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Date: September 14, 2012 08:47PM
This is an interesting quote from the Tribune article:
"Nobody asked me to disavow my book or stop writing," Hanks said. "All they asked me about was my relationship to Jesus Christ."
Hanks’ rebaptism suggests a difference in LDS leadership from then to now, said Dan Wotherspoon, Sunstone’s editor from 2001 to 2008. In the past, many Mormon officials had a sense, he said, that the church must protect its members from "wolves among them."
In May 1993, apostle Boyd K. Packer said the church’s three greatest threats came from feminists, gays and intellectuals.
Today, LDS leaders seem more inclined to recognize, said Wotherspoon, now host of the "Mormon Matters" podcast, "that Zion is made up of people of all types."
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This is quite interesting. It suggests that the church is becoming more open-minded. Maybe in some places. She must be in Joanna Brooks' ward, along with these guys:
http://mormon.org/me/1gpphttp://mormon.org/me/1tjchttp://mormon.org/me/93XQ/AnnaIn every ward or branch I have experience with, life would be impossible for gays or feminists. The remaining members of my family are living very unauthentic, unhappy, faking-it lives. Maybe they should move to the High-Profile Big-Tent ward.
I just can't shake the feeling that the sword of Damocles is hanging over the members. After November, they will start to shorten the reins.