I have a question wrote:Half the membership will think it's great, half will think it's heinous.
I would guess it is more like a third for each side and a third that doesn't care (the percent that don't care might even be much higher). At least that is my hope.
"If you consider what are called the virtues in mankind, you will find their growth is assisted by education and cultivation." -Xenophon of Athens
Mormons get their crumb after the humiliation re: Romney and Huntsman. The real power and prestige will be shared with the Evangelicals, not some "cult of Christianity" that dared to question pussy-grabbing as a presidential qualification. Evangelicals are capable of greater moral subtlety.
I don't know anything about the inner workings of the MoTab, but I wonder if there are individual choir members who just won't be able to stomach the idea of singing and performing at an event that sustains/endorses and honors Trump.
Would it be okay for such a choir member to abstain?
RAJ wrote:I don't know anything about the inner workings of the MoTab, but I wonder if there are individual choir members who just won't be able to stomach the idea of singing and performing at an event that sustains/endorses and honors Trump.
Would it be okay for such a choir member to abstain?
Apparently the choir that performs will consist solely of volunteers - and there are no penalties for not volunteering.
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Maksutov: "... if you give someone else the means to always push your buttons, you're lost."
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Trump could be doing a "Romney for Secretary of State" move on the Tabernacle Choir. Invite them to sing, and then cancel at the last minute and leave them standing there in humiliation. Just as the Lannisters always pay their debts, Trump never pays his debts, but he always gets his revenge.
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Sanctorian wrote:It's not shocking really. Get your choir out in front of all the weak minded hillbillies in hopes that some convert. Those suckers voted Trump. If they believe that guy will be a good president, they might believe Joe was a prophet. Sounds like they've identified their target market.
I agree. I actually think there is an additional benefit to the alliance now the cat is out of the bag on Joseph Smith's behavior. If members can accept T's immorality on behalf of the "greater good" then they will be more open to accepting Smith's.
Lou Midgley 08/20/2020: "...meat wad," and "cockroach" are pithy descriptions of human beings used by gemli? They were not fashioned by Professor Peterson.
LM 11/23/2018: one can explain away the soul of human beings...as...a Meat Unit, to use Professor Peterson's clever derogatory description of gemli's ideology.
