The Folk Prophet

Unfortunately, it is not about availability.  It is about government intervention.
Lumber can be grown at a very fast rate.  With more supply, lower costs.  But government is preventing private forests through environmental and tax intervention. Property taxes are just plain too high. Cities and counties have overly restrictive building codes.  And the enforcement by untrained bureaucrats causes compliance costs to go through the roof. Minimum wage causes all the little expenses to go up.  And they add up pretty fast. Put it all together, and there is no way to build a cheap home.

I have an alternate take. Probably highly controversial.
Stuffing cooked inside the turkey is gross.
Stovetop is the best!

I'm not saying that just to be contrary. I legitimately prefer Stovetop. Every time I go to a family gettogether where they've done some fancy schmancy stuffing I don't like it as well. Stovetop is, however, good, and every time we do our cheap out-of-the-box approach to stuffing/dressing, I enjoy it and crave more. It's one of my favorite parts of turkey dinners.
Either way, what comes out of a turkey is slimey, disgusting slop.

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/hymns/using-the-hymnbook?lang=eng&para=title8-p19#title8
Selecting Verses to Be Sung
You need not feel compelled to sing all the verses of a hymn unless the message is otherwise incomplete. However, do not routinely shorten a hymn by singing just the first one or two verses. Singing the verses printed below the music is encouraged.

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/hymns/using-the-hymnbook?lang=eng&para=title8-p19#title8
Selecting Verses to Be Sung
You need not feel compelled to sing all the verses of a hymn unless the message is otherwise incomplete. However, do not routinely shorten a hymn by singing just the first one or two verses. Singing the verses printed below the music is encouraged.

I don't believe these things are diametrically opposite.

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/hymns/using-the-hymnbook?lang=eng&para=title8-p19#title8
Selecting Verses to Be Sung
You need not feel compelled to sing all the verses of a hymn unless the message is otherwise incomplete. However, do not routinely shorten a hymn by singing just the first one or two verses. Singing the verses printed below the music is encouraged.

Yes. But the people you speak of who think he's stupid are, I'm supposing, not stutterers.

His way of speaking doesn't help. Slow and with lots of "um...."s thrown in, etc.

So you did.
When I said I don't care apparently I really meant it.
I hadn't, clearly, read your post.
Ah well. The embarrassments never end.

Too much work. Too little glory.  😀

So you did.
When I said I don't care apparently I really meant it.
I hadn't, clearly, read your post.
Ah well. The embarrassments never end.

It is worth it.
I trust in God that much. I trust accountability will be just.
How can one believe otherwise in today's world?
Either God is just or He is not.
The plain fact is that the garbage is unavoidable. And it's going to get worse. And worse. And worse.
It legitimately and truly frightens me, in particular for my children.
I'm going to run from it too...as much as possible, and as much as it doesn't mean betraying the covenants I made, which matter more to me than anything else.

I wrote up a large reply, but the more I consider the more I'm just not sure replying is going to be of much use. You don't seem to understand the import of covenants. Short of encouraging you to research and understand better... I'm just not sure what I can say. And saying more is probably only likely to offend further.
But as a starting point here's a link, as a reminder, that explains what covenants are made in the endowment, for example.
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/temples/what-is-temple-endowment?lang=eng
Moreover, you're clearly struggling with faith and testimony. 
The church is true or it isn't. What people do in a ward or stake doesn't change that. You need to know that core thing. I encourage you to find out through study, prayer, and faith.
Beyond that, best wishes in your endeavors.

@old
You still haven't said word one about covenants. I keep bringing it up. You keep ignoring it.

My position is irrelevant. I'm a rando on the internet.
God's position is the only one that matters.
If the church is God's church and the covenant path is His then you are damning yourself for leaving it. It has nothing to do with anyone else's position or anyone else's strength or weakness. 
If you don't believe The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is God's church then you don't believe it. And we disagree. And it's as simple as that.
But to claim that other's who DO believe this are weak for believing it doesn't hold a lot of water in my book. You're free to believe what you want and exercise your agency according to your convictions.

The Saints will be required to give all they have. All. There are no exceptions. Their fortune, their family, their very lives will be required at the hand of God. Just as certainly as Christ told the rich young man to give all he had to the poor and follow him, and just as surely as king Lamoni's father offered not only his sins, but all he had, even to forsake his kingdom—an offering he was in fact required to make—and just as surely as Christ required Amulek to forsake his fortune, his family, and his very life (only the last of which he was saved from), so Christ will require us to offer everything we have and everything we are on the altar of his worship.
Those who fail to give all, those who value possessions or titles or honor or glory of the world or even their own parents or siblings or spouses or children above Christ, will lose their exaltation and will instead receive what they are willing to receive. Those who are faithful despite their own weaknesses and imperfection will gain all that the Father hath, and in the end they will find that they lost nothing—unless you consider the abandonment of venality, pridefulness, selfishness, and corruption to be a loss.
Don't think you will escape the test of sacrifice. You will not. Embrace it. Thank God for it. Then live it.

You claimed to have been a 30+ year member and yet seem to have a very tenuous grasp of some pretty basic doctrines. Maybe someone else will explain this to you in detail...but it wearies me and I think I'm done. Best of luck.

I'm not touchy. If you're going to site examples to make a point research them first or know what you're talking about.
It was war time. They First Presidency couldn't review the matter at the time. It's a non issue and a non point. And anyhow, amen to the priesthood of any man who exercises unrighteous dominion in that way. If some Stake President excommunicates me unjustly I'll just keep attending, keep serving, etc., etc. I'll be in just fine standing before God. If I abandon the church and my covenants....not so much.
Can you clarify something for me. Why on earth would the bishop need to call the cops on your wife?
You keep claiming that the bishop had to continually threaten your wife....why was your wife continually engaged in doing what she was asked not to do? I certainly understand not wanting to send my kid to a class where they might be teaching false doctrine...but I wouldn't insist (illegally) that I had a right to be where I was asked by those in authority not to be. I would just not have my daughter attend that class. Frankly, I'd have her come to the adult class with me. And if they asked her to not do that, I'd have her not attend the second hour at all before I'd force it the point of threats to call the police and the like.
Seems like things escalated in ways they didn't need to.
If I don't like what the leaders are doing, I'd quietly withdraw in protest and talk to the bishop on the side. I have no right to forcibly go where I've been asked to no go.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding.

You don't know me. So we'll just let that one slide, as everyone else on the forum has a bit of a chuckle.
 

It is worth it.
I trust in God that much. I trust accountability will be just.
How can one believe otherwise in today's world?
Either God is just or He is not.
The plain fact is that the garbage is unavoidable. And it's going to get worse. And worse. And worse.
It legitimately and truly frightens me, in particular for my children.
I'm going to run from it too...as much as possible, and as much as it doesn't mean betraying the covenants I made, which matter more to me than anything else.

If you were the tare you'd be growing within the wheat trying to strangle it.
I'm pretty sure the point was that there are people teaching homosex as not wrong within the membership who are the tares.
You only get to be a tare if you join with the saints again and try to corrupt from within.

That is not the whole story. And you should darned well know it. Are you being intentionally disingenuous or are you unaware? The First Presidency, just as I JUST FINISHED SAYING reversed it upon review. Which is exactly what would happen for anyone excommunicated in like-wise manner.
If you want to be taken seriously get real.

Good point, and you're right there.  Though the new bishop (2) would be talking to the excommunicating bishop (1) and if (1) is spouting lies about the member, it might be harder than it seems.  Maybe it's sixes in this scenario.

I wrote up a large reply, but the more I consider the more I'm just not sure replying is going to be of much use. You don't seem to understand the import of covenants. Short of encouraging you to research and understand better... I'm just not sure what I can say. And saying more is probably only likely to offend further.
But as a starting point here's a link, as a reminder, that explains what covenants are made in the endowment, for example.
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/temples/what-is-temple-endowment?lang=eng
Moreover, you're clearly struggling with faith and testimony. 
The church is true or it isn't. What people do in a ward or stake doesn't change that. You need to know that core thing. I encourage you to find out through study, prayer, and faith.
Beyond that, best wishes in your endeavors.

I can see what you're saying. But I'm not sure I agree. It's putting the technical need for time, interviews and re-baptism as the "difficult" part of coming back. I'd say excommunicated but faithful and active would be much easier to come back from in the ways that matter.
That being said...I don't really believe excommunication was on the table here. It's a bit of an exaggerated point.