Mormon Artist Jon McNaughton

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TexanKnight said:
He was nude in a hottub with a 15-year old…and says “nothing happened”…right.

What amazes me is that he was later called to Church positions.

Now, when I was LDS, I was always told "
the Lord has called you to this position.". I was told that only after prayer was I given the calling.

Are we to believe that the Lord told the LDS Church to call this pedophile to a leadership position?

No, before you go comparing this to the Priest scandal, let me be clear that I do NOT defend the Priests…but no one ASKED the priests to be Priests and none of them were ever called AFTER they had done their crimes to tell them that the Lord had called them to be Priests.

If the LDS Church is led as it claims to be led, how did that happen? Was the LDS god just wrong again?
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You know, the funny thing is, when he made his resignation speech which garnered the standing ovation, he left out a whole lot of the details.

How forthright 🤷
 
RebeccaJ said:
This painting is the one that is referenced:

It’s very much in line with Mormon belief/doctrine. It is way over the top conservative, that’s for sure.

For a school that has a fair number of non-US students, I can see how the nationalism might put people off.
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In my opinion, that picture is an exaggeration, a politicized distortion of LDS doctrine.

Not unlike those Catholics you might know who make arguments that the Catholic Church needs to “prioritize” on helping the poor, and that in order to do so needs to drop its position on abortion and homosexuality, etc. The Gospel is an symphony, and those that seize on one single note of that symphony, and pound it incessantly, are losing touch with Jesus’ message.

I think that you are partially right; the Bookstore’s concerns re cultural sensitivity towards international students is probably a small part of the picture, but there’s more to it than that. Like the Catholic Church, the LDS church has members of various political persuasions. We all have to take care to focus on Jesus, rather than some of us going after Apollos and some after Paul.
 
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