Mormon church says bishop acting alone in civil union fight

[WillParkinson]

Mormon church says bishop acting alone in civil union fight

(Chicago, Illinois) The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints says that an Illinois bishop was acting alone in sending an e-mail to members of his ward urging them to oppose a civil union bill before the state legislators.

But the Utah-based denomination has not ruled out becoming involved in the issue in the future.

The e-mail, sent to at least one LDS ward in Illinois, was authorized by Bishop Chris Church of the Nauvoo, Illinois, 3rd Ward, and was sent out by that website’s ward administrator.

It urges members of the church to call their local legislators and tell them to oppose the bill. The e-mail claims that civil unions would “empower the public schools to begin teaching this lifestyle to our young children regardless of parental requests otherwise.” It goes on to also claim that “it will also create grounds for rewriting all social mores.”

The e-mail raised the concerns of national LGBT civil rights groups. The Mormon Church was instrumental in the passage of anti-gay measures in a number of states.

http://www.365gay.com/news/mormon-church-says-bishop-acting-alone-in-civil-union-fight/

[TechBear_Seattle]

1. The LDS is *extremely* authoritarian and hierarchic

Church would not have acted on his own initiative.

[WillParkinson]

2. I am beginning to think...

The LDS is on LSD.

Just my opinion, of course. I'm acting on my own.

[norepubsin08]

3. Nobody in that Church acts alone

the entire cult has "Stepford Wife Syndrome".

[NMMNG]

5. Indeed

They are the Morg. There is no autonomy there.

[Democrats_win]

4. False religion is devoted to anti-gay issues, but NOT to GOD!

Look at how Rush Limbaugh joked about how he was better than God. Yet no one is standing up for God by criticizing or acting against Rush Limbaugh, the new shining one, aka Lucifer.

In fact, gays are doing God's work by helping expose the true nature of false religion.