In the public discussion of LDS temples, critics often take it for granted that limiting admission to Latter-day Saints in good standing (i.e., doing things “in secret”) supports a presumption that there must be something to hide. Conveniently, that presumption, once entertained, can’t be convincingly refuted without breaching the privacy of the temple. So how about a different example: see Politico’s article on JournoList.
What exactly are all these lefty journalists and fellow travelers talking about in secret? Obviously, it must be wrong. They must be discussing plans to undermine the United States or to suppress media reporting of stories unfavorable to their ideological views, right? Why else would it be so secret? If it is so secret, there must be something wrong with it, right?
JournoList does explain why so much lefty journalism (i.e., journalism) seems slightly unhinged: they aren’t trying to make their writing agree with right reasoning, common sense, or the real world — they’re more concerned with making it agree with each other.
So what do we make of the apparent fact that conservative bloggers and pundits implicitly endorse free and open discourse, while the transparency-lauding lefties do things behind closed doors?
posted March 18, 2009 at 5:49 pm
Dave, are you endorsing this kind of secrecy? If so, why the negative tone? If not, it doesn’t really help your temple case. It just says that you and the secrecy bent lefties are on opposite sides of the hypocrisy divide (assuming this is a group that insists on more transparency of the temple).
posted March 18, 2009 at 11:30 pm
Conservatives implicitly endorsing free and open discourse? I’m sure they exist but their not the most vocal nor the most influential.
Basically everybody is for secrecy if it supports their own team.
Ur connexiun iz tenu… ten… spurious at bezt.
posted March 19, 2009 at 11:15 am
The defensive crouch on display here is beneath you, Dave.
posted March 28, 2009 at 8:36 pm
Dave,
Your tagline says “A friendly place[...]“.
When you use ‘lefty’ as a pejorative and ‘fellow traveler’ (didn’t that one go the way of fins on cars?)archaisms, you give those of us voted for Al Gore or even may have tailored shirts in our closets the impression that this place is ‘friendly’ to those who comply with the Glenn Beck code of ideological purity. Others, not so much. BTW, the CoJCoLDS has gotta take a position on that boy. Speaking as (an ex) cradle Catholic, Glenn is doing Mormonism all the good that Father Coughlin did for Catholicism. (Just sayin’).
Finally, I followed Debi’s YouTube link. I don’t know which took more courage of that heroic woman; being seen as supporting marriage equality or being seen in public with lefties! With regard to my YouTube link, you would think forty years on from the time this sketch first appeared on American television, we might have developed a little more toleration on gender-role issues.
Que sera, sera.