The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints live-streamed its biannual general conference last weekend. Leaders had intended to use the meeting to discuss coronavirus, but instead they ended up talking about gay sex and how “sinful” same-sex marriage is.
Church elder Jeffrey Holland kicked off the second day of the conference with a message of hope during these crazy, crazy times.
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“When we have conquered it, and we will, may we be equally committed to freeing the world from the virus of hunger and freeing neighborhoods and nations from the virus of poverty,” he said.
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“May we hope for schools where students are taught, not terrified they will be shot, and for the gift of personal dignity for every child of God, unmarred by any form of racial, ethnic, or religious prejudice.”
That’s all find and dandy. It’s what came next that was, well, weird.
After Holland had finished his opening remarks, it was church president Russell M. Nelson’s turn to speak.
Nelson said Mormonism is be the only antidote to “earthquakes, fires, floods, plagues.” Then he added that the devil is doing his evil work through social media and marketing.
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After that, it was Dallin Oaks of the first presidency, the governing body of the LDS church, turn to talk.
Oaks didn’t waste any time before blaming LGBTQ people for coronavirus.
“Outside the bonds of marriage, all uses of the procreative power are to one degree or another a sinful degrading perversion of the most divine attribute of men and women,” he ranted.
Mormon leaders have been thinking a lot about gay sex lately.
Last month, they got into a fierce debate over same-sex relations after Brigham Young University, a private Mormon university located in Provo, Utah, lifted its ban on behavior that exhibited “homosexual feelings.”
The ban was reinstated two weeks later, however, after the commissioner of the Church Educational System declared that “same-sex romantic behavior” is “not compatible with principles included in the Honor Code.”
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Cam
The only qualification to be religious in America is to be a bigot. The churches have dumped ANY other requirement or rules it seems.
TomG
I have to agree with that. And “Christians” always seem to use the Old Testament to validate their bigotry instead of using their own New Testament, which says absolutely NOTHING about same sex love etc.
Chrisk
I could say something really snarky but I’m just dumbfounded by their relevance to anyone at all. It is a MENTAL ILLNESS. Anyone who thinks they can change is naive to the extreme. Who cares what this loony cult thinks about anything.
winemaker
To bad the mormon church still lives in the dark ages. And to think these loons control a whole state and make all the laws in that state , many trumping federal laws is truly scary. The mormon church isn’t a true Christian’ church as it didn’t come about as a result of the Protestant Reformation of the 1500’s. Sadly this cult has destroyed so many lives and has screwed up so many that managed to escape their clutches
Mack
Of course the Church of Morons would spend their time talking about same-sex and not the virus. There is no hate in the virus.
TomG
Actually it seems they are obsessed with sex, and using gay sexuality as a cover for their own same sex relations.
Tempus
I’m nitpicky as I don’t like the church of latter day saints or their homophobic stance yet that sentence “Outside the bonds of marriage, all uses of the procreative power are to one degree or another a sinful degrading perversion of the most divine attribute of men and women,” doesn’t make me automatically even think anything regarding same-sex partners. It makes me automatically think they’re bashing people for having sex prior to marriage which religious groups have done for years and nobody including their own parishioners actually care to listen to that stance. Yes, same-sex couples can’t procreate but eh it doesn’t really set me off the way most of their comments usually do. This one just feels meh and I’m not remotely shocked they went on a rant about a completely unrelated subject when they were supposed to be talking about a deadly virus because that’s their style.
Celtic
Their diversion and redirect tells me how much they OBSESS over homosexuality. I suspect there are a LOT of queers in denial in the LDS. I mean, have you ever met one of those young, scrubby clean nicely built Morman lads?
Seriously, though, they protest far too much. “There is a queer in here” scares hell out of them because they know what is going on in the closet of their minds. The Mormons have a long history of misogyny. They believe that “Heaven” is separated men from women: the stages of Heaven. They wear “special” underwear. They hold secret meetings. I view Mormonism as more cult, less Christian in Faith.
GayEGO
LIke many religions, the Mormon Church refuses to learn and evolve with the majority of Americans, so they lose with their dark-ages thinking.
Jared MacBride
How are they losing? They’re the fastest growing religion/cult in the world.
Cam
@Jared MacBride
What a shock, the same account that always defends Republican bigots is here trying to push out the Mormon Church’s memberhip lie.
Sweetie, you’ll have to tell the church that their growing because for the last several years they’ve been closing down wards and consolidating them. They also refuse to remove people’s name from their membership lists even if they request it, so the numbers are artificially high.
Oh, and of course that is not even MENTIONING the horrific P.R. they got into when it was discovered they were posthumously trying to baptize all off the dead holocaust victims into their church.
Any more lies you want to push?
Jared MacBride
@Cam – always a pleasure to read your posts. They remind me that the inability to read remains a major problem in the world.
Cam
@Jared MacBride
Translation: You lied and tried to claim the Mormon Church was still experiencing huge growth. I pointed out your lie and you couldn’t dispute that so tried to lash out like a child.
Sweetie, if I’m lying, you’re welcome to dispute the fact that the LDS church has been closing down and consolidating wards. But….you can’t.
You right wing anti-LGBT trolls are just not good at your jobs.
orserj1967
What get’s me most about this is how two faced that most of these men in the LDS are! Especially the so called leader’s because they are nothing but closeted men themselves. They get up on that stage and preach about how sinful it is to be having same sex and the next thing they are finding a young male member and getting what they don’t get in the sheets at home from his wife. The pleasure of oral and anal sex that his wife won’t give. Then they threaten their victims by telling them that they will be unbelieved because they are already looked at as having a gay demon in them. But if only the one’s being abused this way could stand up and speak out then you would see the LDS crumbling right in front of the world…..
MrMichaelJ
I used to live around a bunch or Mormons in South Florida and never have I been around more closeted gay pretty men.
Pianowski
and they always come visiting in pairs two sexy guys so I invited them in.. I had well fitting jeans and had a prominent bulge so we sat opposite each other and I did,nt mention I was gay I just sat there ..open legs and at times rubbing my crotch ….you should have seen their eyes lol I,m sure one of them in his dark trousers was showing signs of interest.. they soon left but not without this guy giving me long eye contact… I feel sorry for them !!!
Mr-DJ
If “Mormonism is the Only antidote to those things”, I’d say that so far they are doing a pretty lousy job, and apparently things are getting worse. If anything is “God’s retribution” against something we did, it was the installation of Trumpus as president. Of course that’s retribution enough in and of itself!
Bob LaBlah
How ungrateful can you get. And to think the site Mormonboys.com was set up in their honor.
voyy
Mountain Meadows
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
Bunch of noxious old cranks who’s magic underwear are all bunched up riding up their crusty Depends…..
GayVeteranOfcr
Turn the whole question on its head.
Ask “Who are they to think they know the thoughts of God?”
What if God intended to make gays?
What if God approves of the gays He made?
What if opposing gays actually opposes God’s creations?
Think about that – who made gays the way they are?
Religion appears to base fears on a book over 2,000 years old written by prejudiced old men.
What if they were wrong all along?
Norm
Gay people are proof there is no god. Every gay person knows that everything that religion says about them isn’t true. We know it’s not a choice. The only choice there is, is weather to lie about it or not. They’ll say it’s un natural. What do they think, we like the opposite sex but just go with the same sex to irk them? How many gay people think how they feel about the same sex isn’t natural to them? Everything religion says is a lie. They make things up. Look at Galileo. The church said the sun revolves around the earth. Galileo said the earth revolves around the sun, which went against what their god said, so the church threw him in prison! Oh, and in case you didn’t know, Galileo was right! There are thousands of religions and each one thinks their god is the correct one. I thought there was only one god? Then god threw Adam and Eve out of the garden because Eve, the woman, ate the apple. Man made religion and a god. If women did, do you think god would be a man? All the gods from all the religions seem to be men, because man, now women made it all up. It’s a way to control people. If I ever tried to be like god and decided to punish everyone for their entire life because one of them did something I told them not too, people would think I was evil. It was a set up. The devil said, “Here Eve, eat the apple, god doesn’t need to know.” Then he talked up the apple and she decided to take a bite. If the police did that to someone, tell them sure, go in there and steal something, no one will know, and you did and the police that told you to steal it, arrest you for stealing, they call that a set up. We’re supposed to worship something like that? Someone is dying and the partner prays to god and asks him to save the partner. If the partner lives, it was god that did it. If the partner dies then it was just god calling the person to be with him in heaven. Everything is justified so they can say there is a god. It’s an extension of the cave men thinking fire, the moon, anything they couldn’t explain, was a god. This went on until someone started inventing their version of god. It’s all a crock of you know what. Now these holier than thous are saying gay is wrong? Half of them will be coming out next year. They are into religion as a way to hide their homosexuality. No one will think I’m gay if I’m in the church, I’m a priest. Then they smarten up. It’s all the same story over and over from all religions. It’s all made up. They think if there were no god to scare the children by telling them you’ll burn in hell forever if you’re bad, they think everyone would be evil. Well, that’s not the case. Some people need a crutch I guess? Some people can’t even give themselves credit for what they’ve done on their own. God told me to do it or god helped me and without him I never would have succeeded. Yup, religion is a form of mental illness. In this day and age, they’re interviewing people coming from church services when they insist on social distancing. One woman says she’ll never get corona because she’s bathed in Jesus’s blood. None of us will get it. Well, I could go on and on. trump loves the evangelicals because he knows they want to push their ways on everyone and if he kisses their fannies, they’ll vote for him. They have to do that to promote their god? These people just want more people to go to their church to give in the collection plates and if we can scare and force them into it, we’ll make more money. Well, that’s my fix on the subject.
James
MORMONS ARE A DEAD END CULT.
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
While we are waiting out the corona apocalypse an excellent movie if you haven’t seen is
“Latter Days”
An awesome love story about a Mormon on one of their missions and his coming to realization he is Gay.
If you are not crying like a little girl during the restaurant scene at the end, you need to run to the ER and try and find some space cause your heart ain’t working…
Added bonus the actors are all very hot
It’s a twofer cause it’s a great movie and you know the above mentioned old crusty bastarrds were outraged when it came out!
🙂
Inthelife
IS the Mormon community aware of the gay ‘mormon’ videos on Pornhub? I’ve often wondered if they knew about that site and the videos the appear to depict members of the Mormon church engaging in highly erotic scenarios often depicting inter-generational sex! Here’s the thing; SGA (same gender attraction) is as old as Humanity! For all the religious hostility and violence arrayed against it, it has not ‘gone away’; it prevails and thrives despite all attempts to make it disappear! So-called ‘homosexuality’ is an integrated variation of Human sexuality; as long as there are Humans on the Earth, Human sexuality will continue to express itself in multiple variations on that single theme!; it is part and parcel of the Human experience and the only way to ‘get rid of it’ is to get rid of Humanity!
ty_stoner2002
Clickbait headline. I was hoping for some REAL discussion of gay sex… instead, just boring religious folks talking about avoiding ‘sin’. Anyways guys – hope the ad revenue was up!
Wheelerman
Fck the LDS.
radiooutmike
Maybe I’m dumb. I must be since I lived through it myself many years ago.
But it still surprises me how much many churches talk about gay sex.
Pianowski
because most of them are closet gays
Pianowski
Two-faced bigots I have had dealings with Mormons they wrecked my life and ALL in the name of God Such religions should be banished from the face of the earth