In an apparent attempt to shame a recently deceased Mormon leader in the name of social progress, the New York Times weakened the moral authority of the very causes it so eagerly seeks to advance. In the Times' obituary of Thomas S. Monson, the recently deceased president and prophet of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the LDS Church and its members were subtly stigmatized for their traditional teachings and stances on social issues.
Rather than publish a eulogy focusing on what President Monson did during his life, the paper took the opportunity of his death to emphasize what Monson and the church opted not to do, tweeting that “Thomas Monson, president of the Mormon church who rebuffed demands to ordain women as priests and refused to alter church opposition to same-sex marriage, died Tuesday at 90.”
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