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Police take man to hospital following standoff outside LDS Temple in Provo
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Who was speaking evil of the lords anointed? You seem to have a habit of shoving your own perceived interpretations in other people's comments. Of course there are differences in shunning and disfellowship. But they are terms that have a negative undertone to me. Telling me I have a right to leave my church because I have opinions is just plain stupid.
In light of the fact that his bishop kicked him out for being single, the experience was not positive for him.
I am still not sure you have a clue what happened in this case, but I am sure you do not have a clue in general.
The term "special interest" is not the one used, instead it is "young single adult". Generaly these wards, when not affiliated with university populations, have a general guideline of membership being singles between the ages of 21 and 30, inclusive.
If what you say if what actually happened, which is still a big if, I think I understand what the bishop was aiming at. He was telling this man that he was not going to get married hanging out in the ward where he grew up and should start attending a singles ward where he could meet someone to marry.
The fact that these wards are for people ages 21-30 or at times 18-30 means they are not some sort of "punishment" to those who turn 25 and are not yet married.
Maybe the bishop could have been kinder in the way he presented the issue, but we have no clue how the issue was presented. The more I learn the more clear it is that this guy had serious issues.
Also, I don't think anyone could reach a cap on compassion. We all need to increase our love and compassion daily.
This is my first time commenting on a story and I've found whoever it is I've been talking with to be truly delightful. Thanks for a positive experience on what could have been potentially contentious and mean-spirited.
The negative associations of disfellowship are in your mind and have no place in reality.
To began with they do not get up and publicize that someone has been disfellowshipped. Maybe if it was your bishop, but other than that it does not get announced.
You are speaking evil of the Lord's way. If you do not like the church, you do not have to be part of it.
I will not just sit by and let people run campaigns agianst the Lord's way without speaking.
This is even more true because it is beganing to appear that you and your allies rushed to judgement and made false assumptions about the antecedents to this issue.
I wrote this before, but I think it did not get published, if it did, sorry for being repetative.
TO speak against the system of disfellowship and excommunication is to speak evil of the Lord's anointed. To claim that people who are deliberating a serious issue can not break into laugheter just shows that the person has a narrow assesment of others action. At times laughter is because of a need to releave tension, or because of something that happens that is funny, it does not mean the people in question do not treat the situation with seriousness.
Since watching the PBS "Mormons" with the radical lady calling excommunication a violent act, I am no longer willing to just sit back and let people attack the leaders of the church.
Bishops and stake presidents are not perfect. However I have learned that the frustration with their counsel is normally a result of pride on our part, and much less often a result of any faults on theirs.
I am ready for the LDS church to say 'we are all sinners, let's all worship together'.
As you know, docterines do change in the LDS church. early prophets in the LDS church said that witholding the priesthood from Negroe's was docterine, but it changed.That is why there is a prophet-to be able to receive revelation to change things.
Your fixation on speaking evil against the lords way because someone has honest feelings about terms is absurd. What gives you the right to judge someone by saying "you are speaking evil against the church" when no such comment was made? You know nothing about me or my background, life's experience, church service, activity, missionary or charitable work, etc, etc. I have been in the church for a long long time and at least in Philly we are able to express our concerns and questions in an honest and knowledge seeking way without being reminded "you can always leave if you do not like it" or being branded something you are not. I guess I should be grateful someone like you is guarding the sanctity and integrity of the church as a membership sentinel.
I think young people should have the choice to stay in a family-oriented Ward if they prefer. One of the best scout leaders I had as a youth was a single young man in his late 20s who was going to college, but still living at home with his parents.
This man is suicidal by being kicked out of the church, I was suicidal for being in the church, until I left just 3 years ago.
It was the saddest time my life for being in the church for more than 20 years.
How today, I'n blessed with such an abundance of blessings in my personal, professional, and spiritual life, and it so happens that it occured in the 3 years I've left, therefore, I am absolutely convinced it's because of my decision to leave the mormon church.
The only that I regret everyday is, I wished I had done it much sooner.
While the bishop may have had what he thought was all of the facts he is, like the rest of us, sees things through his own experience.
This has gotten way, way out of hand.
All I have to say is "whom the Lord calls, the Lord qualifies".
At times people need hard handed moral straightening out.
Why someone is trying to steal my identify I am not sure of, but I am tired of it and wish people would stop posting lies on here.
There is usually more going on than meets the eye.
The claim that the man is mentally ill is almost certainly true. The statement that the bishop should have realized this and acted accordingly is built on a lot of assumptions. Did the bishop recomend to the man to seek help from professionals? We do not know. Had this man met with professional psychologists or psychiatrists? We do not know. Were there previous incidents of attempted suicide or other such things? We do not know. Were there past events that should have caused the bishop to realize that this man needed hard core serious help? We do not know.
I'm tired of hearing you whine about your identity being stolen on all the blogs----- No one else seems to have that problem. I think personally you are simply looking for attention.
Actually I have seen other people complain about their identity being stolen, and that was when they were using something other than a real name.
It is not my fault that people steal my name.
I am way too judgemental? What about those people who have spent most of this blog condemning a bishop on no evidence. What about Susie Q. who denounces a church disciplinary counsel that apparently never occured?
What opinion do I have that is out there. That in some cases people should be told not to take the sacrament? That people who publish books denouncing the basic doctrines of the church should not be allowed to maintain their membership?
Since you do not have any real identity it does not get stolen. Well, I have chosen to use my real name, and the fact that other people then get on here and post as if they are me is very distrubing, and I will complain about it until it stops, and preferably until the system is altered so we can post under locked identities that other people are not able to use.
You need to grow up.
Having been in a bad postion with a church leader practicing unrighteous dominion, I think we need to excercise extreme caution in how much power we allow them to have over their congregations. D&C even warns about it and what happens when we give men power.
KEEP STUDYING and learning.
Second: I am a non-member, and generally disapprove of how the church handles things such as this.
However, It must be said that in this case the Bishop and other members of his ward handled this matter appropriately and swiftly. He has been getting professional help subsidized by the church for several months now, and I chalk this up to recent life events (mostly unrelated to the church).
That is all I feel comfortable saying without discussing it with him first... which i will not be able to until tomorrow, but, to tell you the truth, most of the comments here are pretty off-base. Nearly all of the speculation wrong.
Even if there was some kind of gun control people would still find a way to commit suicide. Guns or no guns, it has very little to do with the illness and sickness of the human mind.
1. If someone makes multiple comments on one article, it will make more sense.
2. We won't have people pretending that they are someone else and saying confusing/contradictory/rude things.
I am from Colombia and learning to speak English, give please true I wrote the following sentence: "Create interactive stories, games, music and art the game is about a flea who tries to get through a year."
:( Thanks in advance. Adonia.
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I've always wondered why the church doesn't let 25 and older singles attend normal wards if that was their preference. It almost seems that it's a punishment for not getting married in a timely manner. I've seen plenty of young LDS kids get married at age 18..21, but within 5 years end up divorced, usually with one or more kids to suffer the consequences.