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Paul Fisher's Letter To The Mormon Church

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If a man submits to himself and commits to live the standards of the church he can live in peace and in harmony with his Same-sex attraction and his religion. According to the LDS church, there is a positive relationship and welcoming to the gay people in the church and as stated in the church’s teachings, everyone who identify themselves as homosexuals are
Cruz 3 welcome in the church. We need to listen to and understand what our LGBT brothers and sisters are feeling and experiencing. Certainly, we must do better than we have done in the past so that all members feel they have a spiritual home where their brothers and sisters love them and where they have a place to worship and serve the Lord” (Deseret News). There are many faithful members of the church who experience same-sex attraction and who live in harmony with the teachings of the church as a result, they are happy men and women who accept themselves as they are. …show more content…

Paul wrote a letter directly to the first presidency of the LDS church in which he talks about his son committing suicide in February 2016. Paul said that his son Harry was a student at Brigham Young University, a returned missionary and a teacher in his ward. A week before committing suicide Harry posted on Facebook that he was gay. Instead of receiving help and acceptance from others to live a happy life Harry received many cruel comments. As a reply Harry posted how hard it was to be gay in the LDS community and finding no help he decided to drive to the Israel Canyon, west of Utah, and shot himself. His father Paul said the following in his letter to the church, "This is sad, but there is something much sadder for faithful, gay Mormons than cruel comments. That is the lack of a place for them in the church they believe in Harry had a choice between marrying a person he was not

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The members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, or “Mormons”, as they are more commonly called, have been around since 1830. The church was founded by a man named Joseph Smith in New York. Shortly thereafter the entire church body moved across the midwest, eventually to Missouri. It was there in Missouri where Governor Lilburn Boggs issued executive order fourty four or, as it is more commonly called, the “Extermination Order”. The Missouri executive order forty four was an order issued in 1838 by Governor Boggs, a former governor of the state of Missouri.

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Old fashioned, hand made clothing, reserved lives, playgrounds that only consist of a cement slab, and a school system that only teaches through the eighth grade are peculiar to the outside world. These oddities are just the surface of the unusual practices that take place in the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints. The FLDS church is one of the largest Mormon fundamentalist denominations and one of the largest organizations in the United States whose members practice polygamy. Polygamy is illegal, in 1890 the Mormon church ended its practice of polygamy, which created a split in the church. Fundamentalists moved to secluded areas where they could continue their practice of plural marriage.

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These teachings would later impact him during his career as a greatly proclaimed prophet and as an eventual messiah to the Native American people. His absorption of western religion continued along with his eventual came contact with the Mormon religion. By 1890, many Mormon families had migrated from Great Salt Lake Valley and settled throughout Nevada. The Mormons at the time had a unique fascination for Native Americans because they were believed to be descendants of the “Ten Lost Tribes” of the original Hebrews. The Mormons believed that the “…lost Hebrew emigrants were still ice-bound in the frozen north, whence they will one day emerge to rejoin their brethren in the south.”

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Joseph Smith, the leader of the Mormons, arrived in neighboring Jackson County in 1831 with a group of his followers. They believed that they would inherit the land that was already owned by earlier settlers through righteousness. This created tension between the Mormons and the earlier arrivals, and in 1833, the Mormons were forcibly driven from Jackson County. Many relocated to Clay County and later to Caldwell County, but lasting peace was not to be achieved. In 1838, Joseph Smith and several other Mormon leaders were arrested and jailed in Liberty over the winter.

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Many people have given their lives to further the growth of the Church throughout the world and indeed many have admitted that even if God Himself were to visit them and suggest Joseph Smith was not really His messenger, they would not believe him, but would rather believe in Joseph Smith. This type of fanatical belief is indicative of how this belief has grown and perhaps that it may well be considered in the realm of “cultism” as well as simple religion? This type of fanatical belief is not limited to the Mormon Church. Indeed you find it in the Catholic Church and many of the southern Baptist churches and other protestant faiths throughout the world and certainly in the Moslem religion.

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Smith and his brother were arrested in 1844. Later a mob stormed the jail and killed them both. Mormons consider Smith a martyr. Others say he died in a violent

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Stated in Mormons and the Bible, Barlow explains that Joseph Smith’s theological process as baraufication, meaning that he gathered and organized ideas and concepts from different traditions and formulated a new one, Mormonism. When Joseph was a teenager he started praying about which religion to join. He would go to the woods behind his house in New York, prayed and felt immoral powers fighting him. He was then rescued by a bright light, thus was Smith’s first vision and the light of the start of it all. In the bright light he claims that God and angels appeared before him telling him to not join any church because none of the churches had all the truth and that they also had work for him.

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This was a statement outlining the LDS Church’s views on marriage and gender roles. The proclamation illustrated that men and women are equal in marriage, but husband must bring structure to the marriage like a bishop and Priesthood holder. This indicates the husband is responsible for all that comes with the priesthood, bible study for the family, and the spatial welling of the family; while the wife is responsible for Primary, Relief Society and the family’s wellbeing. Even though the husband is to lead the wife this does not mean he is a dictator rather he is like Adam who ruled over Eve.

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One of the more well-known restrictions is the rule against drinking alcohol. In the Mormon book of covenants, it specifically bans the use of alcohol saying, “That inasmuch as any man drinketh wine or strong drink among you, behold it is not good, neither meet in the sight of your Father, only in assembling yourselves together to offer up your sacraments before him..” Mormons have bans for alcohol because they believe God promised them good health if they abide by his law of health. Stated in their covenant, “And all saints who remember to keep and do these sayings, walking in obedience to the commandments, shall receive health in their navel and marrow to their bones;”. By following the Lord’s commandments, it keeps the Mormon population faithful to one another

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My family was a part of a subcategory of Mormonism referred to as “Jack Mormons” Mormons who didn’t go to church or participate in family home evenings. I can see now my mom only used the church, for my security and to pay an occasional bill. The more my family used the church, the more the church

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