Is it worshiping Pres. Monson? I don’t see how the site encourages anyone to worship him – if someone worships Pres. Monson, that’s their own issue. There’s plenty of stuff on the Church’s own site about Pres. Monson (http://www.thomassmonson.org/ ), which site people could similarly misconstrue as worshiping him. Is it wrong to become a “fan” of Pres. Monson or the Church or the Book of Mormon on Facebook? Is it wrong to care about the president of the church and what he does and says? He is Christ’s representative here on earth, yes even when eating at Dee’s (now what he might say in that situation is not necessarily doctrine but he is the Lord’s prophet regardless of situation). The site is Followtheprophet.net, not followthomasmonson.net.

I think Bryce and Brad created a beautiful site allowing people to get to know the prophet and his teachings better. We do not live in the past, we live in a world of social media and instant news. Our web-based PR approach (if I may call it that) needs to change with the times. Look at how open Pres. Hinckley was with the press. Besides, as Bryce pointed out, most of what is posted is readily available in the Church News or other public sources.

There are a billion other sites that do that. If this was the only lds website on the web, there would be a problem. I live in an area where there are tons of Latter-day Saints and have rarely-to-never seen “leader worship” among the people. I don’t know what ‘large subset of Latter-day Saints’ you are talking about. Do they have a site where they profess their doctrines of ‘leader worship’. Are you making an assumption or basing your opinion on the members in your area?

I don’t know how you can just throw a large subset of the church under the bus without any proof of that claim. I’ve lived in several parts of the country and in virtually every ward I lived in, the proper relationship between a prophet, the people and the Lord was taught. Every ward teaches Gospel Principles and the same doctrine.

Anyone with open eyes who visits lds.org or visits General Conference can see the appropriate and true direction we are led. This is just one other site in a sea of millions. If you are interested in what President Monson is up to, where he’s visiting and what he’s saying, then this is a great little site for that.

If a large subset of the church bookmarks this site and never visits any other site and stops reading their scriptures and praying so they can let their whole worlds revolve around the prophet’s activities, then they are numbskulls. Obviously that’s not a realistic scenario, which is why I don’t see the problem with this site.

I read lds.org, several other sites and I pray to my Father in Heaven and get answers for my personal life. If I get a second or two between jobs to head on over to FollowTheProphet.net and see what Pres. Monson is up to, I don’t think I’m going to burn in hell. What’s wrong with seeing what Ol Monson is up to when I follow all my friends on facebook, twitter, and other people in my industry? Why can’t I be interested in what the brethren are up to? I follow my friends, but I don’t worship them.

So everyone chill and don’t get all up-in-arms, if someone can’t put up a little site that gives us more info into what our leader is doing, then I guess the church shouldn’t do any news stories about him between conference sessions, they should take out all the stories about him in the LDS.org newsroom and no one should speak another word about him. I suppose we should have the primary kids stop singing “Follow the Prophet” and tear the hymn “We thank thee O God for a Prophet” out of the hymnal.

It’s not adulation, it’s information. Know the difference.

But it does work … I can’t imagine President Monson being comfortable with this.