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Date: March 13, 2013 08:09PM
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My (sarcastic) post:
“If we want your opinion, we’ll give it to you.”
Congratulations, sir. You nailed the title!
This is exactly the same totalitarian, oppressive message that the Mormon authorities deliver time and time again to their followers. Thank you so much for shining some light on their dictatorial treatment of “blue-collar” Mormons, whose opinions are rarely consulted regarding important issues like gay rights etc.
Rather, the message is always the same: we will give you your opinion and foster a culture that makes intellectual disagreement unspeakably evil (to say nothing of research into dissenting opinions etc.–see Elder Cook, who demands that those who research Mormonism on the Internet and encounter credible but opposing information must repent, as if we live in some kind of North Korean dystopia).
Thank you again for you insightful distillation of this issue into such a pithy, cutting, and revealing dictum. Keep ‘em coming!
His response:
It’s absurd to compare a voluntary religious association that’s freely entered and freely exited and that has and claims no coercive power to a totalitarian state such as North Korea, with its closed borders studded with minefields, its labor camps, and its mass starvation.
Your rhetoric has gotten the better of you, and make you look rather silly.
But it’s touching, in a pathetic sort of way, to read your expression of faith that blue-collar Mormons (or, for that matter, blue-collar anybody) would, on the whole, be more sympathetic to homosexuals than are the leaders of my church.