Short: The "Work Camp" for the Homeless being set up in Utah for ICE detainees and the homeless proves that the LDS Church's claims of being Christian are false.
Medium: While the LDS Church pretends it doesnt get involved in secular affairs, it can and has and absolutely does. It is true that after getting their nose stung on Proposition 8, the LDS church has been a lot more gunshy about getting involved in politics; but to set up the most unchristian institution in US history right in their own backyard and say nothing about it proves that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is no church that Christ would acknowledge.
Maximum Verbosity: Let's start with some of the basics. The LDS Church calls itself the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. They claim that all other Churches do not have the authority of God and that God withdrew that power and authority after the death of John the Revelator in the first century. They also claim that God sent Peter and two other apostles to lay their hands on the head of Joseph Smith to restore the keys of the Melchekizek authority. The LDS church does a really good job of obfuscating its extremely convoluted and Extra beliefs in a way that makes meaningful discussion about them difficult.
But some things are not difficult. Some things are simply flat out fucking wrong. Christ said pretty clearly, that this kind of thing doesn't fly with him. And saying that your faith in the Book of Mormon and the LDS prophet is great for you if you want to claim and bear your testimony about your experiences; but anyone with an ounce of common sense can see that this is ABSOLUTE BULLSHIT.
Matthew 25 lays out the basic expectations Christ has for his fellow man.
Luke 4 explicitely states that the poor are to be treated like human beings
1 John 4:18 makes quite clear that punishing the poor for being poor is Satanic
Even by their own LLM generated scripture, the LDS church is disobeying pretty clear guidelines
Mosiah 4:26, D&C 64:35, Alma 34:28-29
But let's just try common sense. Does the man who said "Blessed are the Meek" think that his church making a work compound to house the homeless and indigent and make them work for corporations make sense? Does the man who wrote "Let he who is among you who is without sin cast the first stone" gonna approve of ICE? Teh fact of the matter is, that these right wing parties are able to get so wrapped up in propoganda and other nonsense that they can justify ANYTHING.
But I want you to realize that Oaks, the current head of the LDS church is among the richest and most powerful men IN THE WORLD thanks to the Corporation of the President of the LDS Church; and Mormons also believe that he is a Prophet, Seer and Revelator with ALL the same keys and powers as Moses or Joseph Smith except they arent the leaders of a dispensation; that's it ladies and gentlemen. Mormons believe that this man can part the Salt Lake Sea or unleash the 10 plagues of Egypt and yet this man with a supposed DIRECT LINE TO CHRIST wont even lift a fucking finger to say "Maybe we shouldnt build a concentration camp for the homeless in our back yard."
Here is an article directly talking about it in the church owned periodical.
"It's not about holding them against their will but getting them the help they need" mmmmmkay there Governor Cox, what exactly do you think people will think given the behavior of Republicans and ICE and the complete inaction regarding Trump by the so called LDS church?
Meanwhile, here is a Pro Publica article about people having to jump through so many hoops in Utah to get welfare, they just join the LDS church.
Gotta play that Bishop Roulette to find an actually Christian bishop when so many of them are so busy trying to be Mormon they have no time for Christ.
Between your calling, family home evening, church activities, three hours of church, scripture activity, going to the temple, welfare assginments etc how the hell does anyone have time to do good except of course on narrowly constructed once or twice a year Stake level "service projects" that most actually resent having to do?
3 Nephi 23:9-13 talks about how even prophets can fuck up, so LDS culture does allow that the so called Prophet can sit there and ignore this fat Black Widow Spider governor Cox is building in "Zion" but the fact of the matter is that at some point if you aren't a Mormon you have to look beyond the nice young men in white shirts and ties and look at who the fuck it is that Mormon political leaders hang around with and frankly? There is absolutely nothing Christian about this work camp.
NOTHING.
