Ignorance of history and ignorance of personal experience with the wide range of people, including myself, who would be classified as "perverts" under such general and vague classificiation.
You act like I don't know any Gay people. I know a few, I spent some time with a celebrity whose home I installed air conditioning in. His boyfriend thought it was funy to come out to the job site and walk around naked. We just packed up our things and left wehen he did this. We stopped associating with this couple when asked to do a service call on their gymnasiam A/C and saw pictures on the wall of grown men posing naked with little boys. My father stopped and told them he wasn't going to finish the service call and that they were not to call him again.
I like the music of Queen and Elton John, but that doesent mean I'd ever want to go hang out with them. Freddie Mercury may have been an amazing singer, but his personal life was of such a nature that it would make a goat puke.
Why? Is it because gay men bother you more? Why is that?
Because I respect women.
This explains to me the entirely ahistorical slant of your posts---in some sense, belief in the End of History makes historical knowledge impossible. At least that thought just occured to me, and I have to thank you for helping me see this. I'll have to work this idea out some more, but I think it may just be a significant concept for my current project, which among other things takes up the literary genre of Historical Fiction. (And truthfully, this may not be such a big insight, I'll need to see if this point is made by other critical philosophers of religion/christianity.)
How can you say I ignore history? I understand perfectly well that homosexuality has been around since the days of Adam and Eve. There is apocryphal scriptural reference to orgies taking place in the cities of the valley, tempting the people that Seth was serving as a prophet. Homosexual activity is a byproduct of rejecting christianity, because once God is out of the picture persoanl morals shift with the fashion of the day. Just because there is historical precedence, doesent make it any more acceptable.
Which community? At which point in history?
Any moral community at any point in time.
Where does that leave us? In other words, how then will you/should you interact with those whose beliefs/actions run counter to "the Plan of Salvation?"
Where that leaves us is my trying to get you to understand your ultimate potential and to reject the perverted views of the world. I can quote scripture to you all day, and show you from scripture how God has dealt with his stray children in the past, but until you are willing to pray and ask God how he feels, and are willing to recognize and follow the promptings of the Holy Ghost, my words will mean nothing to you. If I remember correctly you stated that you were a member of the church, baptised when you were young. You have the gift of the Holy Ghost, but you need to learn to follow his promptings. Are you willing to find out if God is real?
Its the sin of being unchaste that's the problem, not the sinner. Like I said, I like Freddie Mercury, I just didn't like how he spent his private time. Which leads to your next question
A side queery to the above is: is the "vulgarity" you describe above enough to prohibit someone being baptized Mormon after they're dead? If so, how is this known? If not, then, presuming they accept the gospel in spririt prison which of course they will because by that time they will know Mormonism is true, aren't they then covered by the Plan of Salvation?" In which case, why the heck does it matter?
Baptism for the dead is for those who died without an opportunity in this life of learnign about Christ and living by his teachings. That being said, everyone is expected to live according to the truths they know. If a person goes out of this life seeking to improve their virtue and help others grow, then they wil continue in that state. Going from this world to the next is simply stepping through a door. You are the same person there you are here. If a person goes out of this life living a sinful life, they will continue to have those same desires and nature in the next. They will go to the place prepared for those who are unwilling to make covenants and who rebel against God and virtue. A baptism for the dead does not save them unless they accept the work and live according to the promises made at baptism. A sinful person will not. The ordinance will have been performed but will naver have been sealed by the Holy Spirit of promise.
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. - Plato