Another day under the thumb of Utah’s theocracy

As everyone knows, Utah is a full-blown theocracy — essentially, it’s Iran West — in which the state’s alleged government does nothing without first gaining the approval of the leadership of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

This proves how evil and oppressive Mormonism is.

The Utah State Senate has just passed a bill regarding the medical use of marijuana that was expressly opposed by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints:

http://www.sltrib.com/home/3582811-155/utah-senate-passes-medical-marijuana-bill

This proves that nobody pays any attention to the leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a bunch of irrelevant old white men, and demonstrates how absurd and unimportant Mormonism is.

Three and a half decades ago, a friend was enrolled in a graduate class in medieval art history that focused on European cathedrals.  The teacher, who was originally from Germany, was a genuine communist but seemed a curious throwback to a much earlier era.  Perhaps to the 1920s or 193os.  Definitely Old Left, rather than New Left.  She had written some good books, and maybe had once been interesting.  But her lectures, my friend said, were excruciatingly monotonous.  Each stained glass window in every cathedral, whatever its content or history or sponsorship or theme, turned out to be a testament to class struggle, a specimen of the oppression of the proletariat by the petty bourgeois merchant class, and so on and so forth.  My friend remarked that, even before they looked at a window, he could easily have written her remarks because they always adopted exactly the same approach and came, inevitably, to precisely the same conclusion.  Nothing was allowed to contradict, or even to escape, the professor’s rigid ideology.  The actual variety of life was reduced to monochromatic repetition.