Re: Colorado shooting suspect appears to be LDS
Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2022 4:13 pm
Proving causality between teachings of LDS church and murdering people at LGBTQ club isn't really feasible.dastardly stem wrote: ↑Thu Nov 24, 2022 3:23 pmAdmittedly I’m not following this line of reasoning. He has history with Mormonism therefore his psychotic move to shoot people at a LGBTQ club was due to the Mormon church? And he’s LGBTQ? Not saying Mormonism had no influence on him, but it also seems possible he had no Mormonism in mind at all.
We just hypothesizing here?
It seems irrelevant that he's choosing to climb under LGBTQ umbrella himself as to whether there is some link with LDS church.
What does seem to be clear though is that the church has an appalling recent history with those in the LGBTQ community: aversion therapy, prop 8, Nov policy, muskets, to name a few.
The church announced that it was "problematic" to condemn an entire religion based on a shooter's actions.
Irrespective of any link with the shooter, the Church is still complicit with discrimination against the LGBTQ community and irresponsible rhetoric involving "musket fire" is incendiary.
Many argue that the "musket fire" lines are benign, but for me the issue is: what happens if instead of Jeff H. having said it, if it were Donald T. that had said it. I'd find it so much more plausible to find a causal link. That said, there are extremists in all organizations that will interpret literally prophetic utterances. Hence Jeff H. needs to be a lot more careful.
LDS Inc. should be taking every opportunity to promote healing within the LGBTQ community, based on pass discriminations, rather than a hyper-sensitive defensive of being linked with a massacre.