Mayan Elephant wrote:i believe him when he says he will refuse to resign.
i think the church gets nothing from tying his excommunication to kelly's. if you read the comments at meridian and the deseret news, along with some of the editorials, you can see a real difference between kelly and dehlin.
kelly was, to a common member, a real threat and heretic.
dehlin is just a self-aggrandizing publisher of stuff. to many of them, he is no different than 'the internet.' you cannot excommunicate the internet, so why bother with this guy. and, keeping him shows that this is not about exing people with doubts. it is about ridding themselves of the people attacking their doctrine.
dehlin will not get his free fame, they wont even have a court for him.
I don't understand how Kate Kelly could be considered a greater threat than John Dehlin. He has, I believe, a much larger following than she does. He is much more outspoken about not believing in the fundamentals of Mormonism. He addresses a wider range of problematic issues than Ordain Women.
Believe in the church and support church leaders while asking to attend even more church meetings and asking the leaders to ask God about female ordination = excommunication.
Express disbelief in many or most of the fundamentals of the church while giving a platform to some of the church's most prominent critics and highlighting the most problematic aspects of church culture and doctrine = good standing.
What a joke. If the church takes no action against John Dehlin, I guess the message is that the church considers female ordination a far bigger can of worms than all the issues John Delhin addresses so they have to cut the movement off in its infancy.
There are some who call me...Tim.
