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- Senate approves bill banning use of tax dollars to advocate for gun control May 17, 2013 · 49 comments
- KU student killed in crash on U.S. Highway 59 May 17, 2013 · 33 comments
- Trio of Lawrence road projects to begin on Monday May 19, 2013 · 1 comment
- On the street: Would you rather have a lower income tax and higher sales tax, or lower sales tax and higher income tax? May 17, 2013 · 23 comments
- Gas prices approach record highs May 18, 2013 · 13 comments
- Opinion: Benghazi, IRS: Son of Watergate? May 15, 2013 · 102 comments
- Budget provision would block state funding for Common Core standards May 16, 2013 · 74 comments
- KU student arrested after fight sends Lawrence man to trauma center May 17, 2013 · 12 comments
- Affordable Care Act bringing jobs to Lawrence May 16, 2013 · 73 comments
- Bid for recreation center comes in about $10 million lower than expected; questions grow over other cost estimates May 15, 2013 · 84 comments
- KU student killed in crash on U.S. Highway 59 May 17, 2013
- 25 years ago: Linwood High School celebrates final graduation May 18, 2013
- Wheel Genius: Roadwork planned for this week May 18, 2013
- Burgers, bratwurst, gifts and good times: friends tell of homicide victims’ last days May 19, 2013
- McLemore speaks about AAU coach, agent allegations May 17, 2013
- KU MBA students examine no-shows at Bert Nash, other nonprofit problems April 25, 2013
- Editorial: Poor process May 19, 2013
- Gas prices approach record highs May 18, 2013
Mormons and Jews
Here's what I know from research on LDS baptism for the dead, which is what the original post is referring to...there is no "gain" for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints except an expression of their faith, the doctrine is a combination of the belief that baptism is a covenant with God that gives a person the opportunity to receive all the blessings afforded through Christ, the LDS doctrine says God is no respecter of persons (which means, if a person has not had the opportunity to hear the gospel, he or she can still accept Christ after death--the baptism for the dead was referred to by Paul in Corinthians: 15:29 Else what shall they do which are baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not at all? why are they then baptized for the dead?) and a desire to perform that rite for those who have sufferend and passed away, in case they choose to follow Christ in the afterlife. This practice, that according to LDS doctrine, was restored to the earth when Joseph Smith Jr. received the Melchizedek Priesthood as part of a total restoration of the full gospel of Jesus Christ, which LDS members believe was distorted over the generations since Christ. When the LDS leaders heard from the Jewish leaders, they stopped the practice. That's all this is about. You will find LDS people of all political and philosophical persuasions these days--pro-choice--pro-gay-civil rights. Remember, Democrat Harry Reid is also LDS--not just Republican Mitt Romney. And singer Gladys Knight is also a convert. If you are not a person of faith, then none of this will really matter at all. Hope I answered the question that was posted originally.
February 16, 2012 at 2:46 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Opponents criticize latest abortion bill in Kansas Legislature
Women are chattel to this Governor, and all his cronies. Did you expect anything less??? Those of you who voted for them? Guess you don't trust or even like women either.
February 9, 2012 at 8:58 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Bill would require information on emergency contraception as part of sexual assault examination process
Your comments are offensive. You take away the right of a woman to stop a process that will retraumatize her. If YOUR choice is to carry a child of a rapist (and I hope that you NEVER have to experience that) then that's YOUR choice. But don't take away the choice of other women who may not see it your way. A woman's body must be her own, governed by her alone; otherwise she becomes less than a citizen, a slave. Civil law makes her body NOT your property. As for treatment after rape? The fertilized egg is NOT a human being in my book...so, that's just your opinion, not a statement of fact. Pass the law. Protect women.
February 7, 2012 at 3:56 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Gov. Brownback’s approval rating falls; Kansas GOP disputes poll
You know, if Adkins had anything substantive in the way of stats that would undermine the poll, she would have been waving the information in front of the faces of reporters. Sure bet, the INSIDE information is something in the koolaid.
January 31, 2012 at 3:11 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
New documents show cost of KBA's legal fees
Wonder how many children who just lost their food stamps we could have fed NOT paying lawyers for the KBA?
January 31, 2012 at 12:07 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Kansas official defends food stamp policy as fair
Another war on the poor---and this time, the children of the poor. For crying out loud, its not really the poor that are taking from you...if you want to look for the $$$ that you are missing, look UP not down the economic ladder. One welfare check to the gas and oil industry would feed the whole State of Kansas for years to come.
January 31, 2012 at 10:32 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Kansas Republicans critical of Obama's address
You are definitely drinking the R koolaid...the stats show that any increase in foodstamp requests were very temporary...so I guess you might want to count all the people who got OFF foodstamps, too, but wait, no, the koolaid won't let you.
January 25, 2012 at 10:09 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Kansas Republicans critical of Obama's address
President Obama gave a great speech last night. History will show that he is a GREAT President, who was saddled with failed policies, and in the face of divisiveness, won through. Thank you President Obama and First Lady Obama for your courage, intelligence, and spirit.. you are true examples of the American Dream, and all the best that America can be.
January 25, 2012 at 7:06 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
As part of the state’s commemoration of the Kansas sesquicentennial, Gov. Sam Brownback Tuesday announced the top 12 Notable Kansas Events. Which would you pick as No. 1?
I'd have to say the four big floods; 1844 bluff to bluff, 1903; 1935, and especially 1951. The 1951 flood certainly had the most impact, if only because of the increased population. I know many people cite 1993, but 1951 is the flood that changed so much of how Kansas regulates waterways.
January 24, 2012 at 4:22 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Proposed ban on abortion introduced in Kansas House
Yep...talking about a spirit that lives without the body..in this case in the presence of God BEFORE the spirit enters the body (a process that we still do not fully understand..the when, the how) which means that there is NOTHING in this quote about physical life or death of any part of the egg or zygote. You can quote scripture all you want, but you should probably really get the meaning before you launch an argument.
January 20, 2012 at 8:28 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )