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Ruby author 'Matz' does television ad for his Mormon faith

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Interesting. From Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_chastity#Homosexuality

the church actively opposes the extension of the traditional definition of marriage to also include same-sex couples

Will he be hounded out now, like Brendan Eich?

There's no evidence Matz has supported a campaign to revoke same-sex marriage rights. Holding an opinion is fine. Trying to get everyone else to live by your opinion is a trickier and rather public matter.

(For example, I detest smoking, but no smoker can be pissed at me for that because I have no desire to curb smokers' rights. Likewise, folks who are against same-sex marriage can just avoid getting married to someone of the same sex if they want to avoid getting hassle for being intolerant.)

Quite interesting how these commercials have no real content about Mormonism, just uplifting music and passionate people. I guess they really got their 1920s marketing down..

There principle intent is to remove preconceived notions about who is mormon and what kind of backgrounds and interests they have. There are plenty of sources offered for those interested in our beliefs.

Preconceived notions aside, I just read the wikipedia on Joseph Smith and cannot help but laugh at how ridiculously obvious his misdirection is..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Smith

Jesus Christ's crucifixion is history. Joseph Smith's golden plates? Cookery. Missouri is the new Zion, the new Jerusalem? Cookery.

Superficial glances certainly make it easy to laugh and dismiss. But any sustained scrutiny actually makes it less funny and far more formidable than you'd imagine.

You can laugh at the concept of the plates, when he announced them that's what many did. But then there was the inconvenient fact that the young man then, in a period of less than 90 days, produced a book of over 500 pages with a multitude of books each with it's own internal consistency as well as overarching consistency through the whole book, then there's the fact that, through that book, a global faith was formed that just passed 15 million adherents world wide. How do you explain the book? And is that explanation a more valid explanation than the one given by Joseph?

I don't have an explanation but I am certainly more interested in the mystery with the claims you've laid out.

"He convinced a small number of people at the beginning, the witnesses -- not all of them, but he did. This man had an incredible memory. He made it up and dictated it nonstop. It's very long, the Book of Mormon. I mean, it's an incredible feat of the mind. Even if it is all made up, to do something like that is really extraordinary. And how literate was he? He knew the Bible very well, because it comes out in the language of the King James Bible, which I was raised on. But to be able to carry this through to its logical end, that's amazing. Really, it is. I mean, if it's a work of fiction, nobody has ever done anything like this before. And I think it is fiction, but he really carried it through, and my respect for him is unbounded."

Interesting take. Thank you for sharing your perspective.

http://www.pbs.org/mormons/interviews/coe.html

Just take a read through what an outsider, non-believer scholar thinks about it. One who's actually gotten into it. His take may surprise you. Additionally, not all of his points are accurate, and I obviously don't agree with his conclusion. But I think his take may give you pause in your 'Cookery' refrain.

Ah wow. Quite amazing irregardless of the truth value. I would consider Christ's crucifixion to be one of the most enigmatic and polarizing sacrifices. But memorization is still a bit aweing I suppose

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