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For reasons, the POX has been swapped with choosing First Presidency counselors as an example of revelation:

https://wheatandtares.org/2018/09/08/ex ... lum-again/

So that's that... for now, I guess. We're still left with the problem that President Nelson thinks every thought he feels good about is a revelation.

They know how toxic that policy is to members that are seminary age, so they took the cowards way out to just throw something else in its place.

Revelation doesn't come from God - it comes from focus groups.

Let me first state that having "POX" as the unofficial acronym of the "November 2015 Policy of Exclusion" truly warms my skeptical heart. It's almost as much fun as "Ziontology".

As many of you know, my oldest child is a daughter who is entirely Lesbian and did marry her delightful girlfriend last year. It was a lovely ceremony. Shortly before this event, my middle daughter was enrolled in seminary and I received the weekly lesson summary from her instructor. Usually it's the common "church is true, build your testimony, modern prophets are awesome, and the priesthood is just what we need". But one week it absolutely talked about how homosexuality is a sin and should not really be tolerated.

I asked middle daughter about this and she got teary-eyed from the obvious cognitive dissonance collapsing on her. She told me that she would never turn her back on her dear older sister. It was a really nice moment between us, and a shot across the bow for the LDS church. This is the vanguard of millennials that are simply not going to follow this doctrinal instruction from a church that hopes they will remain tithe-paying, life-long believers.

Oh hell yeah, middle daughter with that good sister loyalty. This is the thing that's going to bring the most change for good in our community—people like middle daughter realizing that the church has it out for people they love and care about.

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Corsair wrote: ↑Sun Sep 09, 2018 6:55 pm Let me first state that having "POX" as the unofficial acronym of the "November 2015 Policy of Exclusion" truly warms my skeptical heart.

Absolutely, plus such an association with a disease deadlier than the bubonic plague helps us better understand the nature of that policy.