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_Boaz & Lidia
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Ask Gramps of askgramps.org knows the truth now...

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Looks like nobody will be able to ask him sunday school questions anymore...

http://www.askgramps.org/h-clay-gorton- ... 1923-2008/

RIP
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He sounds like a really nice bloke.

They don't come by too often.
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_Trevor
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Post by _Trevor »

I may not have thought much of his advice, but that was one accomplished guy. Amazing.
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_Rollo Tomasi
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Re: Ask Gramps of askgramps.org knows the truth now...

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Boaz & Lidia wrote:Looks like nobody will be able to ask him sunday school questions anymore...

http://www.askgramps.org/h-clay-gorton- ... 1923-2008/

RIP

He certainly led an interesting life. Here's a link to his more detailed autobiography:

http://www.thegortonfamily.com/journal/hcg_journal.htm

Point of trivia: Gramps and Wendall Hall were once missionary companions in Argentina. Both later served as MP's in Argentina (Hall also served as MTC president in Chile). Gramps went on to become a pseudo-apologist, and Hall (a former BYU prof) went on to become a pretty famous ex-mo. You can read about it at Hall's website here:

http://www.nuspel.org/Mormons.html

Both Clay and Wendall led/have led great lives of accomplishment but ended up on extreme ends when it came to Mormonism.
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Never heard of him.
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Post by _Rollo Tomasi »

Dr. Shades wrote:Never heard of him.

I don't know that he's ever been discussed here, but he certainly has been in other places (as far as I know, he does not personally post on bb's, but limits himself to his website and letters to the editor). A fascinating guy. Ex'ed simply for not believing anymore. Comes from a very TBM pioneerish family -- brother is Tracy Hall (inventor of the synthetic diamond, and also a former BYU prof). His website is well worth the read.
"Moving beyond apologist persuasion, LDS polemicists furiously (and often fraudulently) attack any non-traditional view of Mormonism. They don't mince words -- they mince the truth."

-- Mike Quinn, writing of the FARMSboys, in "Early Mormonism and the Magic World View," p. x (Rev. ed. 1998)
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Rollo Tomasi wrote:I don't know that he's ever been discussed here, but he certainly has been in other places (as far as I know, he does not personally post on bb's, but limits himself to his website and letters to the editor). A fascinating guy. Ex'ed simply for not believing anymore.


I was talking about Gramps himself, not Hall (although I've never heard of Hall, either).
"Finally, for your rather strange idea that miracles are somehow linked to the amount of gay sexual gratification that is taking place would require that primitive Christianity was launched by gay sex, would it not?"

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Post by _Rollo Tomasi »

Dr. Shades wrote:
Rollo Tomasi wrote:I don't know that he's ever been discussed here, but he certainly has been in other places (as far as I know, he does not personally post on bb's, but limits himself to his website and letters to the editor). A fascinating guy. Ex'ed simply for not believing anymore.


I was talking about Gramps himself, not Hall (although I've never heard of Hall, either).

You really need to get out more. ;)
"Moving beyond apologist persuasion, LDS polemicists furiously (and often fraudulently) attack any non-traditional view of Mormonism. They don't mince words -- they mince the truth."

-- Mike Quinn, writing of the FARMSboys, in "Early Mormonism and the Magic World View," p. x (Rev. ed. 1998)
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Bye!

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Accomplished or not, I read some of his answers to inquiries that made him seem like a horse's ass.
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Post by _kamenraider »

A great many of his answers were perfectly alright, but a few of them reminded me of the "Ask Dr. Stupid" segment from the Ren & Stimpy show where Stimpy pontificates while making up the answers as he goes along.
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