[Colofornian]

I don’t believe that Reid is regarded as such. As someone else pointed out, Reid does “Home Teaching” in DC, so you have to believe he is regarded as a member in good standing....Nevertheless, on rare occasion, someone shows up at our door to “see how we are doing.” It’s been more than a year since anyone stopped by, but maybe it’s because I told them the last time they were here, that as long as Reid as a member, they are not welcome to call. Their response was that the vast majority of “local Mormons” who do attend church could not understand why the church had not excommunicated Reid...I see nearly all organized religions in pretty much the same light. When was the last time a Rabbi or a Priest ( or fill in the blank for your favorite flavor of clergy) came out and castigated or called for excommunication of the likes of Nancy Pelosi, or one of the large numbers of Jews who are actively engaged in helping Obola?

Thank you for reinforcing my post #15.

As post #43 shows, it's not simply that the Mormon church hasn't excommunicated Reid.

You mention Pelosi, but imagine the Roman Catholic church making her a "visiting home teacher" about the Catholic church. (That's more tantamount to what the Mormon church does in sanctioning Reid)

And, of course, as mentioned, BYU invited Reid to speak. Imagine a Roman Catholic inviting a rabid pro-abortion liberal pol to speak on campus...oh, wait...Notre Dame did do that with inviting Obama on campus, didn't it?

Well, in both cases you've got the powers that be going beyond simply not excommunicating a pol.

What you have is open and specific sanction. That's a bridge too far -- and one I don't see you acknowledging.

[vette6387]

“What you have is open and specific sanction. That’s a bridge too far — and one I don’t see you acknowledging.”

I am not quite sure what you think I am failing to acknowledge? To my knowledge, the Catholic church employs no lay clergy. So I don’t see where Nancy Pelosi could ( should she so desire ) to have any role of that sort. Both she and Reid should have been excommunicated long, long ago for making public statements and taking actions that are in complete opposition to their respective church’s teachings. But here we are with the so-called “church leadership” hiding under their pulpits, afraid to do what their dogma requires of them. BTW, when Reid spoke at BYU, I called them to express my displeasure. They not so nicely told me to FO! Churches want to curry favor with politicians, so the allow these miscreants to flaunt church teachings whereas you or I would be gone in a heartbeat,
I have family in Nevada. Nevada was originally settled by the Mormons and there are a ton of them there. Las Vegas itself was originally a Mormon Settlement when the Mormons had this grand plan for The State of Deseret which would have encompassed half again as much territory as they got when Utah became a state. Also, FWIW, Reid had his college education paid for by the Mormon Church.