Roy,
I was drafted at the end of the Korean War during the end of my 1953-54 school year which was on the 1/4 system at that time. When I came home from the military, I already had a wife and Child, with 3 more to follow within the next 3 years.
I missed going on a mission, but all of my children did, as did all of my grand children to date; as did most of our relatives.
Yes, Roy, I am aware that we are rapidly approaching 17 million world wide with about 8 million of them in the United States. I also realize that California, where I live, we have more Mormons than Utah. I realize that we have members in each state of the Union. Yes, I know that tin Hawai, we are the second largest Church in the state. Second only to the Catholics. Why must you partonize me?
When the Church, home based in Utah, and itâs University, aslo home based in Utah, made itâs push into California elections demanding that marriage is defined between one man and one woman because that is what they believed, and the Church and the University from Utah, won that election until it was over turned by the Supreme Court, just what is it Roy, that the Church and University was doing if it was not forcing their religion on those that did not want to acccept it?
Roy, you may or may not be correct, (Having the right to cross state lines to affect an election that is being held in a state that is not our own state) I am not 100% positive one way or the other, but I seriously doubt that any people , morallly, has the right, outside of their own state to try to affect the outcome of elections in another state. We see the Koke (sp) brothers doing it in each state, spending millions of dollars to buy those elections, but that does not make it morally right. I still hope that morality still means something to us.
Yes Roy, and as retribution, the LGBT community, that we greatly offended, by trying to keep them from what they strongly believed in, (Prop 8), they now feel that they have the right to try to keep us out of the Pac 12, the Big 12, and all other Power Conferences that we will ever try to get into.
So to speak Roy, Whatâs good for the Goose is good for the Gander. As ye sew, so shall ye reep. Do onto others, as ye would have them do onto you. My point Roy, is not to take the side of the LGBT community over the LDS community. That is not my point at all. My point is that we need to be much, much, much more aware of the harm we do to ourselves before we try to shift gears before putting down the clutch. I am sure that you are old enought to remember the stick shifts which we use to enjoy in our youth.
Roy, would it be better to bury our heads in the sand, and say that (right or wrong) we are right because we have a policy, and regardless of what the other 300 million people (+ -) believe in the United States, it just doesnât matter what they believe or what their policy is becasus we are right and all that do not agree with us is wrong? Is this what we are??
I hope not.