rcrocket wrote:Now, as I recall, at some point in his academic life -- around 1980 or so -- Quinn really didn't care one way or the other about people knowing of his orientation. He was public about it and was seen in MHA meetings with his paramour.
Two questions:
1) Who was his "paramour"?
2) Who---and I mean
everyone---bore witness to this? If it was as "public" as you claim, it should be easy to conjure up a couple of witnesses, at least two or three, I would think.
But, quite naturally, that would set BYU Profs' tongues a-waggin', primarily because they wondered how long such a prominent person could last at BYU in his public condition.
But that's not how things work at BYU at all, and everyone knows it. If this kind of information had been circulated at the Lord's University, Quinn would have been given his walking papers in short order. We already have pretty clear information that BKP had it in for Quinn, and further, we know how BKP feels about homosexuality, as per his "little factory" talk. Your story doesn't make any sense at all, and further, we know that you have a tendency to distort the truth, as per your MMM article, documentation of which can be found on my blog.
Is that truly gossiping, when Dr. Quinn was open about it?
You are the only person I've ever heard claim that it was "open," and frankly, I don't think you're telling us the truth. You haven't ever provided any concrete details, and I have never heard anyone corroborate your story.
Come now; you continually anonymously smear Dr. Peterson of his talking about Quinn's orientation in the 1990s when it was all old news and public news.
So far as I am concerned, Quinn's homosexuality was not "public" until 1996, when he officially announced it. It may have been "old news," thanks to the gossiping of folks like DCP and yourself, Bishop Bob. Tell me: Do your parishioners know about your relaxed attitude towards sexual gossipmongering?
Quinn basically set himself up for all this chatter with his ridiculous same-sex dynamics book which really torpedoed his career for its silly concluusions.
See what I mean? You've just blown your own toes off. There is really no justification for the kind of gossip you, DCP, and the rest of your ilk have been engaging in. The best you can muster is, "He brought it on himself!" Further, the same-sex dynamics book was published
almost twenty years after all of this gossip was taking place!
I was also working at BYU when Quinn was readying his magic book for publication, and it depended largely upon the legitimacy of the Salamander letter. Whilst in the midst of proofing, I recall (it was in a very advanced stage), the Hoffman affair was exposed and Quinn was forced to rewrite the book without the benefit of a major prong in his argument. The result was a very poor work which set himself up for failure. I say all this because by the mid-1990s, Dr. Quinn was a very public figure. I don't think that folks can be guilty of "gossip" for talking about a very public figure whose orientation was self-outed long before the gossip.
I'm not even sure what your point is here, unless it's some kind of lame attempt on your part to blame Quinn for your rotten behavior.
However, you continue to be the vile poster that you are, maliciously and anonymously attacking the reputations of real persons with little regard to the facts. Go ahead; I'm in your cross-hairs once again.
rcrocket
Right. And you continue to proffer baloney, evidence-free defenses of behavior which helped to destroy the career and livelihood of the greatest of all LDS historians.