An ominous developement for Middle Way Mormons

[Anonymous]

I’ve been involved in getting together with other less-than-orthodox members in Atlanta and in Wash DC where we’ve been living. I’ve enjoyed it a lot. It was never a “movement” or anything more than people just being social: hanging out eating food and having good conversation.

Some were family events with the kids all playing. Some were at a local pub or pizza joint with just a few adults. I’ve been doing this for a couple years (way before there was any rumors flying around recently). There’s another guy here locally in DC that hosts an academic “study group” monthly on a somewhat regular basis. There’s usually 40 or 50 people there. Just went to one last night. He invited a member of the Church who worked at the FBI Crime Lab at Quantico, and is an expert in Mitochondrial DNA, to talk about the science of forensic DNA, with a tie-in to the Book of Mormon issues. It was fascinating.

Actually, my wife gets pretty happy about it too. She is more social than I am. She wants nothing to do with Church formally, but she has a great time getting together in a positive way with these groups of friends.

[Anonymous]

Hi All,

Limha, you said:

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If anything, the LDS church has already gone way too far in the direction of accomodationism.

Limha, not sure what you mean by accomodationism but I am assuming you mean “permissiveness”. In what aspects in how church leaders have acted do you feel that way ?

Of the two changes I know of, one is that the church doesn’t excommunicate an unmarried heterosexual couple who are living together. They may impose restrictions on temple attendance or take away other privileges(taking the sacrament, for example).

The only other change I know of is the Church leadership’s policy on what is acceptable in sexual practice in marriage where as long as both are in agreement then anything is ok. Sorry, I am paraphrasing. I don’t have the exact written policy on that particular matter.

And if these are examples of “accomodationism” i would have to say these are very positive changes for members of the church – positive because I feel leaders have come to recognize that people are human and too many restrictions would frustrate general membership of the church toward the “rules” of the church that seem “outdated” or overly restrictive.

BLC

[Anonymous]

Very good questions, BLC – but they really should be addressed in a separate post where we can focus on them. If you want to open a new thread to ask those questions, feel free to do so.

This has been a wonderful thread, but I’m closing the comments on it now. Thanks everyone for your input. Ray

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