Wednesday, November 19, 2008

the laugh test

Dan Savage continues to be a leading advocate for the civil rights of gay people - on TV, and particularly on the Slog. This post from today is a good example, but what I like most about it is this sentence:
"I don't think the Mormon church has much to fear from scrutiny and ridicule—the Catholic Church has been subject to both for centuries and they're still electing popes, baptizing infants, and raping tweens—but the Mormon church has worked to avoid scrutiny because it knows, deep down, that it was founded by a fraud and that the tenets of its faith don't pass the laugh test."
Amen.