Gordon Monson: Latter-day Saints can stop wearing “righteousness as a badge of honor,” and everyone can display more tolerance, respect and decency.
Latter-day Saints can stop wearing “righteousness as a badge of honor,” and everyone can display more tolerance, respect and decency.
For those who don’t roll that way, this whole thing gets more applicable and practical, gritty at a ground level from here on out. When there is such a heavy presence — particularly when a tenet of that presence is the claim of possession of more truth than any and every other church on God’s green earth, a sanction of singular authority from on high — there can be … how do you say it? … um, a dividing effect.
It doesn’t matter if they cordially invite you over for a beautiful backyard barbecue or if they have a flock of pink plastic flamingos or a rusting ‘66 Plymouth Duster on blocks in their front yard. Doesn’t matter if they’re Catholic or Methodist or Jewish or Muslim or Something Else, if they’re Latter-day Saint or ex-LDS or Nothing At All.Our community divide
These, of course, are actions — in the view from this corner — of the narrow-minded and ignorant and arrogant, actions of the paranoid. Fanaticism and exclusivism and elitism gone wild. Sometimes, it just goes mild. But it still exists.I’ve spoken with and been with more than a few folks in our community outside the Latter-day Saint tradition who are harsh and hardheaded, as well, extreme in their own thinking. They lack tolerance.
We’re different from everyone else because we have the truth and we have the courage to live according to it. As for all you other folks, well, sorry. We’re weird, we’re righteously weird, you’re not. Sucks for you.
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