Dravin

I'm disinclined to call the actions of the 1st Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve paranoia. I can see the argument but I'm inclined to give them the benefit of the doubt.

Concerning baptism being done by immersion:
 
 
 
Link: https://www.lds.org/handbook/handbook-2-administering-the-church/priesthood-ordinances-and-blessings?lang=eng#20.3.8
 
 
Link: https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/20.73-74?lang=eng#
 
If someone has heard something from a General Authority or some Church manual about the acceptability of baptism not by immersion I'd appreciate a pointer to it.

It sounds like, then, that what you are terming political correct ideology/thinking is what I'm terming the impulse for the politically correct speech. In that case, I think yes, taken to extremes politically correct thinking and ideology can be detrimental to blunt/frank speech.

My comments were directed at The Folk Prophet.

Perhaps I should have replaced "bland" with "measured".  :)
 
 
(tangent):  It's a matter of perspective, I suppose.  From where I'm sitting, the status quo in the Church can only be described as "unequal" if ecclesiastical authority is something that is being openly sought--in that case, yes; a female's definitely up against a "glass ceiling" there.  But the notion that ecclesiastical authority can or should be aspired to, is anathema to mainstream Mormonism.  And of course, statistically speaking, the odds are against an individual male's ever becoming a bishop; and the odds of his "advancing" to become a Stake President, Seventy, or Apostle are almost laughably infinitesimal.  Tell me that I'll never be a bishop, and my response will be "Meh.  Probably wouldn't have happened anyways; and at any rate--didn't want it."
 
No one would argue that a woman's abject inability to get testicular cancer makes her "unequal" to men.  But replace "testicular cancer" with "a 1/100 chance at being drafted into a ridiculously time-consuming Mormon Church job that nobody wants anyways", and suddenly all Hades breaks loose.

Dravin has a point.  As long as we're calling a spade a spade here, let me suggest that political correctness does not limit blunt speech; it limits blunt speech about particular topics.  Another issue is that certain terms, in our modern society, are now poison.  For example, I would disagree with Folk Prophet about the idea that men and women are not equal in the Church.  I would, in a less-careful moment, describe their spheres with the phrase "separate but equal".
 
But of course, we're taught from grade school onwards what that is code for, so in the context of a discussion on LDS gender roles no one will touch that idea with a twenty-foot pole.
 
All of which, perhaps, hints at a deeper problem.  There is now a critical mass of Mormons who are willing to make their fellow Mormons--and even the GAs, in point of fact--"offenders for a word", as Isaiah put it.  Mormons who insist on getting adversarially legalistic when interpreting each other's words, will be rewarded with General Authorities who increasingly speak with a degree of blandness that is generally used only by lawyers.

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Age is a fun one. Not allowed to be baptized until you are 8? Not allowed to be in nursery until you are 18 months? Not allowed to go on a full time mission because you aren\'t old enough? Age based discrimination baby!

Other than my own, 0 for the record, I can\'t see anyone\'s warning points.

While the font could be better, for me it\\\'s the contrast of just black on white. I much prefer a light grey or tan as a background. All the white while surfing the board and reading threads is a little too much for my preference. I\'ve had to resort to killing the brightness on my monitor if I\'m going to spend much time on the site.

Looks pretty cool to me. But, I just got back in...been trying for a day or two.
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Other than my own, 0 for the record, I can\'t see anyone\'s warning points.

While the font could be better, for me it\\\'s the contrast of just black on white. I much prefer a light grey or tan as a background. All the white while surfing the board and reading threads is a little too much for my preference. I\'ve had to resort to killing the brightness on my monitor if I\'m going to spend much time on the site.

Too much garbage (colors, boxes,etc) on the forum pages, too much white space on each post, both distract from the purpose of the forum.
I see a change theme button but it does not appear to do anything.