Dogging parenthood
The sermons at LDS General Convention are mostly predictable — here's a riveting example:
Herald reporter Joe Pyrah, because the BYU grad is adopting a "fur baby" this week, in the form of "Pony" a miniature Australian shepherd.
Faulkner insists Pony is a nurturing rehearsal before she and her husband produce a human companion for him:
LDS leaders affirm church's devotion to JesusIt's no wonder that the best remembered pronouncements are the off-the-wall ones: piercings and tattoos — BAD! This year, church Elder Dallin Oaks of the church's Quorum of the Twelve Apostles (not "Apostates"), admonished young couples who choose caring for a dog over spawning human children:
Dogs are less trouble, they declared. Dogs don't talk back and we never have to ground them.
Dallin went on to praise LDS baby factory couples as . . .
an unselfish group who are willing to surrender their personal priorities and serve the Lord by bearing and rearing the children our Heavenly Father sends to their care.Alison Faulkner, an LDS member married a year with nothing to show for it reproductively, squirmed a bit hearing Oak's words, says Provo Daily
Herald reporter Joe Pyrah, because the BYU grad is adopting a "fur baby" this week, in the form of "Pony" a miniature Australian shepherd.Faulkner insists Pony is a nurturing rehearsal before she and her husband produce a human companion for him:
Maybe people should be required to have a dog before they have children.
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Seriously, can anything be more pathetic than choosing a dog over a human being?
nope... lets just pop em out, have a full quiver, and then let the government pay for them all.
I dunno. I've met very few dogs I wouldn't choose over some humans I know.
If it is up to the couple's and the Lord when it is right to have children then who is to say anything? I understand that they are supposed to be multiplying and replenishing the earth but does that mean no one should ever have a dog because they could have had a baby instead? I think the apostle means just do not screw up your prioirities by putting temporal things before celestial things. I still want a dog...
What I also said was maybe couples who get married after three months, and then just rush into children, should be required to have a pet first. or for heaven's sake at least a plant.
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Alison Faulkner
Warchol, you suck. You couldn't write your way out of a paper bag.
Worchol, way to go again. Take good comments from good leaders out of context just to fit your twisted disdain for the LDS Church. Maybe you should take the time to go back and read Oaks' comments in their entirety...and then be grateful your parents didn't choose having a dog over having you.
Anon at 2:01,
With riveting writing such as that you should consider a career in writing, I know you will be quite successful.
It's sad that most of you here let a "man" dictate your future, whether that involved having a dog or a child. Heaven forbid not all women pop out a dozen children in order to fulfill their "celestial" duty. It's sad your priorities/lives are that confused.
Right anon 3:57... and how many LDS women do you know who have really 'popped out a dozen children'? Seriously.
And why do you assume we let some 'man' dictate our future for us? I predict that you were referring to our beloved Prophet of the Lord? He is no ordinary man, nor does he dictate the future for ANYONE.
I think you are the confused one...
Has Warchol never heard of a tongue in cheek comment? Talk about making a mountain out of a mole hill.
Mallory said: I predict that you were referring to our beloved Prophet of the Lord? He is no ordinary man, nor does he dictate the future for ANYONE.
Predict? Jebus, stop being so stupid.
If the Lord is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent, that means he can see past the choices we haven't made, and thus, dictating our future.
You fail at logic games. Wanna try again?
Wanna try again?
Maybe...are you any good at giving head, you know blowjobs?
...the point made by Elder Oaks was simply that if you are ready and able to have children, but instead think a pet is just as sufficient, then you need to rethink your priorities. Why do people make such a big deal about things that don't need to be?! Like my mom always says "those who are quick to anger are guilty as charged"...
Glen, Glen, Glen ...
Arguments in Utah are so predictable.
Jack Mormon: All you Mormons do is have kids.
Mormon: We like to have kids.
Jack Mormon: My tax dollars pay for your kids.
Mormon: Children are the future. And you're mean.
Jack Mormon: No, you're mean. Zero population!
Mormon: Stop illegal immigration!
Jack Mormon: Legalize marijuana!
I've got to get out of this state. Move somewhere more sane.
Like California.
... oh, and yes. I intend to have kids. I was thinking 2 or 3, but after reading this blog I'm thinking 7 or 8.
Guahahaha!!!!
What's wrong with cats? Sure their pompous and arrogant, thinking the world revolves around them, but they are much lower maintenance than dogs.
I've only had to ground my cat once, whereas I ground my dog almost every day for chewing up everything in sight. My kids stopped chewing up stuff after they turned 2, but my dog keeps destroying everything in sight -- shoes, toys, sprinkler heads, tools, did I say shoes?
And sure the dog doesn't talk back, but some days it won't shut up, barking and barking as if all of the neighbors haven't called to complain yet. Even my 5 year old asking "why" every 2 seconds isn't that annoying.
Too bad Mrs. Warchol didn't choose a poodle over little Glen.
dog? god? godonit.
There goes THE CHURCH putting humans on the pedestal again, gods like dogs..."[couples]willing to surrender their personal priorities and serve the Lord by bearing and rearing the [dogs] our Heavenly Father sends to their care."
And exactly who is going to take care of all the zero population nut jobs when they grow old? My kids. That's who. So yeah, you pay property taxes for my kids' schools so they can get a good education so they can afford to take care of all of us. If my kids are smart though, they'll enact some kind of euthanasia to get rid of all the old childless dead weight.
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