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11-13-2008, 07:39 PM | #22 |
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you don't think a GA has ever counseled someone to give up their job in order to do something for the church. Like give up their job so they can attend church, as an example?
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11-13-2008, 07:42 PM | #23 |
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I think we have a new qualifier for Darwin award. The only straight, LDS theater artistic director in Los Angeles who gave $1,000 to Proposition 8.
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But I'm talking about general advice to the Church as a whole, not specific callings. This general advice (to support Prop 8, for example) obviously can't possibly apply to every individual member. |
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How predictable
Seattle and Mike are in this issue.
If the two of you peered a little more closely at this you might detect a disturbing tactic at work: Silencing critics by intimidation. Think Kristallnacht. Think Maoism. It's a very popular tactic on the American Left. Kind of like showing up at a press conference and shouting down your opponents so they can't get their message out. Or shouting down an unpopular speaker at a univesity. But you approve of what happened here, and so you see no problem.
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You're a critic. You're not silenced. Mr. Theater guy is a critic. His quotes are all over the media and blogosphere. But yes, there are sheep here, that are afraid to say anything. |
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11-13-2008, 07:49 PM | #27 | |
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I have never interpreted sustaining as meaning "always doing what someone says." |
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11-13-2008, 07:51 PM | #28 | |
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Still, LA, I'm uncomfortable with you lumping me and Waters together.
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What a shame.
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11-13-2008, 07:52 PM | #30 |
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SU is an idiot. Don't lump me in with him.
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