On 12/27/06, Marianne Hales Harding <marianne_hales_harding@???>
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.
>
> The book doesn't turn on the claims of abuse--those are just the most
> sensational parts. The point is that she is an unreliable narrator. Her
> book is so full of holes and patently ridiculous stories that her critique
> of the culture is useless because it is a caricature, not a true picture.
>
> Marianne Hales Harding
>
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