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What about . . . Oh, say, a wedding photographer?
Let 'em all work, I say; and let ''em be open and honest about their prejudices. The free market will sort out 90% of the rest of it.

This may be an opinion?  Do you have a way to demonstrate the validity of this opinion.  Without question religion is a major factor in human evolution.  The assumption that human society would evolve values without religion is ignoring the historical facts.  I am not sure that human could even evolve intelligence without evolving religion. 
 
Can you point to any civilization that evolved values without some contact with religion?  We may speculate over which came first but then that is speculation.   I do not believe that one can evolve without the other.  Do you have any examples that prove otherwise?  

PC.  As I have read some of the posts of this thread there is something blatantly missing.  We must also realize that any person that is involved in supporting gay marriage cannot be considered a unprejudiced lawyer or judge for any citizen opposed to gay marriage in a court of law.   When political correctness becomes included in the law - of necessity the law becomes prejudiced and biased. 

The problem is that western society is moving from punishing an individual’s actions/behavior to punishing a person for his thoughts or beliefs.
 
We have a history of discriminating against people just for how they looked, and you think its progress to punish someone because of what they think?
 
This group made a covenant agreeing to keep their sexual activity within the bounds of heterosexual marriage and now they are being prevented from practicing law? A covenant to honor heterosexual marriage…sounds awful familiar. How long before Mormons are banned from employment in Canada because they too make this same covenant?
 
When it comes to LDS it’s not par for course and the shoe is on the other foot. Our people had to flee their country because our beliefs and behavior were not tolerated. 
 
There are no new victims here..it’s just the same old ones. My hope is that one day people in these groups with their self-righteous indignations and demand for historical reparations and “victim” rights will look in the mirror and recognize the face of evil. 

Thank you for explaining it to me on a Kindergarten level.  No sarcasm. I'm really grateful when someone explains it in terms of magic. That makes as much sense to me as all the other Pig Latin of computer language.

The government is putting their secular/humanist religious beliefs in their decisions to govern and in so doing are discriminating against a graduates of a religious college.
 
...and it's a bad thing. 

Nonsense. Religion dictates values. Values dictate morality. Morality dictates governance. 

Separation of church and state means, and has always meant, that there is no state church and no church state. It means that the religious organization is not the government and the government does not dictate religion. It does not mean, nor has it ever meant, that religious people are banned from participating in government.

Sacrament meeting in the evening.....Primary held during the week. On fast Sunday you never had to go back to church in the evening.

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So, just for information's sake, I just read three other translations of this story - The New International Version, The Living Bible and The Revised Standard Version. All three say that "they" in the King James Version is the brothers who pulled Joseph out of the well, not the Midianites.  And Reuben was inexplicably away at the time that Joseph was sold.
 
I've never delved into the Bible stories before like I have this year, teaching Primary. Wow, the things you learn as a teacher!

So, just for information's sake, I just read three other translations of this story - The New International Version, The Living Bible and The Revised Standard Version. All three say that "they" in the King James Version is the brothers who pulled Joseph out of the well, not the Midianites.  And Reuben was inexplicably away at the time that Joseph was sold.
 
I've never delved into the Bible stories before like I have this year, teaching Primary. Wow, the things you learn as a teacher!

I'm a mom of 7. Superperson, I'm not. My brain is fried. I'm a Mormon.

Possibly. Half truths are one of Satan's most powerful tools. And diplomacy is always beneficial. I see this as diplomacy. It gives a way in for those who, as he stated, refuse to even have the dialog because they are accused of racism. It opens up opportunities for some consideration of homosexuality and gay-marriage that might otherwise not be open.
 
Yes, I agree, the tactic could be considered biblical. How many organizations and leaders through the ages have picked and chosen from certain biblical principles to sway their followers to an evil end though?
 
Good and evil are not so black-and-white. Should we view every kind approach as good? If I am kindly swaying you to murder your brother, does it qualify as praiseworthy?

(slapping head) Thanks for fixing the link. More senior moment than I should be having at my age. I'm not blonde either. No excuse.
 
Good way to stall out a perfectly good discussion: 1) Spell Mormon wrong and 2) Let Lakumi and Jerome have a sword fight while you mess around trying to fix the obvious problem.
 
I still can't copy and paste like I used to though and the quote button doesn't seem to be working either.

I don't really care for the blog that much, but I think that the notion that MormOns are fairly normal and go about life in a routine, expected way is helpful in a missionary sense. More people than not are more likely to be interested in a religion that acts as a bonus addition to everyday life than one that weighs one down with cultish behaviors and constrictions. (Amish, Moonies, etc.)  We also have the Fundamentalist identity to contend with. Every time they make it into the news it skews the reality of who we are.
 
So I think it's helpful to appear like regular folks. But I draw the line of blending in with the world at lightening up on standards like the Word of Wisdom, chastity, language and such. We HAVE to maintain our peculiarity in these areas or there wouldn't be much reason for the Church to exist.
 
As far as doctrinal normalcy, we need to maintain our beliefs there, too but those beliefs aren't going to show up very much in day to day conversation and in how we interact with people. I think I would act the same way I do if I believed in a different Godhead or if I had no idea what the priesthood was.

(slapping head) Thanks for fixing the link. More senior moment than I should be having at my age. I'm not blonde either. No excuse.
 
Good way to stall out a perfectly good discussion: 1) Spell Mormon wrong and 2) Let Lakumi and Jerome have a sword fight while you mess around trying to fix the obvious problem.
 
I still can't copy and paste like I used to though and the quote button doesn't seem to be working either.

I corrected the link in the OP.
 
As Maureen mentioned normons was spelled incorrectly when the OP put normans.

I watched it and I thought it was absolutely beautiful just the way they did it.  I've sung in large choirs and have done The Messiah.  I loved this concert from the MoTab.