This past weekend, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints held its General Conference: An event in which church members receive direct guidance from the leadership of the church. Among the exhortations of the church leadership was this instruction:
The commandment to love one another surely includes love and respect across religious lines and also across racial, cultural, and economic lines. We challenge all youth to avoid bullying, insults, or language and practices that deliberately inflict pain on others. All of these violate the Savior’s command to love one another.
The Savior taught that contention is a tool of the devil.That surely teaches against some of the current language and practices of politics. Living with policy differences is essential to politics, but policy differences need not involve personal attacks that poison the process of government and punish participants. All of us should banish hateful communications and practice civility for differences of opinion.
Senate Democrat leader Harry Reid presents himself as a member of the LDS Church. Will he follow the instructions of his church leadership? Or will he continue to engage in demagogic attacks and obstructionist tactics?
I doubt Reid is a “good Mormon.” If he were, he wouldn’t have slept with McConnell’s former wife one night in the 1980s, precipitating a divorce.
Reid will claim to be deaf as an infirmity of old age and ignore this exhortation from the LDS Church.
In other words, I don’t expect that leopard to change his spots.
Maybe Reid went to the Pelosi/Kennedy school of special understanding of church doctrine according to political expediency.
Harry Reid is not a good Mormon, any more than Nancy Pelosi is a good Catholic.
Just like the Constitution, Dingy Harry has little use Christian teaching.
Having retired in Utah about 18 months ago, my opinion of LDS members has fallen a great deal.
Lying is a way of life for people who are visited by spies constantly.
Even little children are regularly interrogated in private about their own sexual practices.
Thus, being as how they are human, they all learn to lie very well by age twelve.
Many LDS I know lie recreationally, just for f the fun of it.
Reid lies all the time just like the best of them.
A few weeks ago the 50% of thestate that is LDS lied its way into being called thwe most happy of all 50 states.
Their road rage belies that conclusion!
Funny how all the Democrats who were hysterical about the possibility of a Mormon president have been perfectly calm about a Mormon Senate Majority Head.