wenglund wrote:
Not necessarily. It all depends upon how we are lumped together with Nazis. If we are lumped together under organizations that existed in Germany prior to WWII, I don'[t think LDS would be the least bit offended by that. I certainly wouldn't be. Even if we were lumped together within the broad-rqanged superset of authoritarian organizations, I don't know that I would object.
It also depends upon why we are being lumped together. If the intent is to shift the discussion from personal attacks to looking at public policy issues in a progressive way (as was the case with me), then I can't see LDS being offended. However, if the intent is to personally attack (which mine wasn't), then I can see your point.
You may recall that during the discussions in the past, I mentioned that I have a learning disorder--audio processing. As such, I am lumped together with people of differing learning disorders, form moderate to severe. Because of my learning disorder, I may rightly be lumped into the general category of disorders along with people with sexual attraction disorder (including those to which you take offence). All, for good reason, and without the least bit of offence intended or the least bit of offence taken by me.
Your larger set consisted of nothing but a list of predatory sexual behavior. Yet you insist homosexuals should not be offended by being lumped in with pedophilia, bestiality, and necrophilia. Given this logic, you should have NO problem with Mormonism being included in a set that included only the social movement equivalent of pedophilia:
Naziism, Heaven's Gate, The People's Temple, Charles Manson's family.
No problem, right?
Then, after creating this website, calling myself a "center" for studying these movements, to follow Wade's footsteps I would have to next go to LDS boards and invite them to my website, and then pretend that their offense is just "saying more about them" then it is about me.
Actually, Wade, this is entirely about you.