Posted by:
steve benson
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Date: August 21, 2018 02:39PM
When I publicly blew the whistle on Oaks in 1993 for comfortably lying about his fellow Mormon hit-man Boyd K. Packer-orchestrated excommunication of Salt Lake author Paul Toscano, dastardly Dallin determined that I had failed in my then-LDS obligation to believe and follow non-folksy Oaksy as a high Mormon Church leader. Oaks expected me to cover for him after he blatantly lied in the open about what he and I had talked about behind closed doors in the offices of the Church Administration Building.
In an on-the-record interview with an "Arizona Republic" newspaper reporter, Paul Brinkley-Rogers, Oaks shamelessly misrepresented the truth about Packer’s involvement in the excommunication of Toscano--who had attracted scowling Church attention for, among other things, suggesting that members need not perpetuate a Cult of Personality by standing up when General Authorities walked into the room.
When I eventually called out Oaks for his lies, he went to the Church-owned "Deseret News" to respond thusly: "Time wounds all heels/" Here's how the Mormon Church's house organ reported it:
"Sitting in his office in the LDS Church administration building, Elder Dallin H. Oaks carefully reads a news report that says he admitted to 'falsely telling' a journalist he had no knowledge of an event involving the excommunication of a Church member. 'Life isn't fair,' Elder Oaks said. 'Somebody said that time heals all wounds. But it's also true that time wounds all heels,' he added in jest."
("Elder Oaks Says News Story 'Seriously Distorted' Facts," by Matthew S. Brown, Staff Writer, Deseret News, 16 October 1993)
"Jest," my eye. Oaks just got busted.
How apostolic.
How Christ-like.
How dishonest.
How Oaks.
(related RFM link:
https://www.exmormon.org/phorum/read.php?2,2145876)
Edited 4 time(s). Last edit at 08/22/2018 01:45AM by steve benson.