Elder Packer poll

By now, everyone knows that the hateful gerontocracy of the Mormon Church was on proud display by Boyd Packer. Besides the message of ignorance he's passing on, this video also reveals something we became familiar with in our years of living in Utah: the leadership of the church is really a collection of feeble-minded, doddering old fools, who frighteningly have an audience that thinks they're wonderful, no matter what they say.

A Salt Lake City television station is running a poll on whether the audience agrees with that benighted homophobia. The numbers aren't as bad as I expected, but then, SLC is full of gentiles.

Do you agree with President Packer's statement on homosexuality and same-sex marriage?

Yes (59.8%)
No (40.2%)

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