Mormon Women Stand for something

[Katy Lied]

This is what you do to so many of your women--metaphysically lobotomize them.

[SandYFan]

Over Christmas, my FIL sat his posterity down and declared a heartfelt, very strong testimony of the prophet Joseph Smith.

He then told us how Satan is using genealogy efforts to insert lies about how Joseph fathered children with women other than Emma and how there's no way he would have ever married another woman while currently married.

And not once, during the entire 45-minute sermon, did he mention Jesus. It was a fun time.

[wuapinmon]

Over Christmas, my FIL sat his posterity down and declared a heartfelt, very strong testimony of the prophet Joseph Smith.

He then told us how Satan is using genealogy efforts to insert lies about how Joseph fathered children with women other than Emma and how there's no way he would have ever married another woman while currently married.

And not once, during the entire 45-minute sermon, did he mention Jesus. It was a fun time.

What does he think "Millions shall know Brother Joseph again" means?

[Pelado]

On the day of his assassination, Willard Richards (I believe) and he drank a bottle of red wine. It's in volume Six of the History of the Church.

He shared the bottle with Willard Richards, John Taylor, and the jailor:

Before the jailor came in, his boy brought in some water, and said the guard wanted some wine. Joseph gave Dr. Richards two dollars to give the guard; but the guard said one was enough, and would take no more.

The guard immediately sent for a bottle of wine, pipes, and two small papers of tobacco; and one of the guards brought them into the jail soon after the jailor went out. Dr. Richards uncorked the bottle, and presented a glass to Joseph, who tasted, as also Brother Taylor and the doctor, and the bottle was then given to the guard, who turned to go out.

- History of the Church, Volume 6, Chapter XXXIV

Also, this:

IIRC, it was the night before that they drank wine. Also, he wasn't wearing his garments (neither was Hyrum) because it was so hot. None of that changes the ridiculousness of the article.

[MartyFunkhouser]

Mormon Women Stand against birth control.

http://www.mormonwomenstand.com/choi...uences-part-i/

While Mormon Women Stand against birth control, apparently they don't stand against misrepresenting a study about the affects of birth control on breast cancer.

From Mormon Women Stand

Oral contraception was classified, in 2005 by the International Agency on Research of Cancer, a branch of the World Health Organization, as a group-one carcinogen along with asbestos and radium. They increase the risk of breast cancer by about 30%. There is also a slightly increased risk of liver and cervical cancers with a decreased risk of ovarian and endometrial cancers. Some pills have more risk than others.

From the page they link to support this claim

A 1996 analysis of epidemiologic data from more than 50 studies worldwide by the Collaborative Group on Hormonal Factors in Breast Cancer found that women who were current or recent users of birth control pills had a slightly higher risk of developing breast cancer than women who had never used the pill (2). The risk was highest for women who started using oral contraceptives as teenagers. However, 10 or more years after women stopped using oral contraceptives, their risk of developing breast cancer had returned to the same level as if they had never used birth control pills, regardless of family history of breast cancer, reproductive history, geographic area of residence, ethnic background, differences in study design, dose and type of hormone(s) used, or duration of use. In addition, breast cancers diagnosed in women who had stopped using oral contraceptives for 10 or more years were less advanced than breast cancers diagnosed in women who had never used oral contraceptives.

A recent analysis of data from the Nurses’ Health Study, which has been following more than 116,000 female nurses who were 24 to 43 years old when they enrolled in the study in 1989 (3), found that the participants who used oral contraceptives had a slight increase in breast cancer risk. However, nearly all of the increased risk was seen among women who took a specific type of oral contraceptive, a “triphasic” pill, in which the dose of hormones is changed in three stages over the course of a woman’s monthly cycle.

Because the association with the triphasic formulation was unexpected, more research will be needed to confirm the findings from the Nurses’ Health Study.

I'm waiting on pins and needles for her follow-up post about the evils of being a working mother.

[DrumNFeather]

Mormon Women Stand against birth control.

http://www.mormonwomenstand.com/choi...uences-part-i/

While Mormon Women Stand against birth control, apparently they don't stand against misrepresenting a study about the affects of birth control on breast cancer.

From Mormon Women Stand



From the page they link to support this claim



I'm waiting on pins and needles for her follow-up post about the evils of being a working mother.

I enjoyed the comments...

"Are you kidding me? Are you actually saying since Lehi didn’t use birth control we shouldn’t either?"

[MartyFunkhouser]

I enjoyed the comments...

"Are you kidding me? Are you actually saying since Lehi didn’t use birth control we shouldn’t either?"

I hadn't read the comments yet. The first comment:

This is a delicate subject and I have hesitated about writing my own thoughts and feelings about it. Thank you for bringing it up in a tender and sensitive manner. I married late, at age thirty, and knowing we both wanted a relatively large family we didn’t waste any time using contraceptives at the beginning. We were blessed with five children in ten years. I wish I’d had the faith to have a few more! Over the years as I’ve studied the scriptures I’ve marveled at passages that seem to convey that God controls conception. It’s a question I want to ask when I return home. In the meantime, I wonder if the increasing rates of infertility among LDS couples has less to do with age and more to do with making covenants in the temple to be fruitful and multiply and then using contraceptives for a few years until “ready” to begin a family, only to find that for some unknown reason you can’t get pregnant. Perhaps the Lord is slow to hearken to pleas for children because a couple failed to exercise faith that when the Lord commands he prepares a way to obey that command. It doesn’t take time or money to have children, it takes faith! And the Lord knows our circumstances and weaknesses better than we do, so he’ll not burden us (though I don’t think of children as a burden) with more than we can handle and will make it possible for us to keep our covenants and the commandments. I don’t know all the answers. These are just the thoughts I’ve had over the years as I’ve pondered the miracle of having children.

She should have hesitated more about writing her thoughts about it.

[DrumNFeather]

I hadn't read the comments yet. The first comment:



She should have hesitated more about writing her thoughts about it.

The comments are really a gold mine in a minefield of a blog post.

[MartyFunkhouser]

I disagree whole-heartedly with your reasons for not having children and for what being prepared to have children means. Lehi had children while he was homeless and travelling in the wilderness. Yet those sons he had then were great men and one was a prophet of God who has blessed the whole world.

Are you kidding me? Are you actually saying since Lehi didn’t use birth control we shouldn’t either?

No I am just saying that since God approved of Lehi having children in the wilderness, He will approve of us having children when we are not wealthy.

Yes read the comments on this one.

[Uncle Ted]

From "about the author":

She's the mother of 10 kids and spends most days in yoga pants taking care of her children, cooking, and cleaning while never actually doing yoga.

10 kids?!? She looks like she is about 20! She really is taking this no birth control things seriously.

[Northwestcoug]

If she really wanted to bring the big guns in her discussion, she should have quoted early 20th century leaders saying that people who use birth control will be denied the celestial kingdom. That would have scared them liberal members straight!

[Maximus]

Why are we following a random crazy mormon blog again?

[myboynoah]

It's a quest.

Just throw the damn ring into the lava river already, Funk.

[Sullyute]

She should have hesitated more about writing her thoughts about it.

That got a hearty laugh from me.

[MartyFunkhouser]

From "about the author":



10 kids?!? She looks like she is about 20! She really is taking this no birth control things seriously.

Yoga pants? Where is her sense of modesty. Yoga pants are form fitting!