I used to like Harry Reid. I really did. Lately his rhetoric has been quite over the top, but I figured “well, he’s just pandering to his base. Bush does that all the time.”
But now, now he has threatened censorship over a “docudrama” (no one expects docudramas to be 100% historically accurate, so the claim that some events in the movie didn’t really happen don’t work, since that’s an expected part of the genre).
What is going on?
This article in the SL Tribune discusses M* at length re: the recent public affairs interview. BCC also gets a mention but note the comparison in number of comments!! ((((: Rosalynde is quoted at length for her usual insightfulness. Thanks to the posters on this thread who brought this to my attention. It’s also worth pointing out that T&S, a much larger group blog, was kind to refer its readers to our blog rather than discussing it there, where it would have probably gotten more than 1000 comments.
The president met with the prophet for the fourth time on Thursday. Please see this article for some interesting tidbits. I’m interested in two things:
The commentary on the public affairs interview on same-gender attraction is fascinating for me to read. Most of it has been respectful, although there have been several comments that have been over-emotional and downright rude. I have even had to delete a few comments for being extremely unpolite and irrelevant.
One of the key issues that comes up often is how people with same-gender attraction are treated in the Church.
I was baptized at the age of 8, like most kids in active member families. Though I don’t have a lot of memories from that young age, I am very happy to report I remember my baptism quite well.
I turned 8 on 2 July 1980. I was happy I wouldn’t have to wait long before I could get baptized – the stake baptism for that month was 5 July. For my 8th birthday, from my parents I got my own set of scriptures. For my birthday/baptism, from my ward/Primary I got a Book of Mormon (do you remember those medium blue ones with the gold angel Moroni on the cover? That was the one I got) and a picture of Jesus, which still hangs the wall of my bedroom at my parents’ house.