Is Asking Questions Wrong?

“Mormon Church Threatens Critic With Excommunication”

John Dehlin faces excommunication for asking questions and standing by his principles of LGBT and women’s equality.

As a wise person once said, “Why not just point out where he’s wrong, instead of excommunicating him?”

Another reasonable perspective from a wise person: “Doesn’t it say how insecure religion is? It’s such a house of cards. That if anyone says anything critical, or even draws a cartoon, they get worried?”

Instead of excommunicating John, why not just publicly point out where he’s wrong, and stand behind it?

I think the answer is, the Mormon church’s position is insecure and panicked. Excommunicating John may possibly help the church’s internal propaganda in the short term, but in the long term it will serve as yet another issue it was wrong about; just as it’s been wrong on the issues of race, gender, and sexual orientation.

Who’s really going through the crisis here? John or the Mormon church?