Cut and pasted from a thread on Mormon Apologetics.org:
Mormon Apologetics & Discussion Board > Welcome & Come On In! > LDS Dialogue & Discussion  Jun 6 2009, 06:38 PM Post #1 | |
| Seasoned Member: Separates Light & Dark  Group: Members Posts: 562 Joined: 12-February 05 Member No.: 1403  | One thing I've appreciated about growing older is my imagination is no longer held captive all day by a beautiful woman who smiles & says hello. Much easier to get back to work, be productive, without having "flash backs" of what might potentially be. The old diminishing sex drive has its benefits! LOL More seriously, is chemical castration an option for LDS gays? I mean, if you're faithful LDS & accept that for whatever reason the Lord has put you on Earth as a "eunuch" (best case, if you can stay strong), why should you have to struggle with incessant thoughts that are not just inappropriate now, but will be inappropriate in the next life, too, only serve to pervert any desires to have children in a celestial relationship in the next life. There is zero point to having homosexual thoughts, it's not as though they're a normal part of the procreation process - they're just an annoying, perverted form of biology, entirely worthless. Does the handbook have information on this? |
 Jun 7 2009, 12:13 AM Post #19 | |
 Newbie: Without form, and void Group: Members Posts: 70 Joined: 6-May 09 From: Las Vegas, NV Member No.: 15464 | QUOTE(annewandering @ Jun 6 2009, 09:11 PM)  How about solving all our problems with a few drugs? I am wondering if we were to voluntarily do this would it mean we would have to learn control after we die or would taking the drugs voluntarily be counted as controlling our physical body? Something like this is really getting into pretty dangerous territory, both spiritually and physically. Willingly subverting freewill just seems wrong on the surface but we take medicine for depression and other psychological conditions fairly freely. If we decide the one is bad does it condemn the rest? I am a psychiatric social worker. I have considered this dilema for years, but don't think much of it these days. "What is, is; what ain't ain't." Persons with sever mental illness do take medications, necessarily so! They take them with informed consent, voluntarily, and with increasingly greater success. If there are medications, which there are, that can help an alcoholic check his/her drinking should we suggest that the alcoholic not take the medications based upon the idea that it robs him of moral agency? What about the diabetic? I have seen diabetics, craving sugar, eat themselves into various stages of neuropathy. Medication can help stave off those cravings. Can we possibly suggest that because it would rob them of moral agency a diabetic should not take medications? In my view it would be immoral for those responsible not to do everything possible to get the person so sticken to take the medications that will provide the help they desperately need. If there is a chemical solution to help a chronic adulterer or a gay man acheive sexual sobriety, and worthy entrance to the temple, I AM ALL FOR IT. I don't remember questions on the temple recommend interview asking the kind of medications I take or why I have to take them. Do you? |
| Jun 7 2009, 12:51 AM Post #21 | |
 Death, Destroyer of Worlds Group: Members Posts: 4628 Joined: 26-November 03 Member No.: 19 | I think this thread is akin to the thread from a while back asking if we should kill babies to help them reach Celestial glory. Stupid and inflammatory. If NCMO had succeeded this thread would have been closed and all participants chemically castrated. |
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