“But you’re so intelligent …”

Over the last few months, this one unfinished statement has rung in my mind. It is based on a very brief conversation I had with a dear friend regarding the issue of gay marriage. I don’t support the practice of it, whereas my friend does.

Christiane and I had a very interesting conversation the other day regarding a couple of cultural practices commonly engaged in by young children in the LDS Church (encouraged by the adults, of course) — bearing their testimonies in Sacrament meeting, and partaking of the Sacrament before they are baptized.

After Sacrament meeting last Sunday (in which I spoke on the Lord’s Supper), a prominent member of the ward whom I will not name pulled me aside and in a very nice way informed me that, although he enjoyed my talk generally, he took exception with one thing I had said.

I gave a talk last Sunday in Sacrament meeting. The assigned topic was the Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper: How Christ Instituted It and Why. The talk took me about five hours to write and twelve minutes to deliver.