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Update: Mormon politicians defend overriding state for church

10/4/2016

Follow-up to yesterday’s post
Mormon politicians try, not successfully,
to make letting faith override judgment sound
like not letting faith override judgment

Leaked videos of secret meetings between Mormon politicians and Mormon church leaders have caused something of a ruckus. Not surprisingly, a host of Mormon politicians are rushing forth to defend allowing religious beliefs to inform their views.

But that’s not what people are howling about. They’re howling about letting religious leaders determine how politicians view issues and vote. When that happens, it crosses a dangerous line. It is, after all, how you get Iraq.

Most of the would-be defenses are inelegant Straw Man and False Dilemma arguments. Read them for yourself as reported by The Salt Lake Tribune by clicking here.

Revealed: Secret videos of top Mormon meetings

10/3/2016

A glimpse into Mormon machinations,
meddling, and thinking at the top

Don’t want to sit through the videos? Click here for
The Salt Lake Tribune’s quick-read summary

Yesterday, a group calling itself “Mormon Leaks” uploaded to YouTube videos of private meetings of the Mormon Church’s apostles, who with its First Presidency are its ruling body. The conversations most likely took place between 2008 and 2011.

Some disturbing highlights:

• A United States Senator grovels before the apostles, says his temple recommend means more to him than his duties as a senator, and that if you want to know his policy on social issues, consult the LDS Church’s Bishop’s handbook.

• Never mind the implications of actions by Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning; Dallin Oaks and other Mormon apostles want to know if they’re gay. As if that would explain sooooo much?

• Mormon Apostle Dallin Oaks suggests collusion between the media and the so-called “gay agenda.” Paranoid a little?

• Church leaders views world events through the lens of plans for church expansion.

ABOVE: Burning questions about the gay agenda and whether Chelsea Manning and Julian Assange are gay

Don’t want to sit through the videos? Click here for The Salt Lake Tribune’s quick-read summary

BELOW: A U.S. Senator grovels, makes clear that as a senator he works to serve the church more than to serve the country.