On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 21:11:21 -0800, Montblack wrote
(in article ):

("Christopher Campbell wrote)
And above all, try taking a course on cultural tolerance.


I don't have a wife in this fight...
(Oh, come on. That's funny)

...but, it seems to me, not picking on you Mormie, people tend to turn the
volume up to 11 (immediately) when confronted. There is a distinct lack of
"proportionality"(?) going on these days - everywhere. "You diss'd my
shoes" - BANG!


You have not had people smearing your place of worship with human excrement,
breaking the windows and smashing thousands of dollars worth of AV equipment.
You have not had children come home crying from school because people told
them they had horns and tails. You have not received a failing grade in a
class because the teacher did not like 'Mormons.' You were not denied a PhD
and have your professor at Purdue tell you that you would never get a PhD or
any other graduate degree, no matter what you did, because of your religion.
You did not have your commanding officer in the military tell all of the
other men to stay away from you and tell you that he thought you were a
coward who would not fight because you were a 'Mormon.'

All of those things have happened to me or to my children.

One of my ancestors had her house burned down four times. She gave birth on a
sand bar in the middle of the Mississippi in the dead of winter with nothing
but a sheet to protect her because the governor of her state had ordered her
"exterminated," like an insect. Her brother was shot at Hahn's Mill, along
with 16 others, and 21 other unarmed men were wounded by mobs largely led by
so-called 'rationalists.'

Anther ancestor was beaten and forced to eat axle grease in the middle of
winter and left for dead. He never fully recovered and eventually did die. He
was saved only from immediate hanging by the leader of the mob, another
ancestor, incidentally.

No, Larry is a bigot. In my mind he is no different nor more enlightened than
any of these other people.

Bigoted? Hate?

How about silly and confused? That might show some tolerance for Larry's
...culture. I don't even want to know. g

http://www.exmormon.org/mormon/mormon013.htm
This is all new to me. This was the most "interesting" of the Google
returns.


Don't believe everything you read on the Internet. These people are just
strange. Some of them say things that make you wonder if they ever have had
any contact with the Church at all, like claiming to have been a "child
preacher," as one notable personality once did. The Church has no "child
preachers."


And to think, my entire elementary school had to eat fish sticks on Friday
because of us Catholic kids. Hehehe.


Actually, Iiked the fish sticks.

My plan for New Orleans - 2005:
Send in the National Guard?
Hell no. We're sending in the Mormons!
(It would halve cost 1/10th as much and gotten 10 times the results!)


Actually, they did. My own son recently was there on a volunteer work crew.


MontBlack and MontWhite :-) (-:
For the record: I am 100% in favor of polygamy ...and good luck to those
brave souls who try it.
(I call it: A Lawyer's Paradise)



No kidding. However, I could see certain advantages. More people bringing an
income into the household, more hands to take care of things, etc. My biggest
concern would be how long it would be before they figured out that they
didn't need me. :-)