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Originally Posted by Goatnapper'96
My issues:
1.) Ronnie Jenkins being kicked out of BYU. I have never liked how the LDS Church is too concerned with others' perceptions. Besides that you ever imagined how good that '99 team would have been if it still had Ronnie Jenkins and John Tait (who I am convinced a big part of his decision to leave was a result of the Ronnie Jenkins fiasco)?
2.) Blacks and the priesthood. I just can't figure this one out and it will always be my principal question concerning LDS history. It doesn't seem to have benefitted anyone. It doesn't bother me as I don't get worked up about these issues and from my perspective as cumbersome and controlled by inertia as the Church is, eventually the Church came around.
3.) Polygamy/polyandry and all that crap. I can intellectually understand the good polygamy did as a form of accountability with respect to making sure a woman and her kids had some man responsible for their movement to wherever the early members of the Church were going. I can spiritually see the benefit that the challenges incident to polygamy provide in becoming more like God. So polygamy rates lower on my list of concerns than blacks and the priesthood because I can see the potential good that comes from it. I also believe the revelation was legitimate. However, celestial laws being lived by mortals often provide enormous opportunities for abuse. I don't know if the early LDS Church was no different than what I am told the modern FLDS Church is with respect to polygamy, but I am convinced that abuse occurred and I am also convinced that no man can meet the needs of 50something wives. It just boggles my mind. In the end I guess it wasn't so much polygamy as a concept bothers me as much as the concept seemed to expose the humanity of some of the early leaders that I would prefer to be oblivious to.
The amazing part to me is despite these enormous issues the Church continued to roll forth as that stone cut without hands.
All these things stand as a testament that boobs are in!
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If Tex will give me the OK, I will reiterate my feelings about the honor code. No, I will just paraphrase Bronco concerning Lavell. "Those were the days when the coach could go to the Stake President and say, can't we see if we can help this kid."
By the way, it was nice to hear Todd Shell was at the fireside and a caring SP has helped him back.
Speaking of boobs. Why advise against two earrings, but no statements about enhancing the boobs.