So a grade four teacher apparently told her students that early Mormon leaders had been jailed. When one of the students asked if they were criminals, she reportedly replied that some people thought they were. As a result, at least one good Utah Mormon demanded a public apology.
Ah, fundamentalist Mormonism at its best.
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Kim, you could also try to give the "Utah Mormon" the benefit of the doubt. What I mean by that is that you seem to be taking at face value what the fourth-grade teacher claimed she said: "she reportedly replied that some people thought they [JS and pals] were [criminals]." The whole story sounds absurd if that is really what the teacher said. What if, however, the teacher really said "yes, they were criminals" and then, after the hype ensued, self-edited her statement to make the complainers look ridiculous (and to exonerate herself from the appearance of bigotry/violation of the First Amendment in forcing her view [the Church is a fraud and JS was a criminal] on a captive audience of fourth-graders)? It's only human nature to revise what one really said once it gets one in trouble, isn't it?
Precisely why I used the words 'apparently' and 'reportedly'.
I am curious as to why you put Utah Mormon in quotations in your reply.
Because "Utah Mormon" is used in LDS circles as a pejorative term to mean anything that the speaker dislikes about LDS culture, whether that be too goody-goody/fundamentalist (as you used it and most of the Bloggernacle uses it) or the opposite, meaning members who are too lazy and complacent with the world and religion and who don't take or live their religion seriously, which is how the term was used among the members where I grew up in Dallas.
"Because 'Utah Mormon' is used in LDS circles as a pejorative term to mean...fundamentalist (as you used it..."
I did not use it in this context. I used it to describe a Mormon who lives in Utah. The person who demanded the apology is a Mormon and lives in Utah. I used the term in its strictest sense.
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