldn't be complaining about separate drinking fountains? Just go join a nice black group somewhere, where we can sit around and bag on the racists?

    Unfortunately, by characterizing gay people as "immoral" and "impure" and spreading false information (i.e. that sexual orientation can be "changed"), your religion is part of the problem, not the solution.

    Man, religion makes people so dumb.

  • @ButterflyMumma Well if he created males and females, then why did he create gay people too? And since he created them that way, don't you think they should have the same rights and responsibilities as their straight counterparts? I mean, they didn't have a say in their sexual orientation any more than straight people did. Think about it.

  • @NavajoJoe66 God did not create gay people. The world create's gay people. Evil create's gay people.

    Gay people are not bad people .. They are victims.

    They do have a say. Their homosexuality is a choice.

    Just like drug addicts CHOOSE to do drugs (even though they know it's wrong).

    Just like sexual predator's CHOOSE to molest children ... Homosexuals give in to their own sexual desires .. They give in to temptation, and their worldly desires.

    It's an illness.

  • @ButterflyMumma Homosexuality is an "illness"? LOL. Not according to the DSM IV it isn't.

    Ditto for the American Medical Association, the American Psychological Association, and the American Academy of Pediatrics.

    In fact, EVERY organization qualified to study the subject has unequivocally stated that sexual orientation isn't a choice and cannot be changed. Please educate yourself.

    BTW comparing gay people to drug addicts and child molesters only proves how ignorant you are.

  • @ButterflyMumma Not necessarily, if you think about it we are born into sin, with a sinful nature, is it not possible then that we can be born with the sinful nature of homosexuality?

  • ...President Monson said personal attitude, belief in one's ability and the courage to face challenges are the ABCs of "an abundant life." "You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face," he said, quoting Eleanor Roosevelt. "The danger lies in refusing to face the fear."...

  • President Thomas S. Monson, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, addressed graduates and their friends and families in a morning commencement on the campus of Weber State University...

  • The Kyiv Ukraine Temple is the Church’s 134th operating temple worldwide and the 11th on the European continent. Other European temples of the Church are located in Bern Switzerland (dedicated 1955),

  • London England (1958), Freiberg Germany (1985), Stockholm Sweden (1985), Frankfurt Germany (1987), Preston England (1998), Madrid Spain (1999), The Hague Netherlands (2002), Copenhagen Denmark (2004) and Helsinki Finland (2006). A temple to be built in Rome, Italy was announced in October 2008.

  • Following the public open house, the temple will be formally dedicated on Sunday, 29 August 2010. Three dedicatory sessions will be held to accommodate Church members in the area who will be served by the new temple.

  • Wow this brings back some memories I always loved this song it has a powerful and true message of the gospel of Jesus Christ the only one through whom we may return to live with our Heavenly Father. Thanks for posting it!

  • It's very very sad that people make very offensive comments using disgusting language, etc. I am opposed to prop 8 and am overjoyed with the judges ruling yesterday overturning prop 8; however I also know that it is very divisive, unChrisian and unhelpful to make mean comments against the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and its members. I see the future of LDS families who embrace their gay children and love them as they are and support them in their unique walk with the Savior.

  • @Rockymtntruth

    Thank you for your respectful comments, but it comes with the territory for those who believe homosexuality is an abomination and are not afraid to exercise their freedom of speech and religion.

    Just like my gay sister, we love and embrace the sinner, but hate the sin. Sin in any of its forms will never be endorsed or supported by the Lord's Church so the offense and intolerance will continue.

  • @DrPorterRockwell Homosexuality in and of itself is not an abomination. The modern prophets, especially President Hinckley have stated that he is not an expert on the issue so why do you continue making these statements that demonize a very special part of God's children? That's what I see as sinful.

  • @Rockymtntruth

    You are mistaken. Are you an expert in LDS doctrine and can you speak for our Church?

    I am an expert and I can speak for my Church and we believe that homosexuality is a sin no matter how much people try to spin our doctrines.

    We do not call light, darkness or darkness, light. Homosexuality, like other sins have always been an abomination. Homosexuals are under the same laws of God - if a heterosexual goes out and has sexual relationships outside of marriage, it is also a sin.

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  • @Rockymtntruth

    Michael Quinn huh? That is where you get your information from? From someone that was ex-communicated? No wonder you removed your comment, that would be embarrassing to admit.

    I need a history lesson? Well do tell us our own history then. Well?

  • @DrPorterRockwell I get my information from a large plethora of sources and I am very careful that those sources don't have an anti-LDS religious agenda that tends to come from several Evangelical sources.

  • @DrPorterRockwell Mike Quinn's excommunication has nothing to do with the fact that he is a great historian. The fact that he revealed some controversial issues that got him excommunicated for "heresy" (sounds like the Catholic Inquisition) because he let the history speak for itself (rather than being sanitized and edited) has nothing to do with the fact that he is a great historian which he is.

  • @Rockymtntruth

    Sure okay, I will get his book right away! ROFL!

  • @DrPorterRockwell Nope I'm not mistaken. You need to read the LDS pamphlet God Loveth His Children because it certainly doesn't show in your pharisaical judgmental attitude that you love God's gay children. That's certainly evident. Also to say you are an "expert" on LDS doctrine or history is also very arrogant. I know very few people who are authentic experts on LDS doctrine and fewer still on the Church's vast history.

  • @Rockymtntruth

    How did you know I hate my gay sister and gay friends? You must be a mind reader or was it Dr. Mike Quinn who revealed this to you?

  • @DrPorterRockwell Now that's just a rephrasing of "I know many people who are gay including a family member" but then they continue to make statements that are really outrageous and even bigoted in nature. Certainly the Church teaches that getting involved in sexual relationships that are homosexual in nature are a sin but they do not teach that homosexuality in and of itself (the orientation) is sinful.

  • @Rockymtntruth

    I hope you are off your advair because you are getting way too worked up over nothing. Scroll up and see what I said was a sin. We agree, now take a deep breath and if you can't, use your inhaler.

  • @Rockymtntruth Also I have some in my family and some friends who are gay. What the LDS Church has done in the name of God in order to pass prop 8 is something they will have to answer to Almighty God for. Taking away the agency of man is not taken lightly by the God of Heaven.

  • @DrPorterRockwell To say "we" you seem to think you know it all. Sorry but you speak for yourself not for others. Again your arrogance shows that you really are no expert at all. Dr. Mike Quinn is one of the most knowledgeable men I know about LDS history and doctrine and how that doctrine has evolved over the decades through various changes and revelation and he would never deign to brag "I'm an expert". His education, experience and works are evidence enough.

  • @DrPorterRockwell Oh and by the way I love Porter Rockwell but you are no Porter Rockwell. My Great Great Grandfather knew him and so did his father as they were Pioneers who helped build communities in the Cache Valley and in the Ashley Valley where Vernal Utah is. Go to the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers Museum and learn about these amazing pioneers as opposed to reading the sanitized versions of their lives. Signature Books publishes many of these histories unsanitized without editing.

  • @Rockymtntruth

    Let's get to the heart of the matter. Are you a homosexual? Former member? Or just going to avoid the question?

  • @DrPorterRockwell Yep I'm a member right now. My sexual orientation (whether heterosexual, homosexual, bi-sexual, transgendered, etc.) has nothing to do with this conversation and is irrelevant.

  • @Rockymtntruth

    It has everything to do with it.

    No need to be ashamed of it, I am not ashamed of my sister or friends and I know you think everyone is a bigot, but that is only your reality because you have an understandable conflict. At least Jacksonholenativ admitted he was gay.

    Unfortunately, you have one foot in the world and one foot in the Church. I know you want the LDS Church to be pre-50s where they didn't excommunicate gays, but sorry a practicing homosexual will always be in sin.

  • @DrPorterRockwell Sorry Mr. Pharisee but you are not the judge and you are not God even though your self-righteousness sure thinks so.

  • @Rockymtntruth

    Who said I was a judge or God? I appreciate your judgments though. What would Jacksonholenativ say?

  • @DrPorterRockwell Dude you've been judging gay people left and right telling them they are sinful just for who they are. If you truly loved your sister you would be supportive of her and not putting gay people down in a self-righteous manner like you do here on Youtube.

    You tell me what that person (Jacksonholenative) would say.

  • @Rockymtntruth

    Don't let your persecution complex get the best of you hence why you are putting words into my mouth.

    Again, the lifestyle is a sin, not the person how many times do I have to say that until you understand? I also appreciate your judgments if I really love and support my sister. Let God judge, not you with your chip on your shoulder.

    Why don't you ask the known homosexual Jacksonholenative since he is you. No need to be ashamed to admit you are a homosexual right?

  • @DrPorterRockwell "Don't let your persecution complex get the best of you hence why you are putting words into my mouth." Very silly.

    There is no "gay lifestyle" anymore than a heterosexual lifestyle. A person's romantic interest and that person's love is a core part of who that person is. When you judge that person for being in love with and romantically involved with someone whom they wish to be with because that person happens to be someone of the same gender that's what I'm talking about

  • @Rockymtntruth

    Am I judging a heterosexual having sexual relationships outside of marriage by calling it an abomination? Am I judging bestiality, pedophility and any other sexual perversion?

    Everyone is under Divine law, homosexuals are not an exception. I could care less what happens behind closed doors or who you are in love with, but we don't cave like our society has in calling good, evil and evil, good.

    I love my sister and my sister's partner, but not their lifestyle.

  • @DrPorterRockwell What kind of marriage? A marriage recognized by the state? A marriage sanctioned by the Church? A Temple Marriage? I know several gay people who have a deeply, loving and very beautiful marriages as they have civil marriages in the areas where the state or nation (i.e. Canada) recognizes those marriages. To say that you love your sister and her partner but not their "lifestyle" you are being a hypocrite. What lifestyle? That's self-righteous and very pharisaical.

  • @Rockymtntruth

    As a suppose "member", you should know that God only recognizes one marriage and that is only in His Temple between a man and woman. Gays want to destroy God's definition of marriage.

    I have no problems with civil unions and there is no need to describe in detail what I mean by lifestyle.

  • @DrPorterRockwell God only recognizes one marriage as being between one man and one woman in the Temple? Actually my great great great Grandpa was sealed to 3 wives and God recognized those marriages (sealings). That's another form of marriage.  Gays do not wish to destroy marriage. Gay people wish to have equality in their loving relationships. There are many such relationships that have been going on for many years and many have been legitimized by the state.

  • @Rockymtntruth

    Okay so you believe since polygamy was accepted then gay marriages will be accepted. The problem comparing the two is that one has never been sanctioned by God and never will.

    Yes, I know, you are hoping for the day that it will be sanctioned.

  • @DrPorterRockwell "The problem comparing the two is that one has never been sanctioned by God and never will." Well there you are playing God when you say it never will.  Hoping for that to happen and and then your statement that it NEVER will is a huge contrast. Why don't you just be honest and say you hope it never does happen. You're the kind of guy I think that would probably leave the Church if it did happen because you'd likely be disillusioned so terribly.

  • @Rockymtntruth

    Just stating what Prophets who speak for God have said.

    I never hoped for it either. I will accept whatever the Prophets decide, but again you are getting your hopes up.

  • @DrPorterRockwell "Why don't you ask the known homosexual Jacksonholenative since he is you. No need to be ashamed to admit you are a homosexual right?" LOL - you're seriously full of b.s.

  • @DrPorterRockwell I seriously don't know how your sister could stand being around you if she had to put up with the dogmatic judgmental disposition you have here. Did it ever occur to you that you might be wrong? Did it ever occur to you that there might just be more information and revelation out there the Church may not be ready to embrace just yet on this subject? With closed minds like yours who needs further light and knowledge? You sure don't seem to.

  • @Rockymtntruth

    We have a very healthy relationship and she knows our beliefs since she grew up LDS. She is the oldest and I am the youngest and we get along better than any of our other siblings. Yet, I love her and she respects our beliefs.

    You see, the world isn't out to get you or persecute you. Too bad the gay movement/mafia can't do the same. Parading around our sacred Temples, vandalizing our Churches and sending white powder to LDS headquarters.

    The Prophets are not wrong, sorry.

  • @DrPorterRockwell No such thing as a gay mafia. I know you want to believe that but the gay community is not some huge monolithic organization like a church. What those out of line people did (gay people) to vandalize any church is wrong. Sorry to blow your bubble but there were wrongs done on both sides during the Prop 8 conflict in the fall of 08.

  • @Rockymtntruth

    Here is the real face of the gay mafia on this video watch?v=3bqvqbcULoM

    The gay mafia has high-jacked your gay movement and you don't even realize it. They push their agenda with force, bigotry, intimidation and flat out lies. They made void 7 million votes and tossed aside the Constitution.

    The gay mafia will not stop with this, they will look toward our Temples and demand to be married in them also. Why do you think we are concerned?

  • @DrPorterRockwell I watched that video. I disagree with the premise. If you recall there are two heterosexual attorneys (one who is very conservative) who are speaking out and carrying a powerful case toward the U.S. Supreme Court. The Perry v. Schwarzenegger case is that case. The prosecution is profoundly intelligent. No "gay mafia". These individuals involved (the majority of whom you have never seen on t.v. or anywhere else) wish to have the equality promised in the constitution.

  • @Rockymtntruth

    The gay mafia is past 4:00, not the attorneys in the beginning.

  • @DrPorterRockwell None of this proves to me or anyone else for that matter, that there is a "gay mafia." Showing angry gay people screaming out epithets is just that, angry gay people screaming out foul language. It's not a conspiracy in any way. These people are angry for a reason. There are millions more (LGBT people and their families and friends) who have been calm and collected during these difficult times even though they have also been upset by this situation.

  • @Rockymtntruth

    No it doesn't prove the gay mafia. They work behind the scenes and their works are evident enough to see the intimidation, bigotry and pushing their agenda on the public.

    Nice condoning of their pathetic behavior. "Well they were angry for a reason". ROFL.

  • @DrPorterRockwell You sure do roll on the floor and laugh a lot. LOL To say that some gay mafia works behind the scenes sounds like lunatic fringe silliness that conspiracy theorists tend to push.

  • @Rockymtntruth

    Well, if you remember, I live in a basement so I have to ROFL a lot!

    Hope to see you around actually defending the faith.

  • @DrPorterRockwell Oh that's right. Truth doesn't need defending. Truth is truth.

  • Fuck you mormons! Prop 8 is dead hahaha.

  • @KayoteThunder I understand your opinion, but there is no need for obscene language here.

  • @yayitsezekiel There is a need for it because they used their tax exemption status and also used their church to act as a political influence to put prop 8 into law. That prop was biased and was unfair as well as unconstitutional. When people show disrespect to me by taking away my rights they can expect disrespect in return.

  • @KayoteThunder

    It was the african american block vote that pushed this through. Perhaps you don't realize that LDS make up only 2% of the voting population....obviously not enough to swing the election. But I suppose you're not going to go and disparage african americans now are you??

    The propositions was perfectly legal and legitimate, hence the reason for it being on the ballot.

  • @djwright44 I didn't say that they were the majority vote. I said that they acted as a political influence. They are the ones that campaigned against it with stupid propaganda and saying things like gays are out to harm your family and out to destroy traditions. As a matter of fact it was found UNCONSTITUTIONAL!! Which means it was in fact ILLEGAL! How anyone can support such a toxic proposition is beyond me.

  • Gov. Douglas addressed the issue of family values, calling home and family the foundation for teaching patriotism and service.

    "This was a wonderful gathering of all ages honoring veterans of our nation," Douglas said. "We are all looking to this next generation of leaders."

  • During her address Sister Beck focused on choosing to serve the Lord, what responsibilities are required within the House of Israel and how individuals can achieve those responsibilities as they walk with the Lord.

    Referencing the Old Testament, Sister Beck spoke of Rebekah's role and responsibility in the House of Israel.

  • i am family oriantated all because i use profanity im not family oriantated? i dont use vulgar luanguage in my home at all whatsoever ....but anyways answer me this, why is it that in mormans religon god and the devil was brother?

  • @ladybluu

    **god and the devil was brother?**

    actually God is the creator of ALL things. So if that is truth, that could mean that God created the devil not brothered satan.

    I think ANTImormons and the devil are brothers. Thick as thieves!

  • "I was happy as can be," Weddle said. "It was the calm feeling I felt. It felt like what they were saying is true. It could have been a little kid teaching me because I was ready for it. It was from the heart and that was what mattered."

    As Weddle continued to meet with the missionaries and read the Book of Mormon, he knew he would be baptized. But he didn't want to join without his parents' blessing. He had stayed in contact with Chanel, but she wasn't aware of his early church investigation

  • "First, you learn about a gospel principle or a priesthood duty. You discover what Heavenly Father wants you to do, and you strive to gain a spiritual witness about why it is important.

    "Next, you make plans to act on what you have learned. You are encouraged to base your plans on your own needs, circumstances and opportunities to serve others. This is a wonderful chance to take responsibility for your own growth and develop spiritual self-reliance.

  • In a talk delivered during the priesthood session of the Church's recent general conference, Brother Beck explained that deacons, teachers and priests will participate in Duty to God activities designed to help them learn and fulfill their priesthood duties. Each activity will follow a simple pattern:

  • In our last discussion, I explained that although "Israelite" DNA appears to be absent from Native Americans, this does not refute the authenticity of the Book of Mormon.

  • DNA markers can and have disappeared. Most of the DNA studies done on Native Americans -- the root of Book of Mormon-DNA criticisms -- is based on mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), which is inherited from the mother. MtDNA lineages are divided in branches (haplogroups) on a large tree called phylogeny, with a built-in "molecular clock" that measures mtDNA changes (mutations) over time

  • Once again we call upon the members of the Church to reach out to the new converts or to those making their way back into the Church, to surround them with love and to help them feel at home.

  • why is that the african americans way to go to heaven is through slavery, that they had to be slaves? that shit is crazy!

  • @ladybluu

    I realize that in your world PROFANITY is common place. However, we are Mormons and as such we try and keep EVERYTHING we do family oriented. In fact we worship a God who says, "suffer the children to come unto me for such is the kingdom of heaven".

    Refrain from PROFANITY and VULGARITY when doing ANYTHING associated with Mormons.

  • @omiolo pioty and pride is as sinful as vulgarity and profanity. Without Christ alone, you are lost.

  • @awolLDSasap

    sins do NOT matter right? you commit one sin you commit them all? repentance is unnecessary right? Jesus did EVERYTHING for you except ATTACK Mormons and that is what you have to do for Jesus?

    Did I get your religion right?

  • @omiolo WOW A RELIGON THAT IS BASED ON SOME RACIAL THINGS IS SO IDIOTIC! THIS IS A WHITE MANS RELIGION, THERE NO UNIVERSALNESS IN THIS ONE AND I DONT BELIEVE GOD WAS A RACIAL PERSON!! WHY CANT IT BE THAT EVERYONE THAT BECOME SALVES TO GO TO HEAVEN, I MEAN WE ARE ALREADY IN A WORLD OF MONDERNIZED SLAVERY...ANYONES THSTS BUSTING THERE BUTT TO THE GOVERNMENT ARE SLAVES...LOL

  • @omiolo BTW, WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOUR WORLD...IF I RECALL U WAS LIVIN IN IT TOO..LOL...CURSING IS UNIVERSAL ASWELLS, BUT BEING CLEAN FROM OUR SINS ISNT! ITS THERE FOR OUR USE BUT NOT MANY TAKE ADVANTAGE OF IT..BUT MORANISM IS NOT THE WAY FOR SURE COMPLETELY..LOL

  • @ladybluu

    my world is family friendly, apparently your world is NOT!

  • Morgan said. My brothers both walked on there, but I felt like I could get a better opportunity, and the coaches at CSU were fine with me having to take my (church) mission.

  • Most expected Morgan, a 6-foot, 210-pounder, would follow the path of his older brothers — Blake and Rex — and play at Brigham Young University, but the offer of a full-ride and the ability to play close to home played big in his decision.

    BYU is a great place, and going on your (Mormon) mission is something they deal with all the time,

  • Even with the preparation and training gained through a college experience, it is still important to follow the direction of the spirit, in all of life's pursuits, Elder Scott said.

    "Be certain that the freedom of choice you now have is used wisely, productively by continuing to live righteously to enjoy the guidance of the Holy Spirit to achieve your worthy goals in life."

  • I love this song. I did this song at my mother's funeral, even though she was Baptist. I am the only LDS in my family.

  • The invitation to repent is rarely a voice of chastisement but rather a loving appeal to turn around and to re-turn toward God.

  • Repent . . . That I May Heal You

    Elder Neil L. Andersen

    Of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles

  • u damn mormons,i know you're not part of polygamy but its in ur backyard and u know that.go and protest and save those children who r bein raped under ur gods name.

  • you damn us for getting involved in the lives of others and then when we do NOT you damn us too!

    it is a damnable game you play!

  • Matthews work wasn't limited to the JST. He was one of four senior editors of the "Encyclopedia of Mormonism," reporting to editor Daniel Ludlow. He taught religion at BYU until he retired in 1992.

    "I used to sit in on his classes when I was at BYU," Charles D. Tate, a retired English and religion teacher at BYU and former editor of BYU Studies, said. "His insights were amazing and his research was thorough."

  • The new Bible included, for the first time, footnotes that contained excerpts from the JST. Matthews also contributed his expertise to the volume's Bible dictionary.

  • In 1979, the LDS Church published a new LDS edition of the King James Version of the Bible. Matthews worked with the Scriptures Publication Committee, led by Elder Thomas S. Monson, Elder Boyd K. Packer and Elder Bruce R. McConkie of the Quorum of the Twelve.

  • A splendid video, one that is really where it's at. It touched my spirit, and I felt healing.

  • what does this have to do with prop 8?????????????????????????????­?

    Darn, I thought it was going to be a pro-gay marriage and how it pertains to marriage with gay relatives and friends. darn it :(

  • Why did you have to put prop 8 in the title? The song and the video were done by very talented people and is very moving. I don't think we need to add political commentary. It seems you are trying to be divisive or just increase your view count. How sad.

  • "I don't think we need to add political commentary"

    I think you fail to see our perspective. Saving families is NOT a political issue but a moral issue. It is of supreme importance to us.

  • You know that Prop 8 was put in the name of this video just to increase the view count since there is nothing about prop 8 in the video. You must be a kid if you don't get that. Now it seems you just want to argue. The Church's support for Prop 8 created nothing but bad will and you too seem to be filled with this same anger...it's a far cry from the touching video...again, how sad.

  • "You must be a kid if you don't get that. "

    yeah, I must be.....

    or maybe this song depicts what we are/were defending?

  • I hope you can do better than that. You make 1 line vague responses that don't even address the issues. Again this is sad. You have been doing it all the way up this thread, there's not one person you have made a cogent response to. I hope you are not the average Mormon because with your lack of debating and understanding skills are a sign of a poor education. Please tell me you aren't home schooled or worse yet, Utah public Education. It's like talking to a box of hair.

  • "I hope you can do better than that."

    making my point CLEAR is NOT enough?

    I will make it again in case you missed it the first time!

    "Saving families is NOT a political issue but a moral issue. It is of supreme importance to us. "

  • people seem to forget that the mormons took the bigest hit when it was not only them defending families. The catholic church and many other churches all fought prop 8. From a historical perspective, it would bring the fall of the american society were the family dissolved in such a way. any society that has turned its back on traditional mairrage

  • Will its harder to say goodbye and let go

    for time to ever erase,

    and its hard to see it end

    When the mem'ries we've just made

    may never happen again.

  • Mormons believe we can be together with our family forever through Jesus Christ. Heavenly Father sent Jesus Christ to pave the way for us to return to Him. This is the great plan of happiness!

  • Mormons, members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, commonly known as the Mormon Church believe that this life is not the end. Through the sealing power performed in the Temple, Mormons believe we can be together with our family forever through Jesus Christ. Heavenly Father sent Jesus Christ to pave the way for us to return to Him. This is the great plan of happiness!

  • Many Mormons seem very upset by the anger and hatred directed toward them in the past week. Don't they realize gays are subject to anger and hatred ALL THEIR LIVES? Not just words, but physical attacks with fists and weapons resulting in disability and death? Imagine being Matthew Shepard, tied to a fence and beaten for 6 hours and left to freeze to death. Imagine attending a funeral for a son and having people show up with huge signs saying your son is burning in hell.

  • "Don't they realize gays are subject to anger and hatred ALL THEIR LIVES?"

    gays control the media. The control the flow of information.

    Nice TRY!!

  • I thought it was jews?

    Gays don't control the media, they may have a big impact on the entertainment industry but they don't control that either. If you want to say liberals control the media than maybe that would be accurate.

    Anyway what would scare you Mormons more, legalizing same sex marriage in 2010 (it will pass by that time seeing as the 18-29 demo supports it 70-30) or an 'protection of religious integrity' ballot measure that strips the tax exempt status of kooky cults like LDS?

  • "Gays don't control the media"

    whatever, look at who contributed to the Prop 8. the media contributed overwhelmingly to NO, families, and people who care about children contributed overwhelmingly to Yes on Prop 8.

  • @omiolo

    There's a difference between people who say they care about families and people who actually do my Mormon friend. Me and most people on this nice globe of ours do not believe things like 'torture' or 'denying children medical care' are family values or any kind of positive values at all. You guys have done a masterful job at using 'family values' as a cover word for hateful bigotry but in the long run I think it may have hurt your cause very much.

  • That was very well said,but I think this omiolo person is probably 14 so it won't matter until he grows up and gets into the real world. He already claimed to be a Dr of Chemistry...whatever that means...

    Good Comment but your throwing pearls before a pre-pubescent swine.

  • Wow, that was some serious mormon cheese.

  • VOMIT

    The Mormons are full of hate and bigotry.

    Vote No On 8

  • I'm mormon, I don't "hate" anyone. I don't judge or think poorly of gays or anyone else I think that it's actually pretty progressive of the church to come out in favor of equal rights for same-sex couples. It boils down to the simple definition of marriage. I think of marriage as being ordined by God in His manner and I believe that to be between a man and a woman. That kind of obligates mormons to support prop. 8. It's nothing personal or bigoted.

  • Throughout our lives, we must deal with change. Some changes are welcome; some are not. There are changes in our lives which are sudden, such as the unexpected passing of a loved one, an unforeseen illness, the loss of a possession we treasure. But most of the changes take place subtly and slowly.

  • Say Yes On 8 and protect the right of Mormon men to forcibly marry prepubescent girls! Say YES to pedophilia! Say Yes to Magic Underwear! Ladies, Say Yes! Your sister-wives will thank you! Protect plural marriage! Thank you Mormons for donating 75% of the money for Yes on 8! I can't wait to pick out a nice 10 year old girl (or three) on Nov. 5th!

  • "Say Yes On 8 and protect the right of Mormon men to forcibly marry prepubescent girls! "

    actually it is NO on Prop 8 that says you can change the definition of marriage and union with whomever no matter what!

    children

    family

    multiples

    etc

  • James 2:21

    "Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar?"

  • "OK I just wanted to say all this"

    I wonder at what point you say to yourself. I have done ENOUGH to tear down families and good people? I have ruined my own life, I am bitter, and all I have to show for it is LIES and DISTORTIONS?

  • "out of context! out of context! this has nothing to do with Prop 8"

    I have noticed you ANTImormon types think FAMILIES are out of context.

    I am sorry you had a bad one. But most of us do NOT and we can't let bitter calloused individuals decide things about families.

  • xxxmar,

    you left your bubble? Careful if you venture outside of it you might actually have to learn the truth. Maybe even think for yourself.

    imagine that!

  • Mormon is a fake religion..... fake prophet, fake heaven, dumb women who still think it's 1958 and lots of uptight dull men who never amount to anything but being dull and old.

    If the american revolution had depended on mormons we'd still be under english rule.

  • "Mormon is a fake religion..... fake prophet, fake heaven"

    are you a pharisee?

  • You like to think Jesus died for you. If he did the he wasted his time on a hate filled bigot like you.

  • "..wasted his time on a hate filled bigot like you. "

    so now we are in to name calling? for you next trick will you throw us to the lions? turn a fire hose on us? sick your dogs on us?

    yell at our families and children...nevermind you ALL ready do that!

  • Will I return to you the same ugly hate filled bigot trash you've thrown at gay people for years.......

    For a start why don't we stop your "right" to marriage and see how you like that.

  • "Will I return to you the same ugly hate filled bigot trash you've thrown at gay people for years......."

    I have done NO such thing.

    maybe you should google

    Carol Anne Burger, 57,

    and then talk to me about who hates!

  • You're nuts.

  • BTW,

    Carol Anne Burger is a prominent gay activist!

    please let me know how much hate she has?

  • Cheap shot. Get a life.

  • "Cheap shot. Get a life. "

    what do you find out about Prominent gay activist Carol Anne Burger?

    Is that your idea of hate or not?

  • Christ taught us that it's not our place to judge. Yes we are all sinners, but just because one supports prop 8 doesn't make them hate-filled or bigoted. I would never say that Christ "wasted his time" on anyone. That's a terribly hateful thing to say, moreover it's not your place to say it. Mormons simply believe that marriage is ordained by God and want to protect what we believe to be its definition. It's not meant to be a personal attack on anyone.

  • Get a life you ridiculous troll. And Jesus did not waste his time for you, maybe you got your head out of your superb little narrow minded mormon world you might wake up to the truth. Ordained by god, boy are you stupid. And it is a personal attack, I'd like to end your fucking marriage and see how you like it. You're a creep.

  • See that's just the thing though, it's really not personal. I get what you're saying, you're right, I wouldn't want anyone to end my marriage because it means so much to me as I'm sure same-sex marriages mean just as much to those involved. But if there is a God it's obvious that he designed marriage to be between a man and a woman. That's why I stand up for it.  I really don't hate gays or anyone. I just believe a certain way and I allow them to believe a certain way.

  • It's not my place to judge. But in the same way that mormons are "attacking" the gay community, activist judges have also attacked by legislating from the bench. I'd like to see how you would handle the abolishment of gay marriages without even so much as a vote the same way that it was lealized without a vote.  So it kinda goes both ways. I don't think that I'm a creep though, I try to be a nice guy. I'm just trying to be true to my beliefs, the same as you are.

  • Mmmhmm...next the mormon church will prophesize against interracial marriage and encourage polygamy...oh wait, they already did that...

  • Nice video. Not sure what it has to do with Prop 8. Hey wait a minute... I'm not sure but wasn't this the same video you guys used for to support Andrew King's anti-miscegenation amendment? Maybe not, they didn't have videos in 1871. Anyway nice video.

    Marriage is between a White Man and a White Woman or a Black Man and a Black Woman.

    Too bad we lost that battle. At least we can maybe win this one for awhile.

    Racial Integrity Act of 1924 lasted 43 years. Can we get to 50 this time?