Posted by:
jiminycricket
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Date: June 16, 2014 02:19PM
I enjoyed Dehlin's comments. He seemed polite and measured (careful). I learned from this radio interview that it was Elder Holland who was the GA that Dehlin had a private meeting with who told him to stay in the church.
Side note:
Holland is now in the hot seat. He's on the record for telling Dehlin to stay in the church. He's on the record with the BBC interview being caught in a lie and branding himself a dodo. He's on the record with his exchange with Tom Phillips where he did not answer Phillps' thoughtful questions: see
http://www.mormonthink.com/files/phillips-holland.pdf Last year when MormonThink put up its free-way sign, it was Holland and Uchtdorf who (reported here on RFM) advocated an emergency release of the essays - ASAP. Holland has the power to stop all this excommunication stuff. His private counsel to Dehlin is now on the line.
I also learned from the interview that Dehlin has heard of reports where GA's and Area Authorities are advising their minions (stake presidents etc.) to weed out the dissenters, i.e. church disciplinary action. All I can think of is that the GAs still have no answers. They're locked into their 20th century thinking that they must control the information and discussion within the church. They don't know how to deal with the massive information explosion available at the click of a computer mouse. They've lost control. In essence, they're in a panic.
To complicate things worse, all they really care about is receiving positive PR at every turn in the road, and these excommunication threats are being discussed with news/radio/TV outlets. TSCC can spend millions of $$$ on "I'M a Mormon Campaigns" etc. and loose every penny and more with this negative PR in one 24-hour newscycle.
Last, I learned it was Dehlin who went to the media and it has made his Stake President "mad." I'm sure he doesn't like his name and letter to Dehlin being dragged all over cyberspace or enjoys the attention because it will reflect how his little flock will view him on whatever the outcome is.
Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 06/16/2014 04:29PM by jiminycricket.