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Category Archives: News
Mormon Politics
The upcoming presidential election seems likely to be a close one. Many have questions about whether or not members of the LDS church are obligated or asked to vote for Governor Mitt Romney. The answer is no. There has been … Continue reading
Remember the Third Act
What I get out of this is that God doesn’t ?want? these bad people hurting his beloved children, but He respects his own laws–including the gift of agency. However, God is also just and by the end of the third act these people will have paid the reckoning for their actions (unless they’ve accessed the Atonement, in which case the Savior will have paid it for them). Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, Jesus Christ, News, Religion
Tagged agency, Atonement, Jesus Christ, Plan of Salvation, tragedy, trials
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Policy for Strong Families
Although there may be some other important details, it seems to me that the coming presidential election is going to be decided primarily by the issue of gay marriage. From what I’ve been able to scrape from the news, although … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, Family, News
Tagged economy, education, family, gay marriage, war
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Apostolic Visitation
Would any of my fellow students care to come? Would this high-profile speaker been addressing an empty room? Or, would the room be full but only of members of the church who somehow found out about the event (despite our attempts at secrecy) and filled up the room before any non-LDS people could get in? Continue reading
Proxy Baptisms
Jewish Holocaust survivor Eli Wiesel recently called for Mitt Romney to tell the Mormon Church to stop proxy baptisms of Jews. Members of his own family were listed in the Church’s genealogical database. Family members of journalist Daniel Pearl have … Continue reading
White horses and other mysticism.
This is not going to be a long post, I hope. I am still recovering from the shock that Tim Tebow did not win his playoff game against the Patriots. Bad things do happen to good people, even if the … Continue reading
