RockSlider wrote:Some of us Baby Boomers are beyond help. If only my children would have been a lot further into the millennials and a lot further away from the BRM type, Mormon Corridor indoctrination I brought them up in.
These new possibilities of a healthy Mormonism seem to have come out of no where, to me only being introduced to it so briefly and recently here by Mak.
I'm well beyond redemption at this point.
It's gratifying to me that my wife and my active LDS kids are all in agreement that this policy is wrong. I had a thought last night that maybe this whole thing is what Vaughn Featherstone referred to as a "self-inflicted purging," though to be fair, he was talking about masturbation and porn. But throughout the church's history, it has drawn lines to separate itself both physically and culturally from "the world." The practice of polygamy, the "gathering," the Word of Wisdom--these were all obvious markers that Mormons were a "peculiar people." Perhaps this new policy is an attempt to further sharpen the lines between what is acceptable in the church and what is not. Perhaps the brethren are well aware that a lot of people will be disillusioned and/or leave the church over this, but they are betting those who stay are those who are committed. After all, if you can get someone to go along with such a policy, you can get them to do a lot more.
Obviously, I have no insight into the way this policy came about. I genuinely don't understand it and hope that the leadership will collectively come to their senses and reverse this. Either way, as Jersey Girl said, there's not really any going back from here. The message is clear: gays are not welcome, and their children are expendable. You can't dress this up. It is what it is.