Shared Items – 3 December 2008

3 December 2008 @ 10:05 pm | 2 comments

  • Local Search Helps in Online Missionary Work

  • Questions that answer themselves

  • Things We Ought to Bring Back: Speech Training

  • Not Getting It

    • “Gay marriage is politically unpopular for lots of reasons, and Mormons aren’t even in the top ten. If opposition to gay marriage is morally indistinguishable from Jim Crow racism, anti-Semitism and the like (as so many of you say), why on earth aren’t you screaming bloody murder at Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, Harry Reid and the other Democratic politicians who run the US governmemt? Surely, they matter more than a few Mormon donors. Why aren’t they bigots even though they hold the same fundamental position as Mormons? The rage at Mormons, as suggested in my column or as NR editorialized at length here, is unjustifiable save as part of a larger and very cynical political strategy. As a tactical matter, I understand why gay activists are doing it, but as a moral matter it’s disgusting, disingenuous and hypocritical.”

  • Video: Atheists continue to win friends, influence people

  • Planned Parenthood Offers $25 Gift Certificates for Abortions

  • Harry Reid’s ‘Smelly Tourists’ Comment: No Republican or Conservative Would Survive It

  • Video Tribute to Elder Joseph B. Wirthlin

  • The Oceanic 6 Hoax Documentary

  • Mormons Live the Longest

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    1. B’s avatar

      B on 4 December 2008 at 12:51 am

      I cannot believe you’ll post that crap from Christianity Today (Planned Parenthood – “Abortion Certificates”). If you actually read the entire, real press release, you would see that Christianity Today and many other conservative blogs are blowing this out of proportion.

    2. David H. Sundwall’s avatar

      David H. Sundwall on 4 December 2008 at 5:13 am

      B –

      Christianity Today’s politics blog really isn’t that conservative, at least not for my taste. But if you’re going to criticize sources, it only quotes an LA Times blog which is not exactly a source of hard-right news.

      More to the point, what’s out of proportion? Sure PP is very good at downplaying its abortion services and claiming it merely provides “women’s health services.” But when it generates over a billion dollars in revenue and provides over 20% of abortions in the U.S. today, such a crass marketing ploy during Christmas is offensive to a lot of people.