Four young RCMP officers were shot and killed this week after trying to stake out a marijuana growing operation on a farm north of Edmonton.
Not since law enforcement officials tried to exterminate the Métis people in 1885 has this many offices been killed in the line of duty in Canada.
This is a sad day indeed.
While I am not advocating the criminilisation or the decriminalisation of marijuana, certainly some will point out that had marijuana not been illegal, these four officers would be alive today.
March 04, 2005
March 03, 2005
Mormon Archipelago
The Mormon Archipelago, of which Our Thoughts is a member, has set-up a new website. It has not only feeds from MA members, it has feeds for some of the Bloggernacle's more popular blogs. It also has a search feature so you can search the text of the most recent articles from all of these blogs.
Origin of Priesthood Blessings
It is a common perception that when someone gives a priesthood blessing, every word that comes to him is what is said in the blessing. Every word spoke in straight from the mouth of God.
It does not happen this way with me. When I give a blessing, a thought is put into my mind and I express that thought into words. In essence, it is the idea that is of divine origins, not every word I speak.
Is this similar to the process that others experience?
It does not happen this way with me. When I give a blessing, a thought is put into my mind and I express that thought into words. In essence, it is the idea that is of divine origins, not every word I speak.
Is this similar to the process that others experience?
March 01, 2005
Hate the Sinner, Love the Choice
Mormons with a liberal outlook on life have come to a point where they can hate the sin, but love the choice.
For example, many liberal Mormons do not support homosexual sex, but support gay marriage. Many do not support abortion, but support a woman’s right to choose. Many do not support tobacco consumption, but support the freedom for others to purchase tobacco. The list goes one.
Why do others who are not so liberal not make this distinction? Why do they see support for the choice to perform an action the same as support for the action?
For example, many liberal Mormons do not support homosexual sex, but support gay marriage. Many do not support abortion, but support a woman’s right to choose. Many do not support tobacco consumption, but support the freedom for others to purchase tobacco. The list goes one.
Why do others who are not so liberal not make this distinction? Why do they see support for the choice to perform an action the same as support for the action?
Abortion and the Right to Kill
One of the common arguments of pro-choice proponents is that a women’s choice to have an abortion or not is a right. If this is true, and I am not arguing it is or not, then this right would supersede any right the embryo/foetus would have to life.
How is the right to choice overriding right to life determined?
In parallel, persons have the right to choose to defend themselves and that right could extend to killing someone. In that regard, they are superseding someone’s right to life. Of course, the parallel ends there because certainly abortion is not the same as self defense.
How is the right to choice overriding right to life determined?
In parallel, persons have the right to choose to defend themselves and that right could extend to killing someone. In that regard, they are superseding someone’s right to life. Of course, the parallel ends there because certainly abortion is not the same as self defense.
Five Years and Mormon Cinema
March marks five years since Excel Entertainment released God’s Army in limited theatres in the United States. Certainly in the past five years a lot has happened in the LDS film industry, but are we any better off? Has LDS film become respected?
When we saw Other Side of Heaven in the theatre someone walked out as soon as the Mormon references emerged. Does that same sort of thing happen today? Are people going to see The Work and The Glory who are not Mormon?
Are we producing films simply for consumption, or are there though-provoking, well-written films being produced?
What is going to happen from now until March 2010?
When we saw Other Side of Heaven in the theatre someone walked out as soon as the Mormon references emerged. Does that same sort of thing happen today? Are people going to see The Work and The Glory who are not Mormon?
Are we producing films simply for consumption, or are there though-provoking, well-written films being produced?
What is going to happen from now until March 2010?
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