Willard will just say what ever sounds good

He is nothing if not very very careful with his word choice. He almost always means exactly what he says, but he means it in a way that other people wouldn't take from the way he says it.

Now I don't know the requirements for ordination in the LDS...

and I do know there are many wolves masquerading as sheep
within the confines of many a church body...

BUT what I do know, and live, is that many of us who have
followed a spiritual calling to pastoral leadership,
live simply (so others may simply live),
and live in a way that promotes honesty, liberality,
kindness, compassion and social justice.
No one I know has a car elevator or a dancing horse.
Would Jesus have....?

It's mostly a member of being a good mason, oops I mean mormon, to get promoted to the next degree, oops again I mean different offices in their two priesthoods.

But Christian fundies ain't buyin' it.

Grew up Mormon. They NEVER use that term and still don't...but perhaps tomorrow they will to cover! LOL. THe requirements for Pastor are normally as follows.. Major in the appropriate undergraduate degree. After obtaining a bachelor's, apply to a Masters or Doctorate divinity program. There will be requirements for the degree, such as an internship. After completing all of the requirements for the advanced degree, contact the denomination and state licensing board to complete the steps to becoming a licensed minister Did he do any of that ? NO. He is not qualified to ba a " PASTOR"! So what does that tell you? His calling himself so...was a MISCONCEPTION about himself... and on the MISCONCEPTION question... he lied to get votes. There are no requirement to be a BIshop except to be asked to be so. It is like calling yourself the President of The Girls Scouts of America...when you were asked to be your Brownie Troup leader once or twice in the course of your girl scout experience. It was highly obnoxious and misleading.

I spent 14 years as a Mormon. THe only people that would agree to that switch are now Mormons who desperately want "one of theirs" to win and are going to say he did it becuase it was a more understood term....or Mainline Christians who are voting for him who have never stepped in a Mormon church to know that it was complete and utter nonsense!

He would never qualify on a resume to serve in a pastoral position...so it was a HUGE stretch!

Welcome to DU!