Into the West

I have a confession to make. I still read The 100 Hour Board. Weird, I know, but I am fascinated by the current views and opinions of BYU students. I think it's a good way to get a feel for how my siblings feel about me, as well as trying to get a feeling for how the religion and its younger participants are evolving. If you have ever read the board, you are familiar with the large amount of relationship questions that they answer. One trend I have noticed recently is that students have written in about an amazing relationship they had, where they really loved each other and were talking about getting engaged. Everything is perfect and wonderful until one person in the relationship prays to know if they should marry this person, and they "receive" an answer that is completely contradictory to all of the thoughts and feelings of both parties in a relationship. Both parties inevitably break up, after which months of heart-ache, depression, and anxiety ensue.

This makes absolutely no sense to me. It's almost like the people who supported proposition 8 because "the prophet said so" even though their conscious was telling them something completely different, and they literally felt sick to their stomach about their actions. It boggles my mind that sometimes people let religion and "revelation" blind them to otherwise correct decisions , as well as their own ability to correctly choose right from wrong. If I ever mange to make a commitment as big as marriage with someone you can be sure that it will because I want to spend the rest of eternity with them, and not because God has told me that this is what I am supposed to do.