Re: Hinckley gone, and I'm not rejoicing

On Jan 30, 10:29 am, Father of Peace <srm2...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> A decade ago I was a tremendous critic of prophet Hinckley for what I
> perceived as his abandonment of mormonism in order to appease the
> press and garner better media coverage for the church. A newspaper
> article I read about him today even mentions my criticism of his
> rhetoric about plural marriage.
>
> I thought I would rejoice at his demise, but these days I simply don't
> care one way or the other about mormonism or it's leaders.
>
> The only bother that mormism is to me these days is that the Mormons
> of Utah are using the ballot box in order to impose their religious
> ideals upon me. I believe that mormonism teaches that it is wrong to
> use government/violence in order to coerce the actions of peaceable
> non-believers. I believe that in general mormons are more than willing
> to deny the precepts of their faith in order to pass laws to coerce
> non-believers. It doesn't matter to me if every other religious body
> in the world is also wrong on this topic. I think that mormons aught
> to know better and to behave better.
>
> And for those glorious mormons out there that truly believe in
> allowing other people the freedom to wor****p how, where, or what we
> may, I congratulate you for every time you vote to increase the
> freedom of non-believers, especially when that freedom means we will
> be sinning. I believe that violence inherent in government
> prohibitions is a greater evil than any peaceful sin someone might
> commit.
>
> I loved prophet Hinckley's attempts to get the church to treat non-
> members better. I'm sad they were not heeded where it really matters.
> As far as I can tell, mormonism aught to create the freest government
> in the world, but in practice it seems to me that, non-believers are
> heavily oppressed in mormon controlled areas.
>
> Love,
> Absalom

I just had a thought concerning the statement that "using the ballot
box in order to impose their religious
 ideals".  Is that not what we all do when we vote? We vote based on a
number of factors, ***, race, income status, and yes religious belief
system. I would think that it would make sense that Mormons for
example would sup****t a anti smoking measure on a ballot more so than
say a Baptist. Or Mormons would sup****t anti drinking measures more
than Catholics. This is perfectly normal. We vote and should vote for
measures and candidates that sup****t our belief systems.

Just face it, there are more Mormons in Utah than non-Mormons. So
things that sup****t the belief system of a Mormon would be more
sup****ted in Utah.  UNtil there are more non Mormons this is not going
to change.

John