Politics promotes or exposes you

I watched a KSL news clip with Steve Young on Proposition 8 "Steve Young corrects involvement in Prop. 8." I have no respect left for him, as a church member. I now have a better understanding as to why the Lord hates the luke-warm people.

Young said his wife's actions and statements are not his own. Which I find to be a fair stance. She's for gay marriage due to a family member. Basically she fears man more than God.

Carol Mikita got a phone statement from him she played on the air that also went on to state that he loves his church and has the utmost respect for it's leaders, but stated he will not make a public statement on prop 8.

I'm upset that Young won't stand up for his core belief system. He's setting a bad example for the rest of the church, showing that it's ok to be afraid to state your true feelings, I no longer view Steve Young as an upstanding member. He fears man (more particularly his wife and her gay siblings) than God.


Which brings me to something a friend of mine emailed me. The following are excerpts from a talk given by Elder Neal A. Maxwell in...ready for this? 1978!

This is further evidence that Heavenly Father is real, that he does exist and truly can see the beginning and the end. I'm just glad traditional marriage is safe, for now.


You can find this talk "A More Determined Discipleship" on LDS.org

"Make no mistake about it, brothers and sisters, in the months and years ahead, events are likely to require each member to decide whether or not he will follow the First Presidency. Members will find it more difficult to halt longer between two opinions.
President Marion G. Romney said, many years ago, that he had 'never hesitated to follow the counsel of the Authorities of the Church even though it crossed my social, professional or political life.'


"This is hard doctrine, but it is particularly vital doctrine in a society which is becoming more wicked. In short, brothers and sisters, not being ashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ includes not being ashamed of the prophets of Jesus Christ.
. . . Your discipleship may see the time when such religious convictions are discounted. . . . This new irreligious imperialism seeks to disallow certain opinions simply because those opinions grow out of religious convictions.


"Resistance to abortion will be seen as primitive. Concern over the institution of the family will be viewed as unready and unenlightened.... Before the ultimate victory of the forces of righteousness, some skirmishes will be lost. Even in these, however, let us leave a record so that the choices are clear, letting others do as they will in the face of prophetic counsel.

There will also be times, happily, when a minor defeat seems probable, but others will step forward, having been rallied to rightness by what we do. We will know the joy, on occasion, of having awakened a slumbering majority of the decent people of all races and creeds which was, till then, unconscious of itself.
Jesus said that when the fig trees put forth their leaves, 'summer is nigh.' Thus warned that summer is upon us, let us not then complain of the heat."

-- Elder Neal A. Maxwell