Spiritual defender: Rep. Gowdy's Defense of the ENFORCE the Law Act (+playlist)

Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Rep. Gowdy's Defense of the ENFORCE the Law Act (+playlist)

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RAYLOKEMarch 25, 2014 at 8:50 AM
ENFORCE he LAW as in Empowered to Perform ACCORDINGLY ; ...YES GREAT GLORY indeed is truly plus REALLY immediate as in instant Awakening of His IMAGE in SPIRIT ABSOLUTELY , .... is obliviously UNIQUE OBVIOUSLY ; HAHAHA ! ... TRULY UNFIT to be NORMAL Naturally plus Absolutely is but only UNIQUE OBLIVIOSLY ; ...YES AMAZING plus Astounding Abundance of SPECIS makes the RAINBOW truly BEAUTIFUL in all it's Distinctly Different colors altogether as ALL within ONE RAINBOW ABSOLUTELY ; ... ALL Rainbows are ALIKE IN DEED ; TRULY UNIQUE in likeness with all its COLORS in one is WELLNESS ABSOLUTELY ; ...HAHAHA ! .... YES LOVE YOUR ENEMIES, And, The Last is FIRST ; ...LIKE IT or not, BELIEVE or not, REALISTICALLY...he is but only human truly means he is IMPERFECT just like all of us ; ....YES EMBRACE or BRACE FOR MASS EXODUS ; .........But in both Catholicism and Mormonism, there's often nowhere else to go. It's either love it or leave it.

I think it's likely that over the coming years these churches are going to confront a stark choice: Reform themselves in light of equality or watch their parishioners opt for the exits. In droves.

Think about it: Men and women in the pews now live in a world in which nearly all obstacles to women's equality have been torn down. Where once women were relegated to submissive and subservient roles in the family, now domestic gender egalitarianism is the norm. Where once women were excluded from participating in politics — including denial of the vote — such strictures are now unimaginable. Colleges and universities that were once all-male have become coed. Just about every career that once excluded women is now open to them — including that most traditionally masculine occupation, military service. And so forth.

None of this is new. But this is: The churches are now largely populated by people who have no living memory of it ever having been otherwise. Living, studying, working, and voting in a world marked by ever-increasing recognition of the equal dignity of men and women, they go to church on Sunday and confront our culture's last significant institutional vestige of inequality — when that very institution worships the God who is the ultimate source of our egalitarianism.

The contradictions are unsustainable.

And they've already started to have a destabilizing impact.

Last year, several Mormons formed a group called Ordain Women and tried to gain admission to the all-male priesthood session of the church's semiannual General Conference at Temple Square in Salt Lake City. They were turned away. In an effort to avoid a repeat demonstration, the church has now banned the group from Temple Square during the upcoming General Conference on April 5. While a 2011 poll found that only 8 percent of Mormon women (and, oddly, 13 percent of Mormon men) support extending priestly ordination to women, this defensive move by the church is bound to raise the profile of the group and its cause. Combined with broader cultural trends in favor of equality, those numbers are bound to rise in the coming years.

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