moksha wrote:However, although this was cited as a reason for disciplinary action, it should be noted that the link that David provided another member was written by the Foundation for Apologetic Information and Research (FAIR). The person who identified David Twede and forwarded David's writing to Church headquarters was Scott Gordon, president of FAIR.
Didn't realize the writings at FAIR were so subversive as to constitute heresy, but it does seem like a cosmic irony that this heresy would be pointed out by the President of FAIR. What a devilish form of entrapment.
Yes, it was ironic. When FAIR attacked Twede in order to paint MormonThink as just another angry anti-mormon site, they defamed him by trying to argue that the only reason he was being disciplined was because he was purposely leading members away from the church. However, before the disciplinary court was even called, Twede had already posted exactly what he was doing in his blog. And when he learned that it was Scott Gordon that had sent his information to SLC leader (who presumably activated his local leaders), Twede called out Gordon as a hipocrit.
On his blog of 22 Sept, he wrote:
after having some sleep, and now that the NY Times article came out, I read statements by Scott Gordon, a Mormon apologist, that indicated he was behind turning me into the church authorities. One of his statements has resolved me back to my original gut feeling--that this is probably in part about the LDS church squelching my political speech. The reason is a little complex. Let me start with his particular quote from the NY Times:
“ It has nothing to do with Romney,” Mr. Gordon said. “I know members very high up in the church who are voting for Obama.”
“ It’s about him posting on a blog that he was actively in there trying to subvert people’s beliefs in the L.D.S. church,” Mr. Gordon said... "
If you've read my [15 Sept] "The Mysteries of the Gospel" blog, you will know that the only case Gordon had against me was that I wrote about emailing with "Pat" who I indicated was a questioning member. I wrote:
" I decided to send Pat two links: The first link to Mormon information Graphics on the Book of Abraham, and a second one to FAIR’s explanation of one of the facsimiles. "
Links included in this were:
http://www.mormoninfographics.com/searc ... /Facsimile
http://en.fairmormon.org/Book_of_Abraha ... acsimile_3
The latter is directly from Scott Gordon's own group, FAIR. In other words, I gave someone information that FAIR wrote. I find it extremely unlikely that this is what got the LDS Salt Lake leaders' panties in a bunch. If that were true, Scott Gordon would also be called in for disciplinary court.
(see http://mormonthinkblog2012.blogspot.com ... -worn.html )
He didn't even send a link to mormonthink at all. It's ironic that they came after him, and he was intentionally avoiding sending members of his own ward to the mormonthink website. Yet, that is what FAIR (Gordon) claims it was about.
