The first article misstates the Republican party platform, and the second article ignores the fact that socialism denies moral agency, and so is about as anti-Mormon as you can get - the end does not and cannot justify the means. Rather, the means dictate the end.
Greed, force and fraud are the natural-man results of political action. Taking greed, force and fraud out of the political scene should be what all good members of the Church should be about. They can do this as Republicans or Democrats or Greens or Blues or whatever. However, embracing a political dogma such as socialism which by it's very definition violates the Prime Directive of the Plan of Happiness (moral agency) is a non-starter. I am currently a Republican because I feel that I can better move things in the proper direction from that political stand. YMMV. Jon Steven Montgomery wrote: > The following URL is sure to excite some controversy. Apparently a fellow > mormon and U of U student, Daniel Thatcher, has written a piece in the > "Daily Utah Chronicle," which is highly critical of the lopsidedness which > exists in Utah politics. Among other things he mentions the Marlin Jensen > article, President Benson's statement that it is impossible to be a > democrat (Thatcher leaves out the "liberal" part of Benson's quote) and a > good member at the same time, a piece by liberal propagandist Paul Rolly of > the Salt Lake Tribune wherein Rolly claims that Republicans are further > from actual LDS positions that the democrats are, occasionally interspersed > with selective scriptures, etc. Here is the URL, what do you think? > http://www.dailyutahchronicle.com/news/325065.html?mkey=559711 > > Of course, I should mention that Thatcher also recently published a piece > in the same paper entitled, "Confessions of a Mormon Socialist." > http://www.dailyutahchronicle.com/news/292850.html ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// /// ZION LIST CHARTER: Please read it at /// /// http://www.zionsbest.com/charter.html /// ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: [email protected] EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?aaP9AU.bWix1n.YXJjaGl2 Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
