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seauursol.bsky.social @seauursol.bsky.social

Call email the Mormon Church of Utah. Ask if they are proud of Mike Lee???? Ask is this the person you become when embrace the Mormon Faith??????

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jun 18, 2025, 6:46 pm • 34 5

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Tom @alttag.bsky.social

Just like it’s useful to call the Vatican about JD Vance? Maybe it will get better if you speak to the manager’s manager.

jun 18, 2025, 7:42 pm • 8 0 • view
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PeaceandCalm @calmate.bsky.social

Absolutely. Did you read the latest about the first American bishop who has stated that he wants priests, etc., to attend immigration hearings with immigrants? Obviously it worked.

jun 18, 2025, 11:14 pm • 0 0 • view
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Lara58 @autumn1990.bsky.social

I’m pretty sure the Vatican has no use for Vance.

jun 18, 2025, 8:31 pm • 0 0 • view
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WBF Morning Star @wbfmorningstar.bsky.social

You do know that the Pope pretty much shunned him while he was there and delegated someone to read him a homilly?

jun 18, 2025, 11:29 pm • 0 0 • view
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Tom @alttag.bsky.social

Indeed, and it’s rather the point. It’s about the same reception I’d expect Mike Lee to receive if he attempted to call on the Mormon church’s headquarters in SLC.

jun 18, 2025, 11:31 pm • 1 0 • view
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Te-ah-tim-eh @te-ah-time-eh.bsky.social

The Mormon church has a LOT of power in Utah. It’s basically a theocracy.

jun 18, 2025, 7:59 pm • 21 0 • view
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Tom @alttag.bsky.social

As a former state elected official in Utah:

jun 18, 2025, 8:02 pm • 5 0 • view
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Te-ah-tim-eh @te-ah-time-eh.bsky.social

I’m I being inaccurate? It’s how it’s been described to me by people who have lived there.

jun 18, 2025, 9:49 pm • 1 0 • view
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Tom @alttag.bsky.social

As a prominent land owner in downtown SLC they can certainly throw their weight around when they want something (a closed road, a downtown walking easement), but they tried very hard to avoid even the appearance of meddling in state politics. Many politicians are/were members, in both parties.

jun 18, 2025, 10:21 pm • 2 0 • view
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Tom @alttag.bsky.social

So “theocracy”? No, not in any meaning of the word that approaches its actual meaning.

jun 18, 2025, 10:22 pm • 2 0 • view
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Te-ah-tim-eh @te-ah-time-eh.bsky.social

That’s interesting, I was just reading that there’s a Mormon supermajority (86%) in Utah’s congress and LDS members make up 60% of the population there. That doesn’t affect policy at all?

jun 19, 2025, 12:08 am • 2 0 • view
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Tom @alttag.bsky.social

“Majority” and “theocracy” are different things.

jun 19, 2025, 12:13 am • 1 0 • view
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Te-ah-tim-eh @te-ah-time-eh.bsky.social

www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

jun 19, 2025, 12:20 am • 0 0 • view
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Te-ah-tim-eh @te-ah-time-eh.bsky.social

So the supermajority doesn’t affect policy at all?

jun 19, 2025, 12:19 am • 0 0 • view
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Tom @alttag.bsky.social

You’re the one that said it was a theocracy. If you’ve changed your mind and believe it’s instead tyranny of the majority, great, but that’s a different argument.

jun 19, 2025, 12:23 am • 0 0 • view
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madisonfly.bsky.social @madisonfly.bsky.social

They should excommunicate him but they are all about the 💰so they’re okay with his sick comments.

jun 19, 2025, 1:48 am • 0 0 • view
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The Squire of Gothos @revmags.bsky.social

jun 19, 2025, 3:09 am • 0 0 • view