And he would have if the excommunicant didn’t blab away to other members about disagreements with doctrine. The stake president decided that members needed to know that he was now excommunicated and was no longer a member in good standing.
What the Catholic Church did about this one incident doesn’t apply here.
I answered that in post # 17. Archbishop Milingo’s situation was nothing like Lamborn’s.
The article claims polygamy and his ignorance. I posted a church sponsored site that details polygamy. He said that the church was hiding it. It wasn’t. So what’s the problem.
Lambron had leadership roles in the lds church at the local level. He was elder’s quorum president four times and was currently a teacher in sunday school or high priesthood meeting. He had authority. He was not a nobody in the lds church.
Actually this is not true. Lamborn had several callings or responsibilities of leadership in his local church. He was not a nobody. He had certain authority with his responsibilities. And this was also the problem. Here is a section of the article:
Almost every active male in the Mormon Church holds those types of positions at one time or another. I was Elders Quorum President for five years, but that’s not a calling of any particular note. I was a returned missionary. There are tens of thousands of them. There are thousands who have been EQ Presidents. I don’t think this would have happened anywhere else in the Mormon Church except with this Stake President. They just don’t do those types of announcements anymore. The Stake President poured gas on the equivalent of a very small ember and it has blown up in his face.
What was he teaching that was false, do you know? If it was just stuff thats out in the open as you say anyway, then what’s the problem?
That’s the real problem here. Lamborn was actually telling the truth about problems with Mormon history. He wasn’t preaching any false doctrine. The Mormon leaders in southern Arizona don’t want Mormons to know that Joseph Smith was marrying the wives of other men, 14 year old girls, etc.
How ridiculous. Good luck to them.
please stop with the LDS spin. have you even read the paper that printing press was going to publish? Joseph smith was doing bad things, he was going to be exposed and abused his position to destroy the newspaper. the “stability” of the mormon community at that time (which was already a problem) was in jeopardy because of the leadership of joseph smith. his original witnesses to the BoM were in many cases being publicly denounced by Joseph himself. He was at odds with his own counselors and was trying to run for president amongst all of this. you need to read William Law’s account. ( he was one of josephs counselors in the first presidency) you can read the actual nauvoo expositor ans see what was going to be printed. perhaps joseph should have stayed away from other men’s wives, not to mention the young daughters and stayed faithful to his own wife none of this would have happened.
I agee. in fact my reaction when reading this is not why are the LDS bishops doing this-it was why ae the catholic Bishops NOT doing this.
And how do you know that he did not? Did you ask him?
Are you purposely disregarding the fact that the guy in the article stated he had 1,000 different reasons to come to the conclusion that the Church can’t be what it claimed to be? (so obviously polygamy was just the jumping off point) Or did you just not bother to read the article you keep commenting on?For the same reason why catholic parishes throughout the United States had Da Vinci Code seminars. Get the point?
Also, I posted an lds sponsored website that contains polygamy. Our excommunicated friend could have read that site if he had the mind too.
After all he did search the web right?
It was worse than that for ol’ Joe. People had caught wind of that he was practicing polygamy. He denied it, absolutely and very publicly. And he did as whyme is doing here, he blamed public slander and antimormon sentiments. When in fact, Joe was lying through his teeth. William Law knew the truth. He knew Joe was lying his *** off and he was going to expose this lie in the Nauvoo Expositor. Joe got wind of this and ordered that the printing press be destroyed.
They were also afraid for their civil liberties and their safety. Joseph Smith’s private army, The Nauvoo Legion, was 2nd only to the US Army in its size.