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WOAH WOAH WOAH, this is so not true... I sure hope this was a joke... We believe in the Bible and it is equally if not more important than the Book of Mormon. The BoM is "Another testament of Jesus Christ," not the only. Polygamy was tool to increase members. Moving a small population across the country takes some man power. And polygamy is over and done with. Blacks are highly accepted in mormonism. My local temple president in African American. Tell me how that isn't accepting. That 10% "protection money" is called tithing, and it's used for things such as building chapels and help those in need (Mormon or not, I invite you to look up Mormons and Hurricane Katrina, and their contribution). Women are equals in all relationships. Mormonism accepts gay people to an extent, however they do not promote it and do believe that it is a sin(but seriously what religion doesn't). And masturbation does not turn you gay.
Thanks to AlmighyFreak and to Welshboy for their comments.
If you don't want to join a church then don't. But please don't make light of the sincere beliefs of others.
In recent years the Mormon church as made great strides in working to have a dialogue with gay members. While they don't condone the act of guy to guy sex they also don't condone woman to man sex outside of marriage.
The key in their belief isn't the gender of the realtionship it is because it is outside of marriage.
Now, marriage between a man and man is something that will be decided outside of religion, it will be decided in Congress hopefully... and not by the courts.
The post that began this thread showed a statement almost 40 years old by a member of the LDS church. Not the President of the church, just one member stating his beliefs.















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