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YOhio · 08-27-2008, 01:06 AM

the Official Declaration extending the priesthood to all worthy males.

http://www.uwyo.edu/news/showrelease.asp?id=25103

Archaea · 08-27-2008, 01:09 AM

That is cool.

Score one for the pokesters.

SoCalCoug · 08-27-2008, 06:35 AM

Wait a second - U. Wyoming dismissed a bunch of football players for planning to wear black armbands in protest of the ban on blacks and the priesthood? They should have been applauded, not dismissed.

During the olympics I've thought of the two U.S. olympians back in the 60's with the raised fists on the medal stands, and I've been thinking about that sort of protest, and its appropriateness in athletic events.

I've seen them reviled by white people - you know, not the time and place and all that stuff - but I think what they did was good and appropriate - competing for a country that didn't grant them the same civil rights as white people. I'd like to think that I'd have the guts to do the same thing.

il Padrino Ute · 08-27-2008, 11:01 AM

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Originally Posted by SoCalCoug

During the olympics I've thought of the two U.S. olympians back in the 60's with the raised fists on the medal stands, and I've been thinking about that sort of protest, and its appropriateness in athletic events.

Which is why it would have been great if any of the athletes had had the guts to hold a Tibetan flag during a medal ceremony. There is a time and a place for political actions and that would have been a perfect time and place.

Sleeping in EQ · 08-27-2008, 01:37 PM

If someone wanted to make a memorial to those 14 players, or to found a scholarship in their names, I would donate.

08-27-2008, 01:06 AM	#1
YOhio AKA SeattleNewt Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 7,055	'Pokes to commemorate the Official Declaration extending the priesthood to all worthy males. http://www.uwyo.edu/news/showrelease.asp?id=25103

08-27-2008, 01:09 AM	#2
Archaea Assistant to the Regional Manager Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: The Orgasmatron Posts: 24,338	That is cool. Score one for the pokesters. __________________ Ἓν οἶδα ὅτι οὐδὲν οἶδα

08-27-2008, 06:35 AM	#3
SoCalCoug Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Orange County, California Posts: 3,059	Wait a second - U. Wyoming dismissed a bunch of football players for planning to wear black armbands in protest of the ban on blacks and the priesthood? They should have been applauded, not dismissed. During the olympics I've thought of the two U.S. olympians back in the 60's with the raised fists on the medal stands, and I've been thinking about that sort of protest, and its appropriateness in athletic events. I've seen them reviled by white people - you know, not the time and place and all that stuff - but I think what they did was good and appropriate - competing for a country that didn't grant them the same civil rights as white people. I'd like to think that I'd have the guts to do the same thing. __________________ Get your stinking paws off me, you damned, dirty Yewt! "Now perhaps as I spanked myself screaming out "Kozlowski, say it like you mean it bitch!" might have been out of line, but such was the mood." - Goatnapper "If you want to fatten a pig up to make the pig MORE delicious, you can feed it almost anything. Seriously. The pig is like the car on Back to the Future. You put in garbage, and out comes something magical!" - Cali Coug

08-27-2008, 01:37 PM	#5
Sleeping in EQ Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: The People's Republic of Monsanto Posts: 3,085	If someone wanted to make a memorial to those 14 players, or to found a scholarship in their names, I would donate. __________________ "Do not despise the words of prophets, but test everything; hold fast to what is good; " 1 Thess. 5:21 (NRSV) We all trust our own unorthodoxies.