Ralph explains it all
What is Salt Lake City Mayor Ralph Becker up to? He has an apple-polishing letter in The Tribune defending the LDS church's annual pre-session meetings with House and Senate legislative leaders. The missive seems to come in support of a guest column written by LDS spokesman Otterson that chastised columnist Rebecca Walsh and letter writers for questioning the Legislature's yearly festival of church-and-state confusion.Ralph finds it necessary to cop to having regularly met with the church as a Democratic House member, but explains:
It is understandable that people would be suspicious of an institution as powerful in our state as the LDS Church. While I have not always been in agreement with LDS Church positions, in my experience, in secular matters the LDS Church has carefully considered the opinions and effects of their opinions on others having different perspectives.What's up — is the city contemplating selling another section of Main Street to the church?
6 Comments:
Glen, is it so hard to see that Mayor Becker is just being reasonable based on his own experience?
Just because you and Walsh hate Mormons doesn't mean every liberal foams at the mouth to take a pot shot at them, k?
I don't think they are "pot shots"
Its the truth. There is supposed to be a separation of church and state and there isn't. Everyone knows it but the mormons think they are better than everyone else and have to control everything. It's the we are far superior than you attitude that makes people dislike them.
Now before the lds crazy's jump down my throat... I am lds myself and think it is totally wrong the LDS church interferes in government! I think we should worry more about the people we let get away with a lot because we prefer to have them take it up with the Bishop before calling the cops.
Where's this supposed separation of church and state coming from? The constitution just says that the state shouldn't interfere with the church, not the other way around.
And heaven forbid that an organization that is affected by legislative action should actually have a voice in how it's treated. Are you advocating that no entity, church, business, or personal, should have a voice in government?
Why is it that church leaders meeting with lawmakers is considered any differently than corporations or private citizens meeting with lawmakers? Just because their views don't agree with yours?
The issue isn't that the LDS church shouldn't be heard by legislators, it's that the Church is so powerful that they have an effective veto on any legislation they disagree with. That's the problem.
Tax the Mormon Church's $54 Billion annual tithe base at a flat corporate rate.
Tax the Mormon Church and the Mormon Church will pull its humantarian support for the gentile community like Glen Warchol!
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