mrmarklin

Relax. Unless he rides regularly with friends or a club, he won't be on it much. Average motorcyclist rides 1,500 miles per year. If he has no experience, insist he take a rider safety and proficiency class. Most States require this for novices anyway.

The information is on the website of the ward.

Sorry, Anatess. Just noticed the date of your story.:-)

Anatess, that is simply not a true story. Please give TaxCourt cites.

"The coldest winter I ever spent was summer in San Francisco." -Mark Twain

Any one who has a business or rental property needs professional help whether they realize it or not. The laws are increasingly complex in these areas.

My granddaughter goes to a very nice private school, with none of the political correctness extant in the public arena. The Church used to have schools other than its university program. I was particularly saddened when the school in Mexico City closed. Not only can we control what is taught to our own children, these can be great missionary tools as well. I think the Church is really missing the boat here. Unfortunately, my granddaughter's school is of another faith, not ours.

Read ALL the article that you cite. It clearly states near the end that not all the papyri were recovered. The article only states that the recovered items could be a part of what he had. Detractors had refused to believe up to that point that he ever had any at all.

Yes, Jane, really quite disgusting.

Quite a few years ago my son was sent home from his mission because he was in a vehicle accident and broke his jaw. The mission wanted us to take care of his medical care. He later returned to finish an honorable mission. While he was gone, a missionary expropriated his bicycle and totally unbeknownst to me he (my son) was provided a new one. After he got home, many months later, I received a bill from the church for the bicycle. Can't remember the amount but it was not inexpensive. I initially refused to pay it, as I felt the mission had some responsibility in letting another elder use his bicycle. We ended up negotiating something, but I really let the mission President have it. I absolutely refused to pay the full amount, because my son left the machine behind.

1 One is allowed $800 of items free of duty. Most missionaries are not buying many things. 2 As a person who travels extensively, I can tell you that carrying an iPad around is the functional equivalent of wearing a jacket. It would never occur to me to declare this. iPads are ubiquitous.

It's defined in the Book of Mormon as using religion to "get gain". I really can't think of any examples off hand...................;-)

Yes, where is this park? I'm from the People's Republik of Kalifornia.:-)

Even the people you mentioned have a right to declare the appropriate income to their government, and pay taxes.....One can choose for whom one works, of course.There's a saying in the tax business: 95% of the people will admit to cheating on their taxes. The other 5% are lying. Since everyone's guilty--what to do? But again, I will venture that if I were invited to a wedding by a gay friend or client, I would likely go. As I would for any friends or clients. And how much more a friend is the OPs brother? Us mormons have a real problem in one sense, in that anything less than a temple marriage is damnation (D&C 132:4), right? So why would we go to any wedding that doesn't lead to exaltation? Just legalized shacking up, in essence. That's the logical conclusion to the argument against going.

I'm a CPA. Do I do tax returns for a married gay couple, helping them benefit from their abomination? If the answer is yes, why wouldn't I have gone to the wedding had I been invited? Does anyone but me see where this leads?

That would depend on whether I'm mentioned in the will......:-)

I'm shocked at some of the bigotry on this thread. If I had a gay friend at work (or any work friend for that matter), and he or she were getting married, I would go to the wedding as a friend. How much closer friend can one have than a brother? The OP should go to the wedding, as he would for a mere friend-to celebrate a life event. How this condones anything else is beyond me. I've been to many weddings of friends of other religions. Not because I support the religion, but because these people are friends and it's important to support them in what they want if they're not harming others. How are two gay people marrying harming anyone? I've even been to weddings that were totally secular. So what? It's obvious that many here have had no contact at all with the gay community. I'm going to give you all a hint: they're just like regular people.

If she believes the church is true and will follow the prophet she should be baptized. There is an interview system to determine this. I think the missionary is out of line.

Very typical European attitude. We Americans should realize that someone who has not grown up with the 2d Amendment tradition would have a very difficult time understanding it. Even here, as the US becomes increasingly urbanized, there are many who have never owned a firearm and don't understand those who do. Nevertheless, gun ownership is a right here in the US, although I live in a State of the union where many would take it away, and in fact have done so for many types of firearms.

Just observing the jist of the argument.

I think you're all missing the point of the second amendment. The principal reason it was placed in the constitution was to protect ourselves from a tyrannical government. All else, such as hunting, self defense, etc. is a side benefit Americans largely accept the trade off that freedom is worth the price of a relatively few nut jobs misusing firearms.

Having been to Europe many time as well as having a very good fried who is English living near Manchester I think it's fair to say that the average European has a completely different attitude regarding gun control than we have here in the US. There is no such thing as a Second Amendment AFAIK in any part of Europe. People who live there historically grew up under monarchies, and a fair amount continue to do so, even if the constitutional variety. In the UK for example, there is no written constitution, even though it is regularly discussed. Hunting is largely the preserve of the wealthy because all land is privately owned and a hunting lease must be purchased from the landowner. It's not cheap. Having big tracts of public land to hunt for free like we do here in the western US is simply not an option. In my discussions with people in Europe I sense a lot of reverse snobbery against hunting which is class driven IMHO. In the UK the Labor government banned fox hunting just because they could--sticking it to the Nobs so to speak. So trying to convince someone in Europe how we feel about gun ownership is an act of cultural futility.

The best thing that ever happened to the Mormons was getting kicked out of Missouri. The weather is terrible.

Regardless of how one may feel about the merits of the "big four", since 1930 it has been the policy of the Church that use of them is cause to deny one admittance to the temples. Personally, I can live with this as being similar to the Jewish food rules. Those rules are obsolete in these modern times, but the Jews still observe these rules as commandments as well as part of "Jewishness". Observing the prohibition of the big four is a part of Mormonness!

Chili chocolate.......the best. Heat? Bring it on!