Paul Mero: 'I, for one faithful Saint, am sick of my people doing the wrong things for the wrong reasons.'
The angel Moroni statue atop the Salt Lake Temple is silhouetted against a cloud-covered sky, at Temple Square in Salt Lake City on Feb. 6, 2013.Fear-based decision-making leads to bad decisions. Every time. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints – my church – just provided back-to-back examples of bad decisions based upon fear.
The RFMA was dead in the Unites States Senate – dead on arrival – without the help of a few conservative Republicans. Unbelievably, Sen. Mitt Romney came to its rescue. Why? Does Romney support same-sex marriage? No. So why support legislation that was DOA? Why would Romney rescue a same-sex marriage bill? Even more unintelligible, why would the LDS Church help?
The second example of fear-based decision-making by the LDS Church is Ensign Peak Advisors. Does any faithful Latter-day Saint think Jesus Christ gives a tinker’s damn about a savings account? No, but mere mortals do, evidently. We live in a world driven by money. Money buys missions, schools, temples and, apparently, very bad attorneys and account managers.
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