Posted on 10/25/2009 12:06:31 PM PDT by Colofornian
I think the question about this being a Mormon bashing thread was based partially on the referenced remarks, but more likely because of the author, Colorfornian. He/she lives for the opportunity to post negative comments about Mormons. Poor thing.
are you asking me this question? i made no such assumption...
What are each of you going to do next? Throw darts @ the SL Trib & the Odgen Herald-Examiner & KSL.com & MidUtahRadio.com for posting articles & news segments on this epidemic over the past 3 months? Are you going to tell them to just "shut their media traps" 'cause you're more concerned about Utah PR than these students?
again i ask, is your question and are your comments geared toward me? if so, why? i had not responded to anything you had posted...
(OK, do I really need to give you such a basic, basic language arts lesson? Your comment above has a question mark. Whereas, your response to me is based upon how I responded to H.B. in post #17 -- and if you relook at the H.B. excerpt I was responding to in post #17 -- there is no H.B. question mark, now is there.)
Here, I'll make it easy for you: 20,000 licensed educators, 208 revoked for sexual misconduct over 17 years. That's a pretty small percentage, a fraction of one percent. Not exactly an epidemic.
I don't see a question mark in there. Do you?
Therefore, he was going beyond raising a Q. He was making claims that defended the situation as nothing worth getting too excited about. These were off-base claims.
You're right. I apologize. I originally was including you just to copy you...and I lumped you in.
1. I was only talking about this article. He taught at in a Mormon classroom. He was Mormon. I haven’t assumed that the other teachers doing this were Mormon, just the one in this article.
2. I’m sorry about not pinging you. Apparently I missed the online etiquette workshop when I signed up for the forum. The assumption that the originator of a short thread would read the comments was a stretch too far.
I wasn’t responding to you, why would I ping you? I’m really not clear on that.
3. I said that the story was news. It was. That’s fine. Post it. Just don’t try to link a felony to somebody who is not involved.
Did you ping Mitt Romney, btw? You did mention his name in your post.
4. I responded to the general discussion of in the thread. I looked at your posting history and reported my observation. It is obvious from your comments that you post these types of articles in an attempt to smear anything and anyone related to Mormons and to push your strange conspiracies. Look at your posts objectively, and be honest with yourself. You can say you are just posting the news, but when your comments are so outlandishly biased, you become as transparent as the rest of the MSM so hated on this forum.
Obviously, there will never be any love lost between the two of us after this. I, like another poster, find it pathetic that your life is so enveloped in trashing a population who would give you 85% of their votes if you were their conservative candidate.
Maybe you really are concerned for their souls. If so, are you giving them the same Christlike compassion that you demand from me?
(Give me his FR moniker...Golly, I just didn't know he was a FReeper! :) )
You can say you are just posting the news, but when your comments are so...
You know, the thread you're mentioning at the time you commented had no posts from me as of yet.
Christlike compassion that you demand from me?
Jesus' ethic was simple: Love your neighbor. Love the Lord your God with all your heart, mind, soul and strength. Beyond that, his life exhibited a "Comfort the afflicted" AND, based upon his approach to the religious legalists of the day, afflict the comfortable.
Otherwise, SOME of what you say about me could also be hurled at Jesus for His approach to the Pharisees about their beliefs, etc.
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