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hedgehog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-11-07 09:19 AM
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"The leadership is authoritarian, male, white and absolutely intolerant of dissent.”
Edited on Tue Dec-11-07 10:18 AM by hedgehog
That's Jon Kraukauer talking about the Mormon Church.




http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/09/opinion/09dowd.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

















What, who'd you think I was talking about?
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CBHagman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-12-07 12:57 AM
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1. My first thought was...
...the Bush administration.
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TexasProgresive Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-12-07 08:56 AM
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2. I smell a Rat
zinger!
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hedgehog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-12-07 01:17 PM
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3. My daughter claimed to me yesterday that no one refers to him
as Pope Benedict.
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theredpen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-12-07 01:18 PM
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4. OK... then what do they call him?
Pope Joe?
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hedgehog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-12-07 01:21 PM
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5. Apparently variations on his family name.
Seriously, after reading attacks on the attitudes toward women among the Latter Day Saints, I find myself ashamed of the Catholic Church.
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