The Vision of the Anointed Never Faileth at FAIR

[_bcspace]

I do disagree with censoring posters bearing the former message they were given. It takes time for new ways of thinking to be accepted.

The Church hasn't changed it's response to the issue or it's doctrine.

[_harmony]

Oh, I could not agree more. If there is any organization that is amenable to a grass-roots movement toward liberalization led by a female scholar, it is the LDS Church.

Laughter... the best medicine.

[_Darth J]

The recent Church Newsroom statement regarding the Church's position on race, generally speaking, and the priesthood ban specifically, has apparently been perceived by a core of MDD board moderators as a throwing down of the gauntlet and a license to take off the politically correct gloves and rhetorically run other TBM/conservative/libertarian posters out of the church.

The sandcastles of our pride have been washed away by mockingbirds of hubris, which will paint us into a corner of pathos.

[_Yoda]

Well, Droopy, you know that you are always welcome here.

[_Morley]

No disrespect, Droopy, but a brief aside.

In a post full of mixed metaphors, this is my favorite:

Its one thing to steady the ark, but how many bodies can one cram into the Holy of Holies at one time...

though

Please, I'm not crying sour grapes.

...is pretty good.

But the first job is to be effective - make you note what he's saying. Mission accomplished, I say.

Not sure if you're serious or not, but I enjoyed it.

To be honest, I was too distracted by the style to pick up much of what he was saying. Blame it on my mad reading skillz.

[_Dr. Shades]

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[_Spurven Ten Sing]

Droopy, pleas stop lumping conservatism and libertarianism together. Libertarianism is a philosophy of peace and respecting your neighbor. Conservatism is about war and controlling your neighbor.

[_Fionn]

Are you surprised, Droopy? Really?

I imagine there were many faithful saints who felt the same way when Adam/God, polygamy and the ban itself were jettisoned in the name of political expediency.

I imagine Randy Bott is feeling much the same way at the moment. You espouse the position you were taught and which was clearly laid out for all to see. But. That position is now embarrassing. And so are the saints who insist on talking about it.

You are now on the receiving end of social pressure to conform. Not very pleasant, is it?

[_Drifting]

Are you surprised, Droopy? Really?

I imagine there were many faithful saints who felt the same way when Adam/God, polygamy and the ban itself were jettisoned in the name of political expediency.

I imagine Randy Bott is feeling much the same way at the moment. You espouse the position you were taught and which was clearly laid out for all to see. But. That position is now embarrassing. And so are the saints who insist on talking about it.

You are now on the receiving end of social pressure to conform. Not very pleasant, is it?

It is remarkable that God is so consistent. He makes His will on a subject known once society has determined what God's will on a subject should be.

[_consiglieri]

The Church hasn't changed it's response to the issue or it's doctrine.

What possesses you to say such things?

The Church went from saying we do know why the ban to we don't know why the ban.

How is that not changing its response? (Editorial note--No apostrophe necessary.)

All the Best!

--Consiglieri