RE: [AML] Beck, Leaving the Saints

Thom Duncan replies to:

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>Subject: Re: [AML] Beck, Leaving the Saints
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>David Pace wrote:
>
>> Maybe you didn't dismiss Martha Beck's "Leaving the Saints," but I
>> think it's wrongheaded to say the book isn't important, that
>it isn't
>> valuable to our community in some ways as a legitimate critique of
>> what I've called elsewhere our "provincial lunacies." The value of
>> her book doesn't turn only on whether her claims of abuse
>are true. I
>> recommend it to Mormons of all stripes.
>
>It's not legitimate, because her playing footloose and free
>with the facts de-legitimizes anything she has to say in it.

What "facts" does she play fast and loose with? Please list them.


>None of the testimony of the impeached witness in court is
>considered valid, not just the part that was proven to be
>unreliable. She has done the issue a disservice, because any
>legitimate criticisms she may have in there are tainted by her
>demonstrated unreliability.

Maybe you read enough in what she wrote to consider her unreliable but I
didn't.

>Don't you see that she invited the prejudicial dismissal of
>her book and anything in it by promoting the unsupported
>accusation against her father? She gave the enemy the rope to
>hang her with.

And you were sucked right into her dastardly web.

Thom