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Ruby author 'Matz' does television ad for his Mormon faith
- gaius 12y agoInteresting. From Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_chastity#Homosexuality http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_chastity#Homosexuality the church actively opposes the extension of the traditional definition of marriage to also include same-sex couples Will he be hounded out now, like Brendan Eich?
- petercooper 12y agoThere's no evidence Matz has supported a campaign to revoke same-sex marriage rights. Holding an opinion is fine. Trying to get everyone else to live by your opinion is a trickier and rather public matter. (For example, I detest smoking, but no smoker can be pissed at me for that because I have no desire to curb smokers' rights. Likewise, folks who are against same-sex marriage can just avoid getting married to someone of the same sex if they want to avoid getting hassle for being intolerant.)
- perlpimp 12y agoalso a t420 user, last line with the traditional style keyboard.
- goldenkey 12y agoQuite interesting how these commercials have no real content about Mormonism, just uplifting music and passionate people. I guess they really got their 1920s marketing down..
- VaedaStrike 12y agoThere principle intent is to remove preconceived notions about who is mormon and what kind of backgrounds and interests they have. There are plenty of sources offered for those interested in our beliefs.
- goldenkey 12y agoPreconceived notions aside, I just read the wikipedia on Joseph Smith and cannot help but laugh at how ridiculously obvious his misdirection is.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Smith http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Smith Jesus Christ's crucifixion is history. Joseph Smith's golden plates? Cookery. Missouri is the new Zion, the new Jerusalem? Cookery.
- VaedaStrike 12y agoSuperficial glances certainly make it easy to laugh and dismiss. But any sustained scrutiny actually makes it less funny and far more formidable than you'd imagine. You can laugh at the concept of the plates, when he announced them that's what many did. But then there was the inconvenient fact that the young man then, in a period of less than 90 days, produced a book of over 500 pages with a multitude of books each with it's own internal consistency as well as overarching consistency through the whole book, then there's the fact that, through that book, a global faith was formed that just passed 15 million adherents world wide. How do you explain the book? And is that explanation a more valid explanation than the one given by Joseph?
- goldenkey 12y agoI don't have an explanation but I am certainly more interested in the mystery with the claims you've laid out.
- VaedaStrike 12y agohttp://www.pbs.org/mormons/interviews/coe.html http://www.pbs.org/mormons/interviews/coe.html Just take a read through what an outsider, non-believer scholar thinks about it. One who's actually gotten into it. His take may surprise you. Additionally, not all of his points are accurate, and I obviously don't agree with his conclusion. But I think his take may give you pause in your 'Cookery' refrain.
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