especially if all of the questions were about the Book of Abraham, the Doctrine of Caine, Blood Atonement, MMM, No Man Knows My History, Changes to the Sacred Endowment....
All kinds of fun for us!!
Unfortunately, most of the audience, who know little or nothing about Mormonism and could care less, would be bored to tears.
Same here. He's probably going to be excommunicated for speaking out against the church since they don't want any more negative press. "What is a court of love?"
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It used to be that if you publically said you disagreed with the church, it was viewed as going against the "brethren" and grounds for losing your temple E Ticket.
I think we will see the church embracing more diversity of opinion going forward. People will think the church is all badass because they get to speak out without consequence. I guess for the Mormon church, that is a baby step in adapting to change.
Great interview. I don't think his membership is threatened yet...he's too big a name. He'll probably get a private knuckle-slap at most.
I still don't get how smart people stay in. The way the church is set up, the way they've positioned themselves, is that it's all true...or it's not, and Ken, in no small way, has totally disavowed (to use a now popular term) this policy.
In the interview, he says that he disagrees with a lot the church teaches, but he credits it with making him a good person. He doesn't want to leave, but he also doesn't sound very TBM.
This might be the push that sends him out, especially if they try to silence him.
I would agree that this could be the first step in that direction.
He might not take well to a private censure, and that could prompt him to speak out more, which, in turn, could cause this thing to spiral out of control (as far as the church is concerned).
But I don't think this one act, alone, will result in his being ex'd or disfellowshipped or publicly reprimanded.
I follow him on Twitter, and he occasionally says things there that would make the old men in the COB uncomfortable.
Believing that the church would "come around" was the keystone of my continued active involvement for years. I just knew that a new, fresh take on social issues was just around the corner.
I have a feeling they will ignore any dissenters. Ken Jennings denounces LDS antigay policy, along with several billion other folks. Cojcolds can't win with this one.
The only real logical conclusion you can draw from the evidence obviously screams out against Josephs Myth. It has to be a fraud As surely as 1+1=2. But some people like TBMs, are usually just smart enough to justify just about anything, like 1+1=3, because they feel thats right, hecause a General Authority said so, or somebody like Daniel Peterson. We live in a day and age where we co-exist, with extremes, far away from The world John Lennon Inagined.
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My bet is in that they will respond publicly to him, as he is prominent and made public statements. At this point, it looks to me like they want ssm out of the church, and don't really care if dissenters go. I'll be interested to see what happens. Pass the popcorn, please.
Most poignant quote: "This is not how Jesus would act."
Morg is being so insanely hypocritical it's not even funny. "We're all about the kids and the families, except just that you can't have gay parents because this is an arbitrarily big issue for us and were politicking right now lulz sry".
too bad for LDS Inc, their PR agents were so proud of the fact that Ken was a MORmON and the attendant bragging rights they automatically ASSumed. Not any more !!!!
This is going to be a real tricky one for LDS Ince to handle. I cannot wait to see how it turns out.
I think if he shuts up after this interview he will get away with expressing his views publicly this one time but the fact that he gave the interview to JD, LDS Inc's arch enemy, may be too much for the old boys to swallow.