treating "mixed seed" as a racial taboo are, thankfully, in the official dustbin. Socially, here in Utah, you still get looks if you're interracial. And I've come close to clocking a fellow LDS member who once made his distaste known at the door. It remains to be seen if the LDS church stance on homosexuality and gay marriage will ever "modernize" in the way the LDS church stance on race was "modernized" during the last 50 years. I tend to think that sexuality and race are separate issues and that the church will resists on homosexuality and gay marriage, because these things don't just contradict Bible or Book of Mormon scripture, they contradict modern dictums from the leadership, like the 1994 Proclamation To The World. Do I personally think homosexuals are wrong, or that they're committing a Great Evil in what they do? I try not to worry about it, because I've got enough to worry about in my own life, with my own problems, that I don't necessarily feel inclined nor qualified to go around pulling a Fred Phelps. The only reason I get my dander up on these issues in public at all, is because I resent the idea that just because you are philosophically or religiously inclined to see homosexual activity as a sin, that somehow you become a moral cretin. As I noted in a much older thread, I view a range of different human activities as sinful, but I live and work with and even