Peggy Stack
just won’t let it alone. She has her teeth in something most people don’t worry
about and feel is being done correctly, but she has to chew on it and ruin it as
a feminist activist. Her latest piece of fake Tribune news tripe: “While applauding latest changes, Mormons
concede they are no cure-all. Some even ask: Why have these ‘worthiness’
interviews?” She admits as much: “Activists heralded the move [of allowing a
second adult in interviews]. . . .” she wrote. But for myself, and I imagine
most of my fellow regular latter-day saints, we don’t want our doctrine and
practice in the church influenced by activists. Why? Because they are actively
pushing their own worldly causes. And I don’t want my worship or doctrinal
views dictated by someone’s mistaken personal cause; especially when they are
adopted from our badly mixed up modern society. The whole concept behind being
a so-called Mormon activist is that you think the church isn’t doing something
it should be, according to your own set of beliefs or opinions.
We now broach an important question
that all who read or agree with Stack’s tripe would do well to consider. Where
do activists get their opinions when they differ from scripture?—we are told
that there are only two other places: from men/women or from the devil: “that
ye may not be seduced by evil spirits, or doctrines of devils, or the
commandments of men; for some are of men, and others of devils” (D&C 46:7).
Hypothetically, even if Peggy’s doctrines were of men, and not the devil, would
we rather get our doctrine from men/her, or from prophets speaking for God?
This is not a hard question!—“I say unto you, that there are many spirits which
are false spirits, which have gone forth in the earth, deceiving the world”
(D&C 50:2). And “if it be not built upon my gospel, and is built upon the
works of men, or upon the works of the devil, verily I say unto you they have
joy in their works for a season, and by and by the end cometh, and they are
hewn down and cast into the fire” (3 Nephi 27:11). These truths should make the
question a little easier to answer.
These activists Peggy quotes in her
fake news pieces may have some joy or success in their false and deceptive
causes, inspired in them by false spirits, but what does the Lord say will be
their end? Again, this is just not that hard to figure out.
From Peggy herself: “However, the
revision is hardly a simple solution to all potential problems, including
leaders who sometimes shame teens, who pose inappropriate sexual questions, who
impose their own views of sin, and, in extreme cases, who are abusive.” Who in
the *#$% is Peggy to decide what an inappropriate question for a bishop to ask
is? As we have seen, with these babblings, she is speaking for either the false
spirits of men or for the devil. More Peggy: “Perhaps the biggest question of
all is this: Are ‘worthiness’ interviews worth doing? Couldn’t such
conversations be more general about a person’s faith and reserve any
disclosures of sin for voluntary confessionals?” Who is she to question or call
for alteration of the Lord’s commandments? “By this ye may know if a man [or
woman] repenteth of his sins—behold, he will confess them and forsake them”
(D&C 58:43). Many youth and adults won’t voluntarily confess; often they
must be questioned and coaxed into unburdening their souls of their serious transgressions.
Peggy is denying D&C 107:72: “And also to be a judge in Israel, to do the
business of the church, to sit in judgment upon transgressors upon testimony as
it shall be laid before him. . . .”
I ask again, do we want Stack and
her activist friends, many of whom are dissidents, to define LDS doctrine and
dictate policy? From the referenced scriptures, what spirit is motivating her
questions and criticisms? The next part of her fake news story is to bring up
an ex-bishop apostate who became an anti-Mormon activist; who let go of the
iron rod of scripture and began to follow the spirit of the devil. Do we want him
and his fellows, as they follow the false spirits of men and the devil, to tell
us or the prophets how to administer the church? What our doctrine should be?
How scriptures should be interpreted?
Another activist is quoted,
questioning church procedure: “Some Latter-day Saints wonder about the need for
such questioning, especially of young Mormons. ‘Why must there be worthiness
interviews?’ asks Amy Albers Hillis of Orlando, Fla. ‘Why not just ‘hey, how
are you?’ conversations?’” Well Peggy and Amy, because the Lord requires it;
don’t you read or believe your scriptures? Evidently not. Such is why we define
them as dissidents or dissenters. They disregard the scriptural practices of
the church and follow the false ways of the world, seeking to infiltrate the
church with the doctrines of men and devils.
Stack then quotes from a therapist,
critical of bishop’s worthiness interviews of youth. It goes without saying
that this therapist/activist is a dissenter whose opinion is worse than
worthless. When a therapist pits their views of what is normal and appropriate
in sexual matters against what the scriptures and prophets teach, which ought
we follow? That decision says much about where a person is now and will
determine much about their future. Those indignant folks who join
publicity-stunt protest marches do so under a different spirit than what is
found in a bishop’s interview, where the Spirit of the Lord is present and
helping a person to confess and repent and heal and progress in their
discipleship.
“There is no reason why the Young
Women president couldn’t be the one to talk to young women,” she [a misled
activist] says, or the president of the all-female Relief Society could be the
go-to interviewer for adult women.” This is blatant false doctrine. The
scriptures say the bishop is the common judge in Israel and has the keys and
the mantle to hear confessions of any kind of serious sin, and assist the
person toward forgiveness.
Stack next
quotes some more deeply false doctrine from a blogger: “’Worthiness,’ [Steve] Evans
says, ‘is an enormous misnomer. None of us are worthy. That’s the entire point
of Jesus Christ.’” One thing that is so pernicious about that false notion is that
one must be worthy to enjoy the most precious blessings of the gospel—the
spiritual gifts. When a person needs a miracle, or an answer to prayer, or
spiritual guidance, they are far more likely to receive such if they are living
clean and worthy before their Maker and the Giver of all good gifts. Worthy
people are entitled to the constant companionship of the Holy Ghost, the
greatest blessing one can have in mortality. The most worthy, clean people are
even entitled to see God Himself: “Verily, thus saith the Lord: It shall come
to pass that every soul who forsaketh his sins and cometh unto me, and calleth
on my name, and obeyeth my voice, and keepeth my commandments, shall see my
face and know that I am” (D&C 93:1). Worthiness is the result of following
these outlined progressive steps. Do not put stock in Peggy’s and her activist
friends’ opinions; they are false. “The answer, he [Steve Evans] says, to the
final temple recommend question — ‘Do you consider yourself worthy to enter the
Lord’s house and participate in temple ordinances’ — should ‘always be no. For
all of us.’” This poor fellow is confusing worthiness with perfection; he needs
to reread the general conference talks on the subject, and inform himself of
true doctrine. If it is possible, this is worse than normal Salt Lake Tribune Tripe.
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