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I am not saying go looking for a fight. But when the fight comes to you; refuse to bend. I do not have to approach them; but when they approach me, I will not yield.

I completely understand what you are saying and I sympathize with it. However, this is how we got to the point where we are today. Christians who simply forgot the heritage of Christianity (i.e. being mocked, scorned, killed, martyred, thrown out, etc. for refusing to bend the knee).

It is not respectful. It is the simply the easy way out. Everyone knows that if you say anything against the rainbow velvet glove, the rainbow iron fist will pummel you to death. I just had a recent experience; I was told several months ago I'd be getting a new supervisor. I was evaluating this person personally to see what kind of a supervisor they were. Well, in the course of that personal evaluation, I came to find out this person is an LGBTQ+ ally, goes to drag shows, has rainbow sticker on her laptop. I already had several other reasons I was looking, but nothing too egregious; this put it over the top. I found another job, making more money, with less crap. I told my current company why I was leaving and listed this crap as one of the reasons. "Hey guys, I really don't want to go to a work lunch and have my boss talk about how there are multiple genders, or talk about the drag show she attended over the weekend, I'm out". Lots of talks came afterwards trying to convince me to stay . . .nope. You guys choose a supervisor that is some left-wing woke person AND broadcasts it (I wouldn't care if she didn't broadcast it); I'm out.

This is why the Left, the LBTQ+, etc. win the war. They convinced a whole bunch of people that it was better to be "nice and kind" than to stand up for truth and not give into delusional thinking. "even if I feel they are wrong choices". You are saying it is better to be quite and never tell someone they are wrong then to speak up, tell them they are crazy and then take the hit for saying they are wrong. I am NOT suggesting go looking for a fight, what I am saying is that if the fight comes to you, standing up and being counted is much better than groveling on your knees.

Depends on what they are doing and preaching. If Bob is coming to Church with his mistress and sits in the front row while his wife with his kids are sitting in the back . . .you better believe Bob should be made to feel uncomfortable and out of place. If Bob has committed adultery, but is repentant, knows he has done wrong instead of flaunting it, then yes. The idea that EVERYONE no matter ANY reason should be comfortable at Church and should be welcome has got to go.

The Handbook is also ambiguous enough to allow for a multitude of activities that would not be acceptable years ago. It's a steamroller with no end in sight.

All well and good until everyone goes to Church, or Church activities and each person has been taught different things at home. So Church supported means, support everyone in their own version of truth they teach at home?

Yes it happens. There are multiple missionaries who "come out" on Facebook during their mission, who are openly homosexual, who proclaim they can be romantically involved and they have not broken the Law of Chastity. It's a thing and it's going to get worse . . .a lot worse.