I always loved the Mormon's monthly Fast and Testimony Meetings. Filled with the Holy Ghost, all the sisters would get up and cry and the brethren would vie for the honor of being deemed the most inarticulate. But there were always tales of rebellious brethren who rose up and spoke compellingly from the heart. Chino Blanco brings us a video of one of these rouge brothers. Watch as the Bishop cuts off his mic, and the Elders drag his thinking ass out of the chapel.
One of my favorite Fast and Testimony meetings occurred a couple months after me and my friend, LaVar Hunsaker*, stole all his dad's condoms. Sister Hunsaker gave a very moving testimony, that Sunday morning. She tearfully thanked the Lord for allowing her to become pregnant, once again, long after she had given up believing that she'd ever be blessed with another child.
*Names changed to protect the fecund.
That old "Don't pray in my school and I won't think in your church" pact seems to be breaking down.
ReplyDeleteThoreau said "Under a government which imprisons unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison," so maybe under a church that discriminates unjustly, the true place for a godly man is outside the temple.
ReplyDeleteThey didn't drag him out, and obviously it was Onan and Conan who turned off the mike.
ReplyDeleteMakes you wonder if Bill O'Reilly is Mormon.