Nirvana said it best: Come as you are.
We wish to extend a warm welcome to anyone and everyone, regardless of what you think, what you do, and how you look.
If you want to be part of the church family, yet you don't literally believe there was a flood and Noah put every animal on a boat...that's cool! And if you DO believe it, great! Who cares? What good is a family if there isn't a little dinner table drama every once in a while? Are you skeptical about Mormon doctrine? Church history? Come on in! But be respectful, and remember we're all just trying to find our own path to God, or at a minimum, a path to goodness.
Come as you are!
Come with your tattoos, mohawks, piercings, suits and ties, long-sleeves, heavy metal, root beer, green jell-o, jokes, beards, homeopathy, scriptures, subversive bonnets, anger, laziness, love, respect, mistakes, hopes, dreams, disbelief, quirks, home-schooled kids, zeal, crying babies, sunburns, tobacco-stained fingers, and everything else that makes you YOU.
Just come. We are lucky to have you at all!
Sometimes we get a little excited over whether someone is wearing a white shirt, or whether a sister is wearing slacks. We declare that these things are not important. Not even close!
What IS important? Lifting, supporting, encouraging, welcoming, loving, helping, embracing.
Left-wing, Right-wing, or Ron Paul fanboy, it's all good!
You are all welcome.
Sincerely,
FFP
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