It’s a real David vs Goliath story. The church doesn’t even have a trillion dollars yet.
How many billion dollar churches have to get kicked around before we start protecting their rights?
Exactly. It’s not a fair fight at all.
How dare this town deny the Church. Cody should at least wait until the rainy day fund reaches a trillion dollars and wait until the Church can afford some lawyers.
"I'm on paid sabbatical from BYU in exchange for my promise to use this time to finish two books."
He's addicted to fighting people online. Switching furiously between accounts.
It's kind of sad.
There was recently a conversation between two people who weren't Daniel Peterson on SeN, and Daniel kept responding to it as if he was included. He was not.
The Mormons of Cody have come out in force, to vandalize the signs of town residents who are expressing their constitutionally protected opinion to protest the temple:
The Mormons of Cody have come out in force, to vandalize the signs of town residents who are expressing their constitutionally protected opinion to protest the temple:
I especially loved the reported way that the local bishop, Todd Christiansen, framed what he saw as the crux of the controversy. According to him, the city enforcing this building code is the same as keeping Black (ahem, "colored") children out of public schools or forcing Jews to live in ghettos.
Todd Christensen, a bishop of a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ward in Cody, said the message clearly is anti-church, not about building codes.
“I’m pretty sure when they say, ‘not in my neighborhood,’ the same argument has also been extended to ‘not in my town’ and in some instances ‘not in my county,’” he said. “At some point you have to put your foot down and say that’s not right.”
He believes it no different than if someone was trying to argue against Black children being allowed to attend school in their area or members of other religions from being allowed to live somewhere.
“That’s like saying, ‘It’s not about race, but I just don’t want colored kids to go to our school.’ ‘We like Jews but they should just go somewhere else,’” he said.
It's just Mormon karma. For decades and decades, Mormons in community after community have closed ranks socially and shunned non-Mormons, cloistering themselves off from the non-Mormon neighbors. There have been non-Mormon building projects along the Wasatch Front that Mormons have pushed back on. It's just a matter of Mormon karma coming back to haunt the LDS in Cody WY.
Apologists try to shill an explanation to questioning members as though science and reason really explain and buttress their professed faith. It [sic] does not. By definition, faith is the antithesis of science and reason. Apologetics is a further deception by faith peddlers to keep power and influence.
They could build it in Powell which is the middle of the three towns of the area (Lovell already has a huge ass stake building If I recall correctly) but why do something convenient for everyone when they can build an ugly ass temple on prime real estate in a famous town?
