So, we have an authoritative statement by "the prophet to the Prophet", Heber C Kimball stating that SLC would be classed among the wicked cities of the world. That around 150 years ago. And today? Yes, I think so. Parts of the west side are gang-riddled. The Avenues are gay-riddled with copious amounts of rainbow flags waving in the wind every June (since when do we boast of our sin and defiance of the first commandment to multiply and replenish the earth - which cannot be done with butt sex and other gay practices not involving sperm and an egg?!?). We have wife-swapping and soft-swinging as a regular occurrence in the south end of the valley.
And, as I try to warn my friends and family in the valley of the impending judgments, all I get is a glassed-over stare in response. In other words, the people believe they are chosen and will therefore be saved, no matter the level of depravity that they engage in.
And then there is Utah County with BYU going woke and you really cannot tell a Saint from a sinner around here. At the heart of BYU housing south of campus, I find that there are now doggie poop bags everywhere as if it is now normal to have a pet while going to school. And sure enough, I saw a greasy-haired Millennial couple walking a dog (and of course, not being responsible for the poop their dog was extruding in the planting strip). I wondered if these could be some of the "plants" active up on campus, trying to change the culture and influence students away from traditional values. I do not remember having time for a frivolous thing like a designer dog during my time at BYU - let alone the budget for grooming and feeding, etc
I attended my neice's sealing in the Payson temple last Saturday. She is a real gem - one I am proud to call family. She is so goal oriented that she makes me feel like a complete slacker etc for what I was up to at that same age. I got to the reception a little late in Spanish Fork and found the groomsmen out doing what they do - decorating the Groom's little pick-up truck. All I saw going into the venue, was the fellows in white shirts and ties putting on the ribbons etc that you would expect. Several of them I recognized from the sealing room in the Temple.
About an hour later, I emerged from the building to find the truck parked in a corner and something in the street lights caught my eye. I thought someone had used candle wax to make a phallic symbol complete with testes on the side of the bed of the truck. Mind you, this was about 4' long. There was a bunch of other stuff hidden in code all over the truck - but the thing that was REALLY egregious was a depiction of what appears to be my neice giving fellatio to a male on the passenger door of the same truck. The door she would be using to leave for her honeymoon on. How distressing!! Either that her groom hung out with these buffoons or that she had to go to a carwash to attempt to clean this filth off when she should have been leaving for wedded bliss on her most memorable night of her clean/pure life. She is not about that kind of garbage.
I was completely in shock. When I told some people who saw it, they just laughed it off. The problem is, this kind of low-brow humor has been normalized in our schools and among today's youth. I call it de-sensification.
The first thing that went through my mind after the shock dissipated a bit, was that Koyle's prophecy of being able to move from Payson to Lehi without touching the ground and stepping only on the corpses of the dead after some future desolating scourge, were about to come true (in other words, the boys from Spanish Fork are just bad news). And then I remembered back to my BYU days and me driving my then fiance's Subaru with 8 BYU students inside and two on the roof through a treacherous stretch of Diamond Fork and some drunk cowboys coming up behind us in their redneck get-up cutting us off and threatening us with bodily harm as we were leaving the hotspring parking lot because they were too drunk to make any sense of the situation. And I remember just being glad that I did not have to live in Utah county after college was done. That was 35 years ago.
Then there was the statement by a daughter that the kids at Cardston High were like over 70% non-virgins. I asked if that was the kids from the Reserve or predominantly LDS kids and it was the latter including the Seminary teacher's daughter who "fell pregnant" by another Bishop's son (isolated case?, or common??). Not very Latter-Day saintish if you ask me. Bottom line is, our culture is in extreme trouble - and we should not be surprised if judgments come down on us.
Then there was a convo I had with SEVERAL of the women who are divorced who were complaining about the men on LDS dating sites and how they expect to have sex with you on the first date - or you are otherwise a prude. Or the reports out of Utah that there is such a thing as "soaking" where it is not sex if the guy puts his unit into a girl's unit but does not thrust in and out. And so we go down that slippery slope....
And we have people wondering after us in amazement when we talk of the long-overdue destruction that we have coming to us....
