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Okay, maybe it won't take centuries; only decades. In thirty or forty years, the Church will be in the extreme minority, the Nation will have adopted gay marriage, and many of the churches will continue to drift on this issue. We'll be a pariah; tax exempt status; social acceptance; convert baptism rates; political persecution . . . etc. All these will be threatened.
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My point is that this is why SU is correct: in many ways, Prop. 8 is indeed the Church's Gettysburg.
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Gays who have sex cannot be members of our Church, let alone hold the Priesthood. How will that sit with society in 50 years time?
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If it is the one true church of God, why would it need social acceptance?
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Waters sets the tone. He's called every one of us a moron one time or other, except for his henchmen Archaea and Lebowski.
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Did you see me say I think the Church should/will change its stance? Didn't think so.
My point was that if it doesn't (and I don't think it will), the Church will be under great political and social pressures. How those pressures will be brought to bear, I'm not sure. But you're naive if you think society in fifty years will allow the Church to respectfully disagree without collateral consequences. For this board, the greatest will be this: Pac-10 teams won't play BYU.
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