Gordon Monson: LDS lawmakers who swing LDS doctrine like a hammer are hypocrites

Warning: We’re going to dive into an important Latter-day Saint principle here and then discuss how screwed up that principle has become in a world where religion and politics have been blended or are trying to be blended by some to the point of obliterating the principle’s proper application.

What is that principle?

Agency.

Anyone who is or has been a member — I know, such a crass term — or a follower of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints knows that fundamental concept is at the core of the faith’s beliefs. The thinking goes that one of the purposes of existence in the human form on this Earth and away from the immediate presence of God is to freely choose what to believe, what to do, how to behave, how to live. The church teaches its followers to comply with its interpretations of correct divine principles and commandments.

But, according to agency, it is left up to individuals to make their own decisions regarding how to live.

In fact, it is taught that in the preexistence (the faith’s term for a life condition all humans were a part of before being born on Earth), that the spiritual daughters and sons of God — you, me, everyone — were given a choice, a vote, as to whether to follow a plan presented by Satan, in which all in the physical form here would be compelled to follow God’s laws, with Satan getting the glory for it all, or the Almighty’s plan, championed by Jesus, which was for all to be given agency whereby they could choose for themselves what to believe and how to comport themselves, all with the glory going to God.

It is taught that there was a subsequent “war” fought over the plans, with the plan from God and his Son being the winner. Thus it was written, thus it was done.

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Gordon Monson: LDS lawmakers who swing LDS doctrine like a hammer are hypocrites

Gordon Monson: LDS lawmakers who swing LDS doctrine like a hammer are hypocrites

Gordon Monson: LDS lawmakers who swing LDS doctrine like a hammer are hypocrites

Gordon Monson: LDS lawmakers who swing LDS doctrine like a hammer are hypocrites

Gordon Monson: LDS lawmakers who swing LDS doctrine like a hammer are hypocrites