"In his role as presiding bishop, Bishop Burton handles "mostly the business affairs of the church," including humanitarian aid and the development of the $1.5 billion City Creek Center, which is about a year from completion."
give each other awards all the time. It's like they look around the world and see only themselves and each other.
My dad used to remark that a person would work much harder for an award plaque than for more money. We threw out a couple of boxes of his when he died. They had been in the attic for years.
I like how they touched a little on the humanitarian causes, and then launched into a long discriptive narrative on his association with City Creek. Hmmm, let's see, what's the most important thing to them?
Oh jeeezzuss. We have the Governor, the contractors, the presiding Bishop, a few legislators ... and all of them are white, mormon, and tightly knit into the power web.
It's not just disgusting, it's scary.
This story is a snapshot of the dangerous patriarchy/theocracy in action, lauding their own questionable ethical framework.
These are the people who keep all the goodies for themselves. These are the people who are righteously indignant when anyone asks them to operate according to rules that most Americans agree are fair: equal opportunity, equal rights, transparency in government, transparency in financial affairs of all major institutions, respect for and interactions with minorities and with the underprivileged.
Mrs Truthseeker's grandpa gave a patriarchal blessing to Burton's grandson a month ago in which he told him that he is named after a very prominent gawd. Still no word on the name of the gawd (probably too sacred), just that this gawd was known for his works and power. It may have been joseph, brigham, gordon, but defintitely not jesus.
Mrs Truthseeker's grandpa is a patriarch in the SLC area. He writes all his kids/grandkids etc. once a week and usually keeps us updated on how many blessings he's given and any interesting bits of info he is moved upon to pronounce. A month ago he wrote that he gave a blessing to a young man and in the blessing he said the boy was named after a prominent gawd. This particular gawd is known for his power and works. He did not name the gawd, but later in the letter mentioned that the boy was the grandson of Presiding Bishop Burton. Grandpa-in-law did say this is the first time he has ever received prompting to state the recipient is named after a gawd.
Haha. I bet that surprised the parents when they were told he was named after a god, they did it and they didn't even know it. Mormon god works in a mysterious way -- hey, I thought he said he was a jealous god. Hmm. I wonder what his name was, maybe Kevin, Bobby, Rick, Jordan? Sounds like grandpa-in-law might be doing shit to get himself in trouble. Thanks for the fun.
$500 million (prophesied by Gordon Hinkster) $1 billion (recent DN article on the project) $1.5 billion (this current "news" article) $3 billion (the church's own PR dept. some months ago) $8 billion+ (prophecy of our own Mighty Builder)
Which lie/truth are we to stick with ... with sealed finances we may never know how much tithing was wasted on this business-bust of a project.
I think he's getting an award NOW before the REAL bad news hits in a year -- all those unsold condos, all that unrented store space ... how valuable will this award be then? ... Burton will probably hide it away in his attic too.
weeder Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I think he's getting an award NOW before the REAL > bad news hits in a year -- all those unsold > condos, all that unrented store space ... how > valuable will this award be then? Who cares. This year, another 2 to 3 billion in tithing will enter the church's coffers as "unrestricted funds".
Then in 2012, another 2 to 3 billion will come in, no questions asked - not by the sheep, nor by the IRS.
Then in 2013, well, you get the picture...
These old dudes are not worried about a few billions here or there. They don't run a business, they run a church. Money for nothing.