Article in Time about single Mormons

[tooblue]

Interesting article in Time magazine about single Mormons:

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/ar...137681,00.html

[mpfunk]

Interesting article, but I would say the stuff said by Dalin H. Oaks is the type of stuff that makes being a member so damn hard for me. While I understand the churches focus on the family and it something that it should do, it makes it almost unbearable for me at time.

[non sequitur]

Originally Posted by mpfunk

Interesting article, but I would say the stuff said by Dalin H. Oaks is the type of stuff that makes being a member so damn hard for me. While I understand the churches focus on the family and it something that it should do, it makes it almost unbearable for me at time.

I had a friend who used to say that mormonisn is not a religion as much as it is a breeding program.

[fusnik11]

Originally Posted by mpfunk

Interesting article, but I would say the stuff said by Dalin H. Oaks is the type of stuff that makes being a member so damn hard for me. While I understand the churches focus on the family and it something that it should do, it makes it almost unbearable for me at time.

my advice to you...

take the type of advice he gave with a grain of personal revelation salt.

last time i checked quite possibly the most celebrated woman in lds church history is a single women who is very old.

[MikeWaters]

If I took to heart every stupid thing I ever heard from past and present LDS persons, I would have been long gone by now.

We are a big tent. Some people will have you believe different. They will try to exclude people that don't fit their preconceptions. Ignore them.

Now having said that, it is also our duty to carefully consider criticism.

[outlier]

Originally Posted by mpfunk

Interesting article, but I would say the stuff said by Dalin H. Oaks is the type of stuff that makes being a member so damn hard for me. While I understand the churches focus on the family and it something that it should do, it makes it almost unbearable for me at time.

I hear dat.

I always try to remember that They are speaking directly at the middle 95%, which is where they *should* be focused, but is definitely not a group that includes me. I feel I know where I stand with all that's right in the world, regardless of what They sometimes say. It's similarly useful to consider that they're speaking to a Group of people, not to any one individual.

o