Rosalynde Welch takes on Mormon Stories

[_consiglieri]

Another excellent response to Welch's post (note especially his contradiction of her characterization of Laurel Thatcher Ulrich's reaction to the Mormon Stories conference experience, bolded below):

It did seem to me a tactical error on Welch's part when she likened the "Mormon Stories" scripts to those in sacrament meeting.

All the Best!

--Consiglieri

[_moksha]

Apologists sometimes operate on the mistaken assumption that if you poured authenticity on them, that apologists would melt.

[_Kishkumen]

It did seem to me a tactical error on Welch's part when she likened the "Mormon Stories" scripts to those in sacrament meeting.

All the Best!

--Consiglieri

Yes, she made a number of tactical errors, none of them very flattering of her, but all of them revealing of her attitudes.

[_consiglieri]

Yes, she made a number of tactical errors, none of them very flattering of her, but all of them revealing of her attitudes.

Though a tactical error, this one observation in her article at least had the unique advantage of being honest.

[_Kishkumen]

Though a tactical error, this one observation in her article at least had the unique advantage of being honest.

Oh, I bet her implicit critique of gay-straight alliance groups as trivial and morally insipid was also honest, albeit repugnant.

[_angsty]

Mormon Stories seems like a textbook liberal mini-institution, a lot like a high school gay-straight alliance and about as important.

That Welch actually composed and published this sentence indicates a bizarre lack of understanding, empathy, and maturity.

[_consiglieri]

Agreed.

Rosalynde jumped the shark with that one.

It almost sounded . . . .Petersonesque.

[_Kishkumen]

It almost sounded . . . .Petersonesque.

Almost?

I thought it was classic Peterson.

[_Bob Loblaw]

I thought it was classic Peterson.

At least it wasn't classic Droopy.

[_Kishkumen]

I thought it was classic Peterson.

At least it wasn't classic Droopy.

Ha! Classic Droopy wouldn't have a place on Patheos. Ms. Welch may have offered a poor argument like Droopy's usual fare, but she didn't use nearly enough adjectives.