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Date: July 16, 2012 11:50AM
http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/blogsoutofcontext/54494604-64/romney-trib-says-bain.html.cspI just sort of skimmed the article, and it seems to me that author Kirn could use use a little "perspective" and realize his dysfunctional family amounted to "golden prospects" for the missionaries that converted him. Perhaps then he might truly come to terms with the toxicity...
And this long, self-indulgent piece seems to me to have more in common with general dysfunction--not that I can't relate; I certainly do, perhaps too much--rather than actual Mormonism-specific dysfunction. At least the BIC sort I come here to learn about in my "personal quest" to re-write my own childhood with a happy ending...
He indulges in some "smears" of Mormonism himself, detailing his troubled girlfriend and regaling us with a bit of teenage titillation; why, one wonders, hasn't he engaged in the sort of introspection to see why he "pursued" such sorts; I see he's still talking of "a girl he met via the Internet" and other stuff...
I wish him well, but I think he should come hang out here for a while and plunge into exorcising his own issues before attempting to offer anything really objective about Mormon ones.
His "sympathy for Mitt" is a codependent one...