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Author Archives: Doug Gibson
Why is prayer defined as a genie who grants selective pleas?
Why do so many church lessons about the power of prayer always have to follow this format: Either the man upstairs magisterially — like a genie — grants your frantic plea for personal safety or personal betterment, or he prompts … Read More
Posted in The Political Surf
Tagged Boasting, God, Heavenly Father, Mercy, Natural law, Pleas, Prayer, Tragedy
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Religious left: Jesus frowns on Paul Ryan, deficit reduction
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, as well as several dozen other leftist Catholic clergy, have decided that Jesus Christ does not approve of GOP Rep. Paul Ryan’s 10-year deficit reduction plan. According to these left-wing heirs to the previous … Read More
LDS Church is slowly, but consistently moving to tolerance on homosexuality
(To see Cal Grondahl’s cartoon that goes with this post, click here.) We have an online letter in our newspaper, describing homosexuality as a crime against nature. (Read) Not surprisingly, it’s generated a lot of heated responses, most opposed. I … Read More
‘Julia’ ad fascinating for its sheer ideological purity
President Obama’s new web campaign ad, “The Life of Julia,” (watch) is perhaps the most blatantly statist political advertisement yet from one of the two major parties. Pitched, I suspect to single women, primarily those college-aged and worried about the … Read More
Jon Huntsman is still dissing his GOP presidential opponents
Jon Huntsman resurfaces with a vanilla boring interview in the Deseret News (here) The “news” is that he will campaign for fellow Mormon Mitt Romney, since he’s the “best of the options we have” running for president. But outside of the … Read More
Posted in The Political Surf
Tagged 2012 presidential race, Deseret News, Jeff Greenfield, Jon Huntsman, Mitt Romney, Republican Party
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High court appears skeptical of sole federal oversight of immigration
Based on arguments today, the U.S. Supreme Court appears ready to throw away the idea that federal immigration laws automatically disqualify any state’s efforts to control illegal immigration.
Memo to high priests: the 1950s were not better
“Boy, I wish we lived in the 1950s.” “We are definitely in the last days.” “The amount of sin and unrighteousness has tripled since I was a young man in the 1950s.” “I’d prefer to live in the 1950s.” Those … Read More
Posted in The Political Surf
Tagged 1950s, 2012, High Priests, Nostalgia, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Today
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It appears Hatch will avoid a last-hurrah scenario this year
Nine months ago, I wouldn’t have bet a nickel on Sen. Orrin’s Hatch’s chances of getting re-elected. Trying to ask Utah voters for 42 years as U.S. senators seemed galling. Hatch reminds me of a character in a Harry Potter … Read More
Same-sex relationship sent LDS Church patriarch into exile
In October 1946, Joseph F. Smith II, LDS Church patriarch, was released from his calling in LDS General Conference. He had not served for several months, the official reason being that he was ill, confined to his home in Centerville, … Read More
Posted in The Political Surf
Tagged Byram Dow Downing, Disfellowship, Excommunication, Gary James Bergera, George Albert Smith, Hawaii, Homosexuality, Joseph Smith II, Journal of Mormon History, LDS Church patriarch, Mormon history, Ruth Pingree Smith, Same-sex attraction, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
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