Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the News

[Topper]

First, you explain the virtue of not knowing it. 30K followers and LDS folks reference her frequently (99% of the time to condemn) in all forms of social media.

You sound like my wife. I am often explaining words and phrases to her. Things like "MILF", "camel toe", etc. that have ... uh ... dubious meanings. Instead of thanking me, she always says, "And why on earth do you know THAT word?"

And a curious mind is not a sufficient answer?

[Pelado]

How or why do you all know who these people are? I've never heard of a purpose wife before. Without CUF/CS I'd likely have never heard of Dehlin or Kelly or the guy named after a city. If you know these people and don't have the entire BYU roster memorized I think your priorities are way out of whack.

I am with you. This is the only place I even find out about these people. Ignorance my not always be a virtue, but it can be blissful.

Like HFN and creekster, I doubt I would have heard of any of these characters if not for my participation here.

[HuskyFreeNorthwest]

First, you explain the virtue of not knowing it. 30K followers and LDS folks reference her frequently (99% of the time to condemn) in all forms of social media.

You sound like my wife. I am often explaining words and phrases to her. Things like "MILF", "camel toe", etc. that have ... uh ... dubious meanings. Instead of thanking me, she always says, "And why on earth do you know THAT word?"

I'll take being compared to your wife as a compliment. Chance the Rapper has more than 40k followers and is referenced by members of your congregation more or at least as much as some crazy Mormon lady. So I must assume you are atune with his most recent posts as well?

[LVAllen]

First, you explain the virtue of not knowing it. 30K followers and LDS folks reference her frequently (99% of the time to condemn) in all forms of social media.

You sound like my wife. I am often explaining words and phrases to her. Things like "MILF", "camel toe", etc. that have ... uh ... dubious meanings. Instead of thanking me, she always says, "And why on earth do you know THAT word?"

I'm on social media quite a bit, and this is the first time I've ever heard of A White with a Purpose, too.

[Jeff Lebowski]

I'll take being compared to your wife as a compliment. Chance the Rapper has more than 40k followers and is referenced by members of your congregation more or at least as much as some crazy Mormon lady. So I must assume you are atune with his most recent posts as well?

Yes, of course!

[Jeff Lebowski]

I'm on social media quite a bit, and this is the first time I've ever heard of A White with a Purpose, too.

More virtue signaling.

[LVAllen]

More virtue signaling.

I'll freely admit to knowing what MILF means, having learned it from a mission companion.

[MartyFunkhouser]

Funny how everyone is against church disciplinary courts. Until it involves someone they don't like.

I'm assuming you are referring to me. I don't understand them even if involve some white supremacist woman. I think the whole concept is stupid.

[Donuthole]

I'll freely admit to knowing what MILF means, having learned it from a mission companion.

One of my mission companions admitted to me he had a crush on his brother's wife. I didn't tell him, but I distinctly remember thinking that would have made her a SILILF.

[Topper]

I'm assuming you are referring to me. I don't understand them even if involve some white supremacist woman. I think the whole concept is stupid.

People are against them until they don't like somebody, then they want the Holy Hell to be unleashed upon that person.

[frank ryan]

Funny how everyone is against church disciplinary courts. Until it involves someone they don't like.

Not gonna lie, but this is true.

[CJF]

I'll take being compared to your wife as a compliment. Chance the Rapper has more than 40k followers and is referenced by members of your congregation more or at least as much as some crazy Mormon lady. So I must assume you are atune with his most recent posts as well?

The only reason I know of the crazy wife person is because she got into it on twitter with the BYU/Mormon rapper over his inappropriate lyrics and persona. Someone posted the link and I went to see the train wreck.

[Jeff Lebowski]

Jana Riess with a blog post on the Wife With a Purpose issue:

http://religionnews.com/2017/08/15/l...ch-right-back/

Jana getting salty!

I’m glad to see the LDS Church come out swinging on this issue. If we’ve learned anything in the last week, it’s that folks who say they just want to “celebrate” white culture do so at the expense of every other race under the sun; their claims that they just want to quietly honor their own people without doing damage to anyone else are a bunch of horseshit. Excuse my Mormon French.

[Green Monstah]

Funny how everyone is against church disciplinary courts. Until it involves someone they don't like.

Yeah, that's the part of this I don't like about this (although I'm probably the only one on here who replied to her pity party today).

[frank ryan]

I loved how the church statement put white culture in quotes, because it is kind of a made up thing.