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By: Telling The Story – Part IV – ‘Jokers To The Right’ | Article VI Blog | John Schroeder

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:33:17 +0000

[...] friends” with Mormons for a long time, dating to before the last election cycle and they have continued since. And they have usually resulted in Dobson getting beaten up by his listeners/constituency/audience [...]

By: anna

anna — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 05:43:18 +0000

Thanks, John, for your right-headedness on this issue.

By: Doug King

Doug King — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 17:50:36 +0000

Oops. The last sentence of the second paragraph should read, “…a rational person would wonder whether I was insecure about my onw faith or perhaps even bigoted.”

By: Doug King

Doug King — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 17:48:28 +0000

Eto – your question is probably intended to be rhetorical, but some readers might misinterpret the lack of response. Speaking for myself I answer a resounding Yes! “If there is anything virtuous, lovely, or of good report or praiseworthy, we seek after these things.” (Article of Faith 13; compare Phil 4:8).

However, I don’t think blacklisting “The Christmas Sweater” even approaches your question about accepting “more truth.” The Christian News Network communication said nothing about Beck’s program teaching heretical Mormon doctrine but only warned that Beck was a Mormon heretic. This would be akin to my loving the Mormon Tabernacle Choir version of “Amazing Grace” but boycotting the Tramaine Hawkins version for fear of being somehow harmed by her religion. Since the tune and lyrics are the same, a rational person would whether I was insecure about my own faith or perhaps even bigoted.

This world needs every drop of goodness it can get, no matter who provides it. (I recommend Tramaine Hawkins, by the way.)

By: eto

eto — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 00:09:28 +0000

A question for all Mormons and Evangelicals and Catholics and Jews:

Is there any source from which you would be unwilling to accept more truth?

By: Doug King

Doug King — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 20:01:25 +0000

It was wrong for the Mormon director of the California Musical Theatre to lose his job over support for Prop 8, and it is equally wrong for Focus on the Family or the Christian News Network to blacklist Beck because he is Mormon.

The next time I hear a radio spot for Focus on the Family, maybe I should quickly change the channel lest I become somehow corrupted by listening to someone that I do not consider 100% religiously correct. Never mind Dr. Dobson often makes sense and I could benefit from listening to him. After all, the issue, as framed by the religious zealots on the right, is not what people say but who says it. (Didn’t the apostle Paul have something to say about “zeal without knowledge?”)

Merry Christmas! Good will towards Men! …except for Mormons like Eckern and Beck and Romney and Huntsman and …. (and me) of course. We apparently don’t deserve good will.

Thanks, John, for your right-headedness on this issue.