Who's addressing this from a "rights" angle?
Any church can invite who they want as their guest speaker. That, of course, is within their purview.
The larger question is: What reflection do they place upon the Christian community at-large by inviting those who produce materials for Deseret Inc. -- like Beck has -- which Deseret Inc. says on their very Web site promoting that product as a "missionary" tool to convert the very people Beck is speaking to?
And actually, this dove tails into a comment made by TheBattman in post #53: LIberty didn’t invite Beck to preach from the pulpit...
Beck's product I am referencing: the DVD An Unlikely Mormon: The Conversion Story of Glenn Beck (2008), which http://deseretbook.com (owned by the Mormon church) describes this DVD as a "presentation" where ..."Glenn Beck tells an audience of nearly 7,000 about his conversion to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints...Glenn bears his testimony about home teaching, tithing, and the transforming power of the Spirit....Glenn's story will strengthen the testimony of any Latter-day Saint. In addition, An Unlikely Mormon will be an ideal missionary tool.
You know, THeBattman, it's common when speakers come to special events for their entourage to set up a little booth off to the side offering the acquisition of their products. I wonder if Beck's people would have "An Unlikely Mormon" offered up for sale. (And if not, why not? Why keep this "tucked away?")
So it's Beck the Lds missionary, eh? (Only he sheds the white shirts, ties, backpacks & bicycles & just carts around his microphone)
You forget, TheBattman, that a person's "pulpit" -- like Beck's -- isn't always something he has to re-mount. One of his product pushers just has to pull out one of his previous pulpit engagements -- like "An Unlikely Mormon" -- and voila! -- Beck's portable pulpit!
Nice to know that Liberty is pushing people who produce "ideal Mormon missionary tools." (Meaning Liberty is a tool in and of itself)
I’ll bet you a cup of coffee that Glenn does ZERO to rpomote Mormonism or his conversion while doing this speaking gig. Glenn Beck loves America ... and he is doing something no one else including Rush Limbaugh seem able or willing to do: he’s educating the masses on the very foundational principles of this dying Republic, in the hope that it is not too late to pull our irons out of the socialist fire the obamacommie thuggery is building. I will be watching very closely the event. I’ll check back with you later on this issue.