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MikeWaters 07-20-2017 04:06 AM

BYU-Idaho fires instructor for posting FB message on gay support
 
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.17290d6fb9c1

MikeWaters 07-20-2017 04:08 AM

Yet another signpost of how Mormonism really risks being sequestered into the category of "bigots."

People can argue whether it is fair or not to marginalize Mormonism, but it is happening and will continue to happen. While many active members bite their fingernails wondering why we are making this our stand.

ChinoCoug 07-20-2017 12:22 PM

She's pretty cute.

Archaea 07-20-2017 04:16 PM

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.d5b5c9161c85

Quote:

Though she is still a practicing Mormon, Robertson said that since her firing, she has contemplated leaving the church. She worries the church will excommunicate her following the publicizing of her Facebook post and firing.
and further the plot thickens,

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For now, she is working as a bartender to pay the bills while looking for a new job.
Good ole Daniel Peterson,

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/danpete...book-post.html

and now she is interviewing with her friend John Dehlin.


Archaea 07-20-2017 04:22 PM

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Originally Posted by MikeWaters (Post 323144)
Yet another signpost of how Mormonism really risks being sequestered into the category of "bigots."

People can argue whether it is fair or not to marginalize Mormonism, but it is happening and will continue to happen. While many active members bite their fingernails wondering why we are making this our stand.


Until the older generation lets go of its gay hate, Mormons will be marginalized.

One of the ways that Mormonism may find itself out of the fog is to re-think the concept Excommunication and Disfellowshipping for sexual "transgressions."

It is strange to grant non-professional lay clergy judgment rights over a person's sex life.

I don't know if either of you has seen Spotlight, the movie about the Boston Herald's exposee on the sexual abuse of children by the clergy. Included in that investigation was a psychologist who had studied the issue for forty years. He noted that 6% of all priests will abuse children, and that 50% of priests are having sex.

The LDS Church reconfigured its approach to identifying members with sexual predatory tendencies as a result of legal liability.

What father wants a forty, fifty or sixty year old man talking to his 13 year old daughter about her sex life? That issue is fraught with legal liability. The LDS Church needs to move away from that issue. And if it does it can have a reconciliation with gay people in and out of the Church.

ChinoCoug 07-20-2017 07:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Archaea (Post 323146)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.d5b5c9161c85



and further the plot thickens,



Good ole Daniel Peterson,

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/danpete...book-post.html

and now she is interviewing with her friend John Dehlin.

Not juicy enough. Stripper would probably be better.

She was masquerading as a believer the whole time. Lying.

Archaea 07-20-2017 08:35 PM

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Originally Posted by ChinoCoug (Post 323151)
Not juicy enough. Stripper would probably be better.

She was masquerading as a believer the whole time. Lying.

The un-masking of her masquerade continues:

Her reddit posting history as exmofeministq:

https://www.reddit.com/user/exmofeministq

A post that gives context to her agenda:

https://www.reddit.com/r/exmormon/co...5bb/?context=3

MikeWaters 07-21-2017 03:58 PM

I'm less concerned with whether the former instructor had machinations. I'm more interested in how and why BYU-I makes decisions.

Archaea 07-21-2017 09:33 PM

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Originally Posted by MikeWaters (Post 323153)
I'm less concerned with whether the former instructor had machinations. I'm more interested in how and why BYU-I makes decisions.

You and I agree that the Church should get gay friendly and drop the hostility toward the LGBTQ community.


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