(DISCLAIMER: This rant is specifically geared to my friends that are active members of the LDS Church....and is just that. A rant.)
How is it possible to be an active member of the church and be a Liberal?!
I'm just wondering...is all....
I don't really mean to instigate anything....(or maybe subconsciously I do....) but the fact of the matter is....HOW?
Maybe I'm missing some key piece of information that others have?
Maybe my thinking is not as "progressive" or I'm missing a few steps in their line of thinking?
Because I'm just not getting it. I don't. Can someone please explain it to me?
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Hee, hee - that's funny. Because I was just thinking the same thing in the opposite direction. How is it possible to be an active member of the church and be conservative? Really. I think that all the time. And in some ways I don't know that it can be explained, but is something innate, within us, that just has us lean one way over another.
Because I don't think that I could ever talk anyone into understanding why I lean liberal....but it just is what feels righter to me than the other way around.
Oh, and I am active:) Loved your rant!
I read your blog - and I liked what you had to say, about questioning - because we all have to continue to search and ponder.... I get that.
I just don't understand some of the more "liberal" leans... (not saying it's you I'm talking about...'cuz it wasn't you..)
Like the leaning I'm talking about - voting FOR gay marriage...FOR late term abortion... THAT kind of thinking. THAT'S the stuff I am trying to understand...? Does that make sense?
I'm all for questioning. You're right that it drives us and inspires us to be better...instead of unquestioning and led like lambs...
But I think (my opinion) that liberal thinking tends to focus too much on the gray shades of issues - instead of the black or white....
Just my opinion. :) And I still love you tremendously Jacks..!! Even if you are a liberal... ;) LOL
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