John Dehlin as Oscar Romero

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_Tavares Standfield
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John Dehlin as Oscar Romero

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With the latest sad development in John Dehlin's long struggle against the oppressive LDS Church I couldn't help but think about the similarities between Oscar Romero and John Dehlin. As I'm sure many of you know, Oscar Romero is considered a major force in Catholic liberation theology. And, just as Dehlin, Romero sacrificed his own interests and eventually his own life for the betterment of his people.

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From Wikipedia:

Romero was shot on 24 March 1980 while celebrating Mass, at a small chapel located in a hospital called "La Divina Providencia", one day after a sermon in which he had called on Salvadoran soldiers, as Christians, to obey God's higher order and to stop carrying out the government's repression and violations of basic human rights. As soon as he finished his sermon, Romero proceeded to the middle of the altar and at that moment he was shot.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%93scar_Romero

As John Dehlin begins to prepare for his moment of truth before an unjust and repressive tribunal I hope some of those who never miss and opportunity to attack John will reflect on just how much he's given up to liberate Mormons suffering under the oppressive LDS corporate regime. What John has done is present a Mormon theology of liberation. Through non-violent means he has brought about a cultural revolution of sorts within the Church. Because of his work he now has a target on his back. But what the oppressive regime fails to understand is that John's influence will only grow stronger due to their actions.
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Re: John Dehlin as Oscar Romero

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Well, at least John can look forward to being shot now.
"You lack vision, but I see a place where people get on and off the freeway. On and off, off and on all day, all night.... Tire salons, automobile dealerships and wonderful, wonderful billboards reaching as far as the eye can see. My God, it'll be beautiful." -- Judge Doom
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Tobin wrote:Well, at least John can look forward to being shot now.


Metaphorically this is what will happen on the 25th.
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Tavares Standfield wrote:Metaphorically this is what will happen on the 25th.
Well, at least he will know metaphorically when he will die in a bloody hail of bullets. Poor Oscar wasn't given a heads-up. I'm sure he would have liked to know.
"You lack vision, but I see a place where people get on and off the freeway. On and off, off and on all day, all night.... Tire salons, automobile dealerships and wonderful, wonderful billboards reaching as far as the eye can see. My God, it'll be beautiful." -- Judge Doom
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More Je Suis John Dehlin.

He is Charlie and Romero.

Wow.
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It's around the time that anything John Dehlin has done gets compared to liberation theology that you realize the bar for intellectualism in the LDS Church is so low as to be on the ground.

But yeah, equating that organization's silly little paternalistic discipline system to being a martyr is not at all the most maudlin hyperbole anyone can think of.

Maybe Kate Kelley is the Diane Fossey of the LDS Church.
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This one time, I went to a seminar where this company was selling timeshares, and I totally told them it was a rip-off and no sensible person who thought through their sales pitch would buy it. Then I walked out.

I'm glad to have stood up as an activist for social justice, like John Dehlin and Benito Juarez.
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Mayan Elephant wrote:More Je Suis John Dehlin.

He is Charlie and Romero.

Wow.


I think this may be John's response to you, Mr. Elephant.

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I envision a John Dehlin biopic in which Susan Sarandon plays a Relief Society president who has dedicated her life to social justice and begins emailing Dehlin as he awaits his church court date. As she gets to know Dehlin more as a human being, not just some apostate monster, the RS president starts campaigning against the harshness of the church court system, petitioning for reform. She seeks clemency, in which the sentence will be reduced to disfellwoshipment.

I see the title as, "Excommunicated Man Walking."
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