MK forum

The link to this article has already been posted, but I am re-posting it in a new thread, with the expectation that there will be additional media coverage this year.

http://prospect.org/article/next-christ ... se-scandal

Several people with an NTM history were interviewed for this very thorough, well-researched article.

It is excellent.

The very wise Mrs Bemused and I discussed BJU and it's influence at some length. Then Mrs Bemused amazed me with a revelation that two of her cousins had gone to BJU.
I sat more upright than a pious Triber taking the straight and narrow path to them Pearly Gates, to hear this revelation.

Yes she reassured me, they are good Mormons and went to the Mormon University.

This has caused a real dilemma for me, because the brilliant Mrs Bemused is very rarely wrong and it was with fear and trepidation that I mentioned that Brigham Young University might possibly be the establishment she was thinking of.

Fortunately we are still speaking to each other and she conceded that on this occasion she had to defer to the limited wisdom of Bemused.


Anyway, just thought on this day of dealing with heavy subjects, a little true story from the Bemused household might raise a smile.

Yes, it did.
Smile

And it WAS needed.

This is AMAZING!!!

http://www.democracynow.org/2014/5/8/pr ... _sex_abuse

Yes, amazing! Thanks for finding and linking this Allbetter!

Any chance one of the learned friends from up north might enlighten those of us not familiar with this media outlet, as to where they fit into the media spectrum?

Good article.

Here's what I could find: I had never heard about them before --

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