Talk:Boyd K. Packer

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[edit] NPOV and other deficiencies

This article definitely needs work. I removed the text about anti-gay controversy because it is not important enough to his ministry as to justify a major section of his biography. If there is a way of briefly mentioning it while maintaining a NPOV and allowing others to research the topic further, perhaps that would be appropriate. Various biased statements aside, this article is also missing important information to better understand such this important LDS figure. The article about another apostle David A. Bednar would be a valuable model to follow.

[edit] Summarizing views

I removed "; he is emphatically against feminism, intellectualism, and homosexuality" - this oversimiplifies packer's views - want to preserve this text though because it should be covered when (if) the article is expanded.

[edit] Misleading text re-written

Original Source:

"There are some men who entice young men to join them in these immoral acts. If you are ever approached to participate in anything like that, it is time to vigorously resist.

While I was in a mission on one occasion, a missionary said he had something to confess. I was very worried because he just could not get himself to tell me what he had done.

After patient encouragement he finally blurted out, "I hit my companion."

"Oh, is that all," I said in great relief.

"But I floored him," he said.

After learning a little more, my response was "Well, thanks. Somebody had to do it, and it wouldn't be well for a General Authority to solve the problem that way"

I am not recommending that course to you, but I am not omitting it. You must protect yourself. "

This article was edited because neutrality was clearly in question!

1) The act of "gay-bashing" was not encouraged. The source explicitly states "I am not recommending that course to you". 2) This article is a biography on Boyd K. Packer, not on gay-bashing and not Gorden B. Hinckly's "bewilderment" of homosexual abuse. 3) The talk's target audience was "[those young] men do not have fathers". 4) The indication that the pamphlet was given to those who were most likely to abuse homosexuals is pure conjecture. 5) The paragraph presented succinctly presents the material of the controversial talk given in General Conference.

23:32, 18 August 2006 (UTC)