Originally Posted by Archaea (Post 321952)

I have lost hope that change will be made in time to save Mormonism's soul. Or it may wander and dwindle before it finds itself again.

Dissent will not be tolerated and will continue to be treated as medieval Catholicism treated dissent.

BYU's leaders have no power and the fact that rapegate has no new policies shouts to the heavens that the old guard still can't understand why the rest of the world rejects autocratic management. The inner circles of Church management must be confounded.

Proposition 8 sounded the deathknell on the advance of Mormonism. The subtle changes of small advances of moderate Mormon women may come too late.

Originally Posted by ChinoCoug (Post 322926)

Mormonism will survive. We need to step outside the focus on the modern West. Russian infants are all baptized into Orthodoxy again, and the Church is seeing modest gains in Eastern Europe. Evangelical Christianity is on fire in China (now 7% of population).

Once we resolve this gay problem, the Church can return to its growth trajectory.

I think we need a medical alternative to the largely-unsuccessful conversion therapies. That would partially solve the issue.

Originally Posted by Archaea (Post 322929)

You want a medical surgery? OMG, please retract that. Nature creates these tendencies.