Clearly an uninspired PR person giving this interview...

"Where in the Mormon doctrine does it say women cannot receive the priesthood" was asked by Doug, and she cannot answer it.

...And she just went against the Blacks and the Priesthood Ban Essay...

What a crock.
https://www.lds.org/topics/race-and-the-priesthood?lang=eng

And an appeal to the masses. "We are 15 million members strong"

she's falling apart, and I'm loving it! :-)

Lies. Maybe not on her part, maybe just uniformed, but absolutely these were orders from the top.

She's getting agitated and defensive. Typical mo.

...well, she SAID she has only been on the job for 6 months. So, technically, maybe she's still on probation. Maybe the Church will dump her for non-performance..........

ConcernedCitizen Wrote:
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> ...well, she SAID she has only been on the job for
> 6 months.

So why did they send her as a spokesperson then? It couldn't have anything to do with the fact that she is the only woman they could hastily scrounge!!

I love it when he asked her if Elder Ballard went to Virginia on June 2 and her response was "uh, I don't know." So you aren't up to speed on current events surrounding this action? Why did you agree to this interview if you are so ill-prepared? I mean, it almost sounds as if your only preparation was a set of talking points about how excommunication is actually a positive thing.

What's the point of maintaining this plausibile deniability about a purge if you believe all leaders, local and general, are being inspired by the same deity?

It's the local god.

Brilliant! The Local God! And if it is not the local god, you are most assuredly viewing this through a mortal lens.

And you are only assigned one mortal lens, so be careful not to break it. Glass viewing, anyone?

The best way to make sure your mortal lens is safe is to paper it over with mormonism and never let anyone know you have it.

She is a PR disaster!! The church made a mistake sending her.

...and she said John and Kate are lying when they say they were surprised by the letters.

interesting that she can't seem to speak for anything else, but she can sure as sh!t speak for John and Kate.

How can she know they weren't surprised by the letters if it's purely a local matter?

Excellent point. :)

Why didn't they just send Abinadi to do the radio interview?

Maybe they're saving him for other media since his old-man-ripped-chest is so a TV-genic.

Is there a recorded version or a playback? I want to listen.

Dodgeawench,

Under the picture on the web page there is a blue playback button click "listen". Worked for me on my ipad.


http://radiowest.kuer.org/post/latter-day-saints-and-excommunication-part-ii

Wench...Wrench, both things which should be dodged.

They replay it tonight at 7:00 Mountain time. Go to the Radio West website and you can listen online if you're not in the SLC area.

And not one of the 15 miserable cowards that inhabit temple square are willing to appear and answer for the church.
Not one of them willing to stand up and be valiant in their testimonies of Jesus.
Pharisaaic lying cowardly bastar-- each and every one of them.

+1

I was thinking the same thing. Some leaders, eh?

They are profits, not prophets.

Well, remember how well it went for Holland on the BBC.

I really thought Doug was pitching her a bunch of slow balls, and she was getting flustered, and couldn't provide a straight answer.

This spokes-gal is a mess!

A non Mormon would think that she's insane.

What is this mormon woman doing out of the kitchen??!

She should have been home changing diapers and let a priesthood holder explain this to the public!

Some grandfatherly high priest with a law degree and a Cache Valley accent going into the 'aw shucks' routine would be much better management of this situation.

...or, she should have stayed with the Shurtleff campaign. At least she would have have the "correct" talking points..........

What struck me when I listened to it was her wrapping so much of her rhetoric in the "Savior" as if Jesus were personally directing what the morg is doing. Case closed. How do you argue with that? I think she was preaching to the choir, not answering pertinent questions (until cornered).

It was a rather predictable argument. For TBM's she hit upon all the major points she needed to and she then pulled it back into the old personal spiritual test- if you have a problem with your faith, that's between you and God so shhhh.

From the logical standpoint of a nevermo, I was giggling at the lack of providing answers.

I also find it interesting on how each podcaster announces Dehlin. Is it surprising to anyone else that when introducing Dehlin they just say he talks about troubles in church history? It is almost like there is a reverence from the masses to not bring up the truth. Or am I exaggerating here?