11-08-2008, 07:20 PM | #1 |
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Prop 8 reaches Mississippi
A friend of mine just called. She had joined the church in April. She's a single mom with a son the same age as mine. They moved into our ward in August and our sons became immediate best friends.
Anyway, she's a liberal-minded woman and she just heard about the church's involvement in Prop 8. She's irate. I really didn't know what to say to her about the issue.
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11-08-2008, 08:14 PM | #2 |
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Challenge her to find a Christian-based religion in California that had no involvement in the issue.
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11-08-2008, 08:17 PM | #3 |
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That won't work. She was through with religion when the missionaries found her. Then she felt like our church was different than the others so she joined. Now she feels like she was duped and that in fact we're just like all the others.
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11-08-2008, 09:01 PM | #4 |
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yikes. that's a tough one.
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11-08-2008, 10:06 PM | #5 |
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the similarities between ours and other organized religions are many.
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11-08-2008, 11:22 PM | #6 |
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Our church isn't just politics, and neither is our worship. I'd try focusing on the more spiritual things that seperate us from other religions.
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11-08-2008, 11:29 PM | #7 |
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You hate to hear stories like this and I wish I had a good suggestion for you, but as a liberal minded woman, it was likely just a matter of time before she found something to be offended about in regard to the LDS church.
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