Mormon Church makes changes to Packer's sermon regarding homosexuality

[helderheid]

Source: ABC 4 News Salt Lake City



SALT LAKE CITY (ABC 4 News) – The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has changed the text of Boyd K. Packer’s sermon on morality, homosexuality and same-sex marriage.

Packer’s sermon claimed that homosexuality was not born of inbred “tendencies.”

In the Church’s online text version of Packer’s talk, the word “tendencies” was changed to “temptations.”

During his original talk, Elder Packer spoke of homosexual tendencies saying, "Some suppose that they were pre- set and cannot overcome what they feel are inborn tendencies toward the impure and unnatural. Not so. Why would our Heavenly Father do that to anyone? Remember, he is our Father.”

READ THE ONLINE VERSION OF PACKER'S TALK HERE: http://lds.org/conference/talk/display/0,5232,23-1-1298-23,00.html

WATCH THE ORIGINAL TALK HERE: http://broadcast2.lds.org/general-conference/2010-october/2010-10-4020-president-boyd-k-packer-300k-eng.wmv

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[helderheid]

1. Omitted:

Another change to Packer’s talk includes the omission of the entire sentence, “Why would our Heavenly Father do that to anyone?”

[hatrack]

4. Why would our Heavenly Father allow spina bifida, or anacephaly?

Oh, right, forgot - it's the whole "moving in mysterious ways" bit.

[thereismore]

8. Maybe it's because he doesn't care or doesn't exist. nt

[L.Torsalo]

15. ...or Mormonism?

[joeybee12]

2. Nice to see them covering up for this nasty old jackass...n/t

[cliffordu]

3. Why would the Heavenly Father turn that guy into

a sack of shit with legs???

[closeupready]

11. Excellent question.

:rofl:

[MindandSoul]

5. Why our "heavenly father do that?" maybe because it is NOT

unnatural and impure!!!

[xchrom]

6. Why would The Heavenly Father let Mr Packer be recorded

And a written transcript exist to compare?

[Doctor_J]

7. Inbred? Inborn?

:wtf:

[Permanut]

9. I have a tendency to want to marry more than one woman.

I suppose it's "inbred" or "inborn". I wonder if "elder" Bird Pecker could help me with my problem.

Oh, and K & R.

:sarcasm:

[arbusto_baboso]

10. Ah, the LDS Church, Lying for the Lord again, I see.

They have a long-standing history of whitewashing their own history, even the recent stuff.

[No Elephants]

17. Filters down, too. Romney revised his personal history.

Marching with MLK, Jr., being more liberal than Ted Kennedy, hunting, pulling his car over on the way to Harvard and weeping when he heard the Mormon Church had finally lifted a ban on African Americans, his children serving their country, and on and on and on. Hey, Mitt...

[NoodleyAppendage]

12. Your stupid god made the genes buddy. Deal with it!

At least you are forced in your Dark Ages thinking to ascribe genetic materials to a higher power, so if you follow the logic and pay attention you would know that homosexuality is likely to have a genetic or epigenetic basis (at least in part). But, that would require you to come to terms with the prospect that your "Savior" created people who's behavior you find morally repugnant...but we all know you and your ilk are secretly interested in exploring. Reaction formation, buddy. Look it up.

J

[sarcasmo]

13. Organized religion the true Evil.

[movonne]

14. That church is so corrupt and racist...before the homosexuals it

was the blacks...

[and-justice-for-all]

16. Delusional nonsense...nt

[No Elephants]

18. inbred temptations--what does that even mean?