Shout out to james_nicoll

[ksmith]

Since you're the official OSC linky guy, I wondered if you had seen this?

People for the American Way has discovered that in a long rambling article about the ills of gay marriage, reeking of conspiracy theories, Orson Scott Card, a Mormon leader of the religious right's top anti-gay marriage organization, National Organization for Marriage, advocated the criminalization of homosexuality, labeled the US government "our mortal enemy," talked about the "insane Constitution" dying, and then appeared to advocate the overthrow of the US government "by whatever means is made possible or necessary." The article was published in the influential Mormon Times, a publication owned by the Mormon church.

My LJ reading has been hit or miss for the last week or so, so this may be old news. It really is somewhat alarming.

Comments

[touchstone.livejournal.com]

I suppose I should have left off that second 'one'.... :)

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

Nah, it's like Republicans and cannibalism. Sure, most of the Democrats in Hinsdale County got eaten by Republicans but that was a long time ago and these days only an unrepresentative minority of Republicans are cannibals. I've often defended Republicans on this very point.

The mainstream of the Church of Latter Day Saints forbids polygamy and will excommunicate people for practicing it. They've done this long enough that most people who remember when polygamy was OK are long dead. The Mormons who do still practice it are heretics in the eyes of the original LDS hierarchy, like Lutherans are to Catholics.