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Funny as in frightening?
Obviously not just about everybody, but holding a leadership position doesn’t mean somebody is more devout than the people who never get a leadership position. At least, as long as we’re talking about active churchgoing Mormons here.
Maybe I’m just not seeing it.
“A great natural birth control method if I ever saw one,” is a comment on his social policies?
What social policy does it comment upon, specifically? What is the comment?
Yes, you do. Stop playing dumb.
It is sometime offered separately but was originally a part of Roughing It. I could give you a TL:DR. but I shrink from blasphemy.
There is no primary source on the “two masters” quote, and it may be apocryphal. Twain became so widely known as an American wit, people began ascribing quotes to him that he never said. For instance, “Wagner’s music is better than it sounds”. Great line, but authored by Edgar Nye (who?). That happened a lot, he would quote something he admired as a tribute to the author, credit the author, and then people would start saying that it was his. And, of course, annoying the very people who was trying to help.
Now, that’s not fair! If a man is willing to admit his intellectual failings, you are obliged to accept his expert opinion!
I think I’ve also seen it attributed to Lincoln. But Twain is more plausible.
Be fair. These hats are ridiculous.
Incidentally, if Romney is elected, say goodbye to this…
:mad: HH has no business going out in public dressed like that with no censer or thurible! How’s anybody supposed to pull off the line, “Hey, somebody tell the drag queen his handbag’s on fire!”?!
“Severely Mormon”, perhaps?
No. I see a snide comment.
If it had simply been a comment on his social policies, it would have stopped with the observation that he wears his Temple undergarments at all times. There is no additional social policy invoked by calling them “birth control,” is there?
Actually, they sound more like cheap shots to me. Admittedly I trust that Rove would have a field day with all of this if the shoe were on the other foot.
Right. And this board’s population would happily opine that Rove was a disgusting slimeball for doing it.
But since the target here is Mormons, which all enlightened, correctly thinking people who are all up to speed on the best opinions to have, realize that Mormons Are Bad, it’s perfectly OK.
The key is knowing who the Enlightened People hate, you see.
Well? The Mormons themselves proved Mormons Are Bad in California, not too long ago, Shirley you remember.
It isn’t that Mormons are bad.
In fact every single one of them that I have had the pleasure to meet have been nice people.
It is the cognitive dissonance required to believe in their faith and yet interact with the real world that disturbs me.
And I think it disturbs many folks who aren’t necessarily anti-religious.
Doesn’t every religion look crazy to every other?
For the rest, I remember Robert Anton Wilson once wrote that in the Republic of Ireland, where everybody has the True Faith, people keep a clear distinction in mind between “Sunday truth” and the more ordinary kind of truth you use when buying or selling potatoes.
This is an Emergency Level 99 Liberal Hypocrisy Alert. Citizens are advised to assemble in an orderly fashion at their local Emergency Liberal Hypocrisy Awareness Centers. Participants are advised that while shrieks of horror and dismay are encouraged, rending of garments is not advised, as this may lead to wardrobe malfunctions and the needless display of naughty bits..
I don’t know about Mormons, but as speaking as someone heavily involved in the leadership of the Episcopal church I can offer a hearty, amen.
A noble sentiment, and in most cases I would agree. However, Romney is a devout member of a cult that openly represses and subjugates women, that routinely excludes minorities, and condemns and rejects gay rights. If he had not been a moderate governor of a liberal state, his adherence to a cultish religion that denies women’s rights and that displays bigotry in most of its forms, would and should raise serious questions about his ability to serve in the best interests of all Americans.