Humor will not be tolerated!! -Portia

Honestly the behavior exhibited by Vorpal in this post should be enough for a permanent ban. I don't know where the mods are, but falsely accusing someone else of sexual assault in such a misleading way is unacceptable.

You thought you were friends??? I don't know about you, but when one of my friends says that I have been condescending to them and hurt their feelings many times the first thing I would do would be to apologize... not to drag up a bunch of sources from "cognitive-behaviorists" and "ra...

Oh man these posts brought up a lot of feelings for me. I also think they are pretty much example A for why I don't want a lot of my family at my wedding. Sigh. Is this a hypothetical future wedding? Or are you getting married? Still hypothetical. But honestly most extended family is off the list w...

Oh man these posts brought up a lot of feelings for me. I also think they are pretty much example A for why I don't want a lot of my family at my wedding.

Well I had braces for 10 years...so there's that :shock: Do you wear glasses by any chance Portia? Over the past few years i developed a skin allergy that mostly manifested in extremely sensitive and puffy skin under my eyes. Wearing my glasses for about 45 minutes once a day was enough to cause the...

One thing that makes me a little nervous is I'm not sure we can trust the question asker to accurately diagnose their sibling as an "alcoholic and drug addict." In other words, there is a LOT of ground between not obeying the Word of Wisdom, and being an addict. I have 2-3 drinks a week, u...

It doesn't seem accurate to me, to blame the rise of secularism on the failure of previous generations. The internet has changed how our world works, and that means that religious organizations have to confront uncomfortable truths about their present, and their past. You can't just sweep these thin...

There were several themes readers consistently brought up about what the board should change, but there was almost always pretty evenly divided disagreement among you as to what the change should be. That's the section I was referring to. It seemed like half of the readers wanted more censorship, a...

http://theboard.byu.edu/questions/85119/ Roughly half of all participants asked for less censorship and more reader interaction, and as a result of that, the board is creating a new forum with where reader and writer comments will continue to be censored.... /sigh. Also, I didn't realize there was s...

Just so you know where I'm coming from, the main reason why I come here is to comment on LGBT issues that come up on the board. For the record, there are other issues that I actually agree with the more conservative commentators on. The recent abortion question is one such example. With that in mind...

Yeah, this answer was all sorts of problematic. You could tell it was written by someone who has zero understanding of the struggles that LGBT individuals often face. 1. Technically speaking, marriage wasn't what the LGBT community went after first. It started with not getting thrown in jail just fo...

I'm sorry, but the Mormon church is not an organization known for loving gay people. Yes, there are lots of members who are outstanding and wonderful exceptions, but 200 people marching in a pride parade, and some throwaway legislation with gaping loopholes aren't enough to wipe away the larger acti...

Actually, according to the handbook of instructions, a church member who has undergone an "elective transexual operation" is permanently banned from receiving a temple recommend. Other than that, the handbook of instructions doesn't really refer to the issue at all. It's interesting to not...

Totally hijacking this thread, but I'm just going to say your analogy was dead on. Except for ubering to Chateau Mormont. No one ubers there. We uber to to the latest brunch or night hot spot (which changes at least once month). Or in my case, I just uber to West Hollywood, so much better

Yayfulness and anyone else, yes you can quote me on this.

Thanks for the love guys. Sadly my days of being a potential board writer are a bit over, but I did manage to sneak in at least one answer to a question, under a misspelled version of my nym.

Haleakalā's answer is the same fear, doubt, and uncertainty that religious organizations have been using for decades to deny gay people the rights they are seeking. This is the exact same misinformation I saw passed around on fliers at church every week during the prop 8 campaign. This type of fear ...

My perspective, being an out 30 year old gay man who still tries to maintain a healthy relationship with my family. The thought of my siblings teaching my nephews and nieces how to love me even though my life is "wrong" is not a fun thought for me. All it makes me want to do is disengage. ...

The church hasn't been silent in either of those places; it is just as active as it is/was in California. The difference here isn't level of activity; the difference is personal and media attention to that level of activity. Katya, most wards in California never had anything read over the pulpit ab...

"A redefinition of that institution, therefore, redefines it for everyone..." I have never understood this statement, especially when you consider that the church has a different definition of marriage from everyone else anyway. Catholic marriages don't force us to change our definition of...

Though I'd be interested in seeing an enumeration of those 1200 rights... According to a report given to the Office of the General Counsel of the U.S. General Accounting Office, there are 1,138 benefits the United States government provides to legally married couples. Reading into that number leads...