|
02-12-2008, 01:34 AM | #1 |
Assistant to the Regional Manager
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: The Orgasmatron
Posts: 24,338
|
Reading Solemn Covenant
B. Carmon Hardy, a former professor at BYU, now at Cal Fullerton, who wrote on Post Manifesto Polygamy. Well-footnoted and interesting. It looks like a great companion to "In Sacred Loneliness."
__________________
Ἓν οἶδα ὅτι οὐδὲν οἶδα |
02-12-2008, 09:07 PM | #2 | |
Junior Member
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: North Pole
Posts: 148
|
Quote:
Don't let your bishop or sp see you with a copy of Solemn Covenant though, it is too much truth for the mullahs and taliban authorities in the church.
__________________
. "He has all the virtues I dislike--and none of the vices I admire." -Winston Churchill "He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends." -Oscar Wilde "In order to avoid being called a flirt, she always yielded easily." -Charles, Count Talleyrand |
|
02-15-2008, 05:49 AM | #3 |
Assistant to the Regional Manager
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: The Orgasmatron
Posts: 24,338
|
It's a great book so far and very fair. Too bad the Church went so hard on him for publishing his works.
__________________
Ἓν οἶδα ὅτι οὐδὲν οἶδα |
02-15-2008, 05:08 PM | #4 |
Charon
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: In the heart of darkness (Provo)
Posts: 9,564
|
What is the story there?
__________________
"... the arc of the universe is long but it bends toward justice." Martin Luther King, Jr. |
02-16-2008, 02:48 AM | #5 |
Assistant to the Regional Manager
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: The Orgasmatron
Posts: 24,338
|
As I understand it, he worked at BYU during a time when publishing this stuff was not favored, was requested to cease his research, he continued and it looked as if he would be ex'ed for it, so he removed his name to avoid a stink He asked his children to remain active which they did for a while. He still remains friendly to the Church and doesn't rail against it. However, that episode cost us a good scholar.
My opinion is obviously different than leadership's, but I would only excommunicate those who urged others to follow them, in essence usurping the authority of the leadership and began setting up a splinter faction. It appears the leadership desires to scare academics into not going out on the limb too much.
__________________
Ἓν οἶδα ὅτι οὐδὲν οἶδα |
Bookmarks |
|
|