In a move that could act as a bellwether moving forward, the Latter Day Saints (LDS), more commonly known as the Mormon Church, recently endorsed the “Respect for Marriage Act” – a bill that forces states to recognize same-sex marriages.
Citing a Breitbart article, The WinePress reported on the specifics of that bill and what it will mean moving forward, not to mention 13 Republicans that broke party lines to support the bill:
A day prior to the bill’s passage, the LDS church officially offered their support for the bill.
In an official statement the LDS hierarchy wrote:
The doctrine of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints related to marriage between a man and a woman is well known and will remain unchanged.
We are grateful for the continuing efforts of those who work to ensure the Respect for Marriage Act includes appropriate religious freedom protections while respecting the law and preserving the rights of our LGBTQ brothers and sisters.
We believe this approach is the way forward. As we work together to preserve the principles and practices of religious freedom together with the rights of LGBTQ individuals, much can be accomplished to heal relationships and foster greater understanding.
However, as noted in The WP report concerning this bill, the supposed religious provisions and exemptions are not very clear, and will be hard to enforce or judge based on how it is worded, according to some critics and lawyers.
Even though the Mormons do not affirm sodomite marriages as official dogma, and have resisted such sweeping moves for decades, Patrick Mason, head of Mormon history and culture at Utah State University takes a glass half empty, half full approach:
This seems entirely consistent with where they’ve been doing since 2015. […] What they always wanted was that they weren’t going to have to perform same-sex marriages in temples. But apparently they seem satisfied [that won’t happen under the new bill].
[This move is] part of the church’s overall theology essentially sustaining the law of the land, recognizing that what they dictate and enforce for their members in terms of their behavior is different than what it means to be part of a pluralistic society.
Adding onto this, The Salt Lake Tribune affirms the LDS’ inching towards supporting this type of legislation and compromise:
In 2015, for instance, when a Kentucky county clerk, citing her Christian faith, refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, Latter-day Saint apostle Dallin H. Oaks, a former Utah Supreme Court justice, spoke out against her decision. Public officials, he said at the time, “are not free to apply personal convictions — religious or other — in place of the defined responsibilities of their public offices.”
The updated version of the Respect for Marriage Act moving through Congress reflects Oaks’ desire that disputes between religious freedom and LGBTQ rights be resolved through compromise and legislation, not litigation.
Courts are … ill-suited to the overarching, complex and comprehensive policymaking that is required in a circumstance like the current conflict between two great values. Notwithstanding my years of working with judicial opinions, I prefer the initial route of legislative lawmaking on big questions.
Oaks, now a member of the governing First Presidency and next in line to take the church’s helm, said in a landmark speech a year ago at the University of Virginia.
The faith’s latest announcement also is in keeping with the spirit of the church-endorsed, Legislature-approved “Utah Compromise,” which protects LGBTQ individuals from housing and workplace discrimination while also safeguarding some religious rights.
Many other LGTBQIA+ sympathizers and leaders praised the Mormon’s support:
[I am] heartened to see The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints publicly take this stance today.Despite differences we may have, we can always discover common ground on policies and laws that support the strengthening of all families.
[The latest revision of the act] clearly acknowledges and protects the diversity of American religious and other beliefs, it does not do so at the expense [of its aim of] to safeguard marriage equality. Troy Williams, executive director of Equality Utah, said
It answers, once and for all, the question, ‘Can members of the church support same-sex marriage?’ The answer is yes, and the church does, too [as long as the wedding takes place outside of the faith].
This news is an enormous relief to families of gay children who can now comfortably shower their gay children with the same love and support they give their straight children who marry.
Allison Dayton, founder of the Lift and Love foundation for LGBTQ Latter-day Saints, said
[I am] thrilled to see both parties in Congress and people of all faiths coming together to respect the right of every American to marry regardless of race or sex.It’s encouraging to see both sides put down the weapons of the culture war and focus on what we agree on instead of what we disagree on.
Clifford Rosky, a professor at the University of Utah’s S.J. Quinney College of Law who teaches sexuality and gender law, called the church’s endorsement “wonderful news,” and a “milestone”
‘Affirmation, a support group for LGTBTQ Latter-day Saints and their families and friends, “appreciates the work [the church] is doing with outside LGBTQ group to secure housing and employment rights,” Nathan Kitchen, the group’s president, said Tuesday, “as well as its support to codify marriage equality in the United States,’” The SLT added.
[Still a] great disconnect exists between the public sphere and the faith home of LGBTQ people, where Latter-day Saint families are offered less protections and equality within the church for their LGBTQ children than what is granted them by the laws of the land. No amount of religious freedom success can compensate for failure within our spiritual home. Kitchen added
The WP reported last year that the church leadership was continually pressuring their congregations to get a Covid-19 vaccine, and wear masks at all times when in a temple, which divided a lot of congregants. Eventually the LDS hierarchs mandated that masks be worn during worship.
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
The Mormon church has been heretical and blasphemous since its inception: a false gospel, a false Jesus (2 Corinthians 11:3-4), garbage doctrine, made-up traditions and a lot of “touch not, taste not, handle not” rhetoric (Colossians 2:16-22).
Bearing all that in mind, the Mormons have been drifting into more social justice crap year-over-year. They will only endorse many abominations moving forward.
[10] For the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing the land mourneth; the pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up, and their course is evil, and their force is not right. [11] For both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in my house have I found their wickedness, saith the LORD. [12] Wherefore their way shall be unto them as slippery ways in the darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall therein: for I will bring evil upon them, even the year of their visitation, saith the LORD. [13] And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria; they prophesied in Baal, and caused my people Israel to err. [14] I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none doth return from his wickedness: they are all of them unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah. Jeremiah 23:10-14
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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No big surprise here. This “church” was from a corrupt root and, hence, its fruit is corrupt also.
Not surprised. She is a harlot.
And her mother is Mystery Babylon.
Her harlot sisters are baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian, Lutheran, Pentecostal, Jehovah’s Witness, seventh day Adventist, episcopal, anglican, and church of Christ.
Well, that’s par for the course for an antichrist idolatrous humanist sex cult submitted to THE antichrist idolatrous humanist sex cult….branched off from the ‘other’ sex cult order co-opted by the Jesuit Weishaupt. Witches is as witches do. They re-educated & scrubbed Ed Decker’s old website ‘Saints Alive’ which used to have all the historical account of the Mormons, Joseph & Hiram Smith and company back in the Obama admin years. He didn’t even realize the Masonic connection until he got saved & turned to warn what the Mormons actually teach in the ‘higher’ & ‘deeper’ Temple Mormonism….and the Masons started coming after him.
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I was so angry with myself for not making hard copy in time, & sobered by how that all went down, while the treachery of certain bigname ‘conservative’ and ‘patriotic’ evangelicals who slandered & sold Ed down the river, adding insult to injury, along with his own ‘woke’ younger family members, & probably his wife (shades of Kent Hovind a bit later)… definitely evidenced that the misgivings I was beginning to have about the trustworthiness & honesty of some of those folks wasn’t ‘just my imagination’.
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There’s a tie-in of Mormonism & Masonry to Islam, too. The King James Bible & devastating archaeological documentation that Steve Van Nattan put together on the history of Islam lays the covert military ‘history’ of Islam, with the simplistic moon god thing distancing her from Masonry and Roman Catholicism, that confuses so many to rest. hajjiallah
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What’s been coming out about ‘handlers’ & ‘signature reduction’ makes sense of the evidence& prophecy. And nobody ‘handles’ & herds heretics & the naive or immature Christian like the Jesuit masters of all craft & kabala, the militaristic army corps of engineers & sorcerers of Rome.
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Jason Cooley of Old Paths Baptist Church, Northfield, Minnesota has a good history of the Mormons from their beginnings online that he updated some at this news, & which included a lot of the scrubbed information preserved by former Mormons & those who attempt to minister to them. Like the J.W.’s ….and the Seventh Day Adventists, there is a huge Mormon Temple in Vatican City….go figure; & his histories on the head founding witches & sorcerers of those movements are also accurate. Their job was to infiltrate, corrupt and to destroy, to cause confusion….and especially amongst King James Bible believers & baptists, and to subvert & subjugate any nations not subject to Rome.
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Fewer & fewer are coming out of MYSTERY, and more and more are falling back to her, & showing their true antichrist & Mammon worshipping colors, in fulfillment of scripture.
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It pays to remember that they like to cultivate those lacking wisdom & discernment, even young zealous Christians who’ve not yet had their senses exercised, nor been honed & refined by the Lord’s faithful chastening of his own…..then using any misstep (or apparent, or engineered…as the false witnesses against Jesus & Naboth) to justify persecuting & marginalizing, slandering and instigating the superstitious to slaughter & devour: like lumping baptists with the Muenster cult & such like, the St. Bartholomew’s massacre, the bloody Piedmont massacres, and the Irish one. Neighbor against neighbor, and brother against brother, like their modern socialist ‘revolutions’, Rwanda, Uganda, the Congo, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Cuba, Venezuela, and so forth.
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Then Rome pretends & deceives, posturing as the ‘good guy’, the ‘more indulgent’, the hero bringing order to chaos as though not a partner to the former regime’s abuses, & generally the steering cause of them, with her spirit all along….as though she weren’t colonialist, in the slave trade up to her neck then and now, killing babies while pretending to be ‘pro-life’, anti-family while claiming to be its ‘champion’, every bit as involved in transhumanism, necromancy craft, dealings with familiar spirits/aliens and ‘angels’ as her crony Mormons are, and as though it wasn’t due to a special bull from her pope for the crony Portuguese king’s voyages of discovery & ability to sell his only ‘cargo’ after chattel slavery had been illegal in the West & Europe for over 100 years thanks to lingering biblical influence & the grace & blessing of God…..that brought the Western powers back into the Eastern despotic practice of slavery (which wasn’t just adults or blacks, but also fairii-skinned women & child sex slaves) which had never ceased, & in partnership with the shamanic pagans & very racist & bigoted Arabic Muslims who dominated the trade.
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I hate the lying revisionist, hypocritical partial truths & histories behind which the holier than God hide themselves, preening in self-righteousness….as though they wouldn’t have been amongst those persecuting & killing the prophets as their fathers. Lacking in repentance, humility and meekness, and proud: ripe for judgment while celebrating & calling for it for others: some of whom are (or who were) better than themselves.
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God is not mocked, & it’s better to lay the hand upon the mouth, & to pray as Daniel for oneself & one’s nation….than to show oneself eager for the day of darkness.
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Isaiah 65:5 Which say, Stand by thyself, come not near to me; for I am holier than thou. These are a smoke in my nose, a fire that burneth all the day.
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Amos 5:18 Woe unto you that desire the day of the LORD! to what end is it for you? the day of the LORD is darkness, and not light.
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Matthew & Luke again:
Mt 23:37 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!
Mt 23:38 Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.
Mt 23:39 For I say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.
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Lu 13:32 And he said unto them, Go ye, and tell that fox, Behold, I cast out devils, and I do cures to day and to morrow, and the third day I shall be perfected.
Lu 13:33 Nevertheless I must walk to day, and to morrow, and the day following: for it cannot be that a prophet perish out of Jerusalem.
Lu 13:34 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee; how often would I have gathered thy children together, as a hen doth gather her brood under her wings, and ye would not!
Lu 13:35 Behold, your house is left unto you desolate: and verily I say unto you, Ye shall not see me, until the time come when ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.
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Mt 23:29 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous,
Mt 23:30 And say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.
Mt 23:31 Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets.
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Think of the above in terms of Romans 9-11, Rome and her Daughters, the two synagogues of Satan, the times of the Gentiles now coming to its close.
Only if those blaming historical groups can detail doctrinally & historically where those groups erred particularly, parting from biblical doctrine & reversing, or following errors within their movements from the beginning, back toward Romanism, are they any better than those still blindly following the teaching & accusations of men on the Bible version issue or to be taken seriously, any real threat to antichrist error. They are also following and aping men, not scripture & Christ of the Godhead according to the scriptures.
Marriage is supposed to be between a Man and a Woman, and there is something special about the two different genders coming together and becoming one in the union of marriage, something beautiful. And it’s a thing that these same gender couples cannot enjoy, as what they do is a wicked sin. Even so, these wicked, sin-laden, money-hungry churches see fit to sin against the Lord, to take pleasure and accept those things which the Lord calls an abomination.