By the way, the bold LDS thing on your fLDS acronym? It’s getting old. Too clever by a half.
LDS and fLDS is one faith, two expressions; one faith, two affiliations.
Besides, you share your parents' last name, don't you? If your name was "Choose LDS" and your mom's name was "Day LDS," they would be close, right? (After all, the LDS gave birth to this "problem child" in the 1930s & named their "son," "Fundie").
Someone posted this thread today with some comments from Mormon Democrat Congressional leader Harry Reid: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2005973/posts
"The recent raid of one polygamist compound in Texas uncovered many of these problems," Reid wrote in his current letter. "But Texas may just be the tip of the iceberg."
My response on that thread was: (Duh, Mr. Mormon Representative...Ya think??? Now that...
...the LDS gave birth to this "problem child" in the 1930s & named their "son," "Fundie;"
...individual LDS leaders in key enforcement areas--except for some brief exceptions like 1944 & 1953 when they assisted law enforcement officials--looked the other way & failed to practice "tough love" re: this "problem child" for the past half-century;
..."problem child" has spawned yet other "problem grandchildren" in other states, provinces & colonies...
...Mr. Reid suddenly wakes up & concludes (to paraphrase), "You know, I'm thinking that Texas might just be an iceberg tip...that there could be something deeper here to the problem." Can you spell "intentional obliviousness"?)
As one ex-Mormon Web site framed it well: Fundamentalist Mormons are like the crazy aunt locked in the closet who won't die.
And the reality of it is that except for 3 or 4 features re: lifestyle management by "prophets," assessing fLDS is like hitting the rewind button of history to get a small glimpse at what parts of the 19th century LDS West looked like.
Is THIS better??
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