And now for something a little different
Thanks to our regular reader James of Dayton, Ohio, for bringing to our attention this offbeat but, I think, funny view of the Mormon issue by GQ’s Walter Kirn. It’s not our usual fare here, but we hope you’ll consider it kind of like a Saturday Night Live-type interpretation of recent events.
Warning: There’s something in Kirn’s piece that is potentially offensive to just about everyone on every side of The Question. Be sure to put on your sense of humor before reading it. An excerpt:
The literal tarring and feathering of Mormons back when tar and feathers were closer to hand—before the job could be done using an iPhone—was often provoked by the church’s early progressivism. Joseph Smith and his followers’ opposition to slavery as well as their fondness for proto-communist living didn’t sit well with nineteenth-century rednecks from states such as Missouri and Illinois. After being driven west to Utah, threatened with invasion by the U.S. Army, and forced to renounce its experiment with polygamy, the church gave up its nonconformist ways, its bearded prophets took up razors, and Mormonism eventually emerged as an Eisenhower-era travesty of Wheaties-eating Caucasian conservatism. It’s hard to keep pace with white de-evolution, though, and now, in the person of Brother Mitt, the insufficiently Christian, Harvard-educated, French-speaking architect of America’s first socialistic public health care system, the sect’s most conspicuous adherent is, to many of his fellow Republicans, an egghead radical, a liberal mole.
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sewinglady on 06 Mar 2012 at 9:47 am #
This piece is pretty all-around snarky about everyone, including poking fun at some liberals. It is funny, and had some grains of truth in it, as well. The one jab about leaving others to handle the “culture wars” was a little too much of a liberal talking point for me. According to so many of these people, religion should stay away from things like gay marriage that threaten religious liberty. That is the one take away message. “Don’t you dare try to preserve your religious liberty over whatever latest liberal cause threatens it.”
Lowell Brown on 06 Mar 2012 at 10:39 am #
sewinglady, I hesitated a bit before posting that very snarky piece from GQ, but decided it pretty much covers the waterfront of the kinds of things we have been seeing on this topic over the last few years.