Tal Bachman wrote:If you don't publish your letter through a major media outlet, you will remain sitting on the sidelines shouting out your critical remarks, but be heard by relatively few. Is that what you want? Is it worth all the time and effort you devote to your cause? Why not go for big time exposure and bring all your angst to the forefront of possible discussion? You have the support of your brethren behind you.
---I suppose if I wanted to make a crusade of things, I could.
It's just that you seem to be complaining about where all the damn Mormons are to try and carry on a rational conversation with. By actually going public and creating a larger stir it seems as though you would be more likely to be in a position where you would be invited to sit on a roundtable of sorts and have the opportunity to go at it with the likes of Terryl L. Givens, Grant Underwood, Armand L. Mauss, Duane Jeffrey, David L. Paulsen, and Richard Bushman...among others. You have to go out and engage these guys!
Your audience is small online. Those that you bash with here are small fry compared to the bigger fish in the ocean.
No better way than creating a stir by a letter to President Monson published in the SL Tribune where you're basically calling him and the church onto the carpet. You've even had offers to help out with the placement of your letter in that venue and others.
I'm assuming that you're not apprehensive about getting bloodied up a bit, right? The strengthening the church committee can't get you anymore and the Danites are out of vogue/operation at this stage of the game. <g>
What have you got to lose?
It almost seems as though you might like that; is it because it would just increase that wonderful sense of victimhood?
No, nothing like that.
Regards,
MG