wenglund wrote:I'm sorry, let me quote you exactly since you seem to require a high precision of language even with informal questions.
I simply try to make sure that we are on the same page, guy. Nothing to get your panties in a bunch about. ;-)
wenglund wrote:Here is my reworded question: "Could you give some examples of what you deem 'puerile and tasteless' about the apologist you claimed 'heckled Grant Palmer at a book store', as well as some examples of what the apologist said that you considered 'heckling'?"
I believe it was Louis Midgley who showed up at a book event for Grant Palmer, making a lot of noise and interrupting him. There are a number of things that Midgley has pulled that were puerile and tasteless. Most of them were in print. As for what he precisely said, I do not recall. I think he accused Palmer of being a liar.
wenglund wrote:It will give me a sense for the proportionality of your perception, particularly in light of the kinds antics that go on here under the guise of "debate". In fact, I would like to see how it compares to what was said in the OP of this thread.
I am not here to defend much of what is said here. I would agree that a good deal of what is said here and elsewhere by critics of the LDS Church is puerile and tasteless. I don't know why you imagine you can divine my standards based on my sense of this one Midgley incident. If you were to follow my posting history here, I think you would find that I can cut both ways on these things. Take, for example, my recommendation to Scratch that he not use a quote from DCP that I heard second hand. He didn't listen, but I felt obliged to say it out of my personal sense of fairness.
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