Posted by:
elderolddog
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Date: February 27, 2021 11:11AM
If you couple reading the content of your cited article with reading this story,
https://religionnews.com/2020/01/31/mormons-and-everyone-else-will-soon-have-access-to-the-churchs-handbook/ you'll see that
1. ULM was 'in the wrong' in helping/urging dissemination of the content of the Bishop's Handbook, which was quite properly copyrighted and thus entitled to the protection the church sought.
and
2. It no longer matters, since the entire Handbook is now online, available to anyone who wants to read it.
But I didn't see that the earlier issue was solved as to all the older versions of the Handbook, which the church wanted to be kept secret. It appears as if the church has given up trying to hide the embarrassment that issues from being the authors of what is supposed to pass for continuing revelation.
The Religious News article points some of this out.
Sometimes one is left to contemplate the possibility that the mormon church makes stuff up and then later regrets it, but pretends it doesn't. You know, ghawds are mysterious...
My favorite was the distinction the modern prophets made back in the day between "We will go down..." and "She will NOT go down..."