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Torture Architect Called as Bishop
Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2012 3:19 pm
by _Equality
The LDS Church in Spokane, Washington has called Bruce Jesson to be a Mormon Bishop, according to the Seattle Times. Jesson developed the waterboarding and sleep-deprivation interrogation techniques for the CIA. There were no dissenting votes from the congregation when Jesson's name was put before the members for a sustaining vote. The last line in the article is revealing. Bishop Jesson apparently does not believe that as a spiritual leader the basic rules of common civility apply to him.
http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2019468677_bishop19.html
Re: Torture Architect Called as Bishop
Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2012 3:26 pm
by _Bond James Bond
God being God qua jerky bastard.
Re: Torture Architect Called as Bishop
Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2012 3:27 pm
by _Willy Law
"As a bishop — an unpaid, part-time position that usually lasts several years — Jessen will take confessions and help people with their personal problems,"
Personal problems such as masturbation and gayness.
Re: Torture Architect Called as Bishop
Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2012 3:44 pm
by _DarkHelmet
There were no dissenting votes from the congregation when Jesson's name was put before the members for a sustaining vote.
That's shocking
He got 100% of the vote. Has that ever happened before?
Re: Torture Architect Called as Bishop
Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2012 3:49 pm
by _Fence Sitter
DarkHelmet wrote:There were no dissenting votes from the congregation when Jesson's name was put before the members for a sustaining vote.
That's shocking
He got 100% of the vote. Has that ever happened before?
It is highly unusual, but I am told there was a waterboard leaning against the sacrament table to encourage people to vote correctly.
Re: Torture Architect Called as Bishop
Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2012 5:04 pm
by _Kishkumen
Equality wrote:The LDS Church in Spokane, Washington has called Bruce Jesson to be a Mormon Bishop, according to the Seattle Times. Jesson developed the waterboarding and sleep-deprivation interrogation techniques for the CIA. There were no dissenting votes from the congregation when Jesson's name was put before the members for a sustaining vote. The last line in the article is revealing. Bishop Jesson apparently does not believe that as a spiritual leader the basic rules of common civility apply to him.
http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2019468677_bishop19.html
I object.
Re: Torture Architect Called as Bishop
Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2012 5:24 pm
by _lulu
Speechless.
Re: Torture Architect Called as Bishop
Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2012 5:28 pm
by _Chap
As a bishop ... Jessen will take confessions ...
Yeah, I'm sure there will be a lot of those.
Re: Torture Architect Called as Bishop
Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2012 5:41 pm
by _just me
Yes. It's good that he came up with these techniques because we all know that people always tell the truth when they are tortured.
Re: Torture Architect Called as Bishop
Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2012 6:38 pm
by _Chap
just me wrote:Yes. It's good that he came up with these techniques because we all know that people always tell the truth when they are tortured.
Splash ... mmmmmph .... splash .... mmmmmmmph!
(gurgle) I-know-the-church-is-true!
I-know-with-every-fibre-of-my-being-that (aaaaah, aaaaaaaaah, thank you for taking the cellophane off), Joseph-Smith-is-a-prophet-of-God ....
(pause)
No!!!! Please, not again ....!
I-have-a-testimony-of-the-Book-of-Mormon!
(and so on ....)