meyotch comments on Jeopardy!'s Ken Jennings won't support Gavin Newsom for president due to trans kids stance

[–] meyotch@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Now repudiate your stupid religion, Ken.

Imagine if a man with that kind of raw brainpower didn’t spend so much of it maintaining the cognitive dissonance of being a ‘liberal Mormon’.

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[+] mienshao@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (1 child)

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[–] meyotch@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 year ago

No, I won’t stop.

He is responsible for the views of the group he is a member of, especially on this issue.

Saying nice things now and then does not relieve him of moral culpability remaining a member of a group that has actively and knowingly driven queer and trans members to suicide.

It’s like a member of the Nazi party meekly proclaiming “Not all Jews are bad guys”.

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[–] TheRealKuni@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Brandon Sanderson, beloved author and Ken Jennings’s college roommate, has spoken on this.

He feels he can do more good by being a voice of progressiveness within the Mormon church than by leaving it. I can respect that.

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[+] AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 child)

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[–] TheRealKuni@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago

I respect people trying to make a regressive organization less regressive. If they go around publicly decrying the group, that group is more likely to simply reject them than to consider what they’re saying.