Against the Mormon grain
Boston Globe religion writer Michael Paulson, who was in Utah last week to give a talk at Utah Valley University's Mormon Studies conference, took time out to write a "postcard" back to his readers about Mormons, the MoTabs, General Conference and the LDS welfare system. Speaking of UVU's annual conference:I was struck by the ideological diversity within a faith that often seems to lack much, despite its growth around the world. There was almost no ethnic diversity, but the crowd of students, faculty, and area residents who came to the conference included the publisher of a Mormon anarchist journal (who knew?) as well as a polygamy advocate, and a variety of bloggers and opinion makers who span the political spectrum.
He heard about the price paid by Mormon non-conformists. Boyd Petersen, who ran for the Utah Legislature as a Democrat (you can guess the outcome), says Mormon Democrats are not fully accepted into a politically conservative Mormon society.
Many of our fellow church members see us as apostates.
California legal scholar Morris Thurston, who opposed the church-endorsed Proposition 8 that bans gay marriage, says while some Mormons praised him, others "condemned me to hell for defying the prophet."
[The Prop 8 campaign] was very stressful for me, and the negativity took its emotional toll. It's difficult to be seen as a heretic."
5 Comments:
How is it that just because mormon's dont typically vote for democrats it means they dont accept them. Wouldnt that be like saying the gay community doesnt accept republicans since they usually vote democrat?
I vote both ways (mostly Democrat the last few years) and feel I am accepted just fine--in Orem no less. We tend to see in others what we want to see or expect to see. My Republican neighbors brought meals when we had our baby last year, the Elder's quorumn hauled off a tree I had cut down for me, and my older kids play with theirs.
AH more bullshit Glen....the "OH POOR IS ME" excuse is tired......grow a pair and if you need a new perspective....try a straight bar!
Although I'm very conservative politically, I don't have a problem at all with liberals--if they can articulate to me why they believe what they believe. As long as they have reasoning behind it instead of just "feelings", I have great respect for them.
The problem with most liberals that I've come in contact with is that they don't have any basis for believing what they do. The just believe it because that's what the TV has spoon-fed them through the years.
Some (not all) mormon democrats love to be victims. THey play it up so they can appear victims and to poison the well against repub mormons. Most of these victim dems spout off their political views at church, and feel bad that people don't agree with them
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