Show I cant can't hear you over the singing i Leslie Conder Opinion Editor If you cant can't say something nice dont don't say anything at all is a phrase most people grew up hearing nearing Because of the creativity that young children have with last names my mother also gave me this sound advice Just ignore them and they will stop Mormons going to General Conference tried that route for several years and the protesters didn't stop they only grew louder Growing up in a Mormon household my mom would take my family to at least one of the four Conference sessions It was something that I looked forward to every six months because I felt that it was something sp special cial One particular session when I was about l 11 1 or 12 I was walking behind my brother in the line that used to wrap around Temple Square before the days of the mighty Conference Center The buzzing of familiar voices suddenly was overpowered by loud male voices yelling horrible things about my religion I couldn't see the men yet I was scared nonetheless so I grabbed tightly to my mothers mother's hand My mom looked down at me and told me not to worry and to just ignore them As we crossed the street the beauty Square was clouded by disgusting posters with up blown-up photographs of aborted fetuses pasted on the front with the words Mormons believe in abortion I looked at my mother in confusion and asked We dont don't believe in abortion do we My mother told me that we And then the question that has stayed with me even into my non- non active adulthood came Then how can they say wedo we wedo wedo do I have yet to find an answer to my question The protesters at Temple Square have to purchase a city permit to protest at a particular site A couple of years ago the church purchased its own permit and placed its missionaries at the Conference Center as aswell aswell well wen as feet away from the protesters at Temple Square These missionaries are not there to yell yen obscenities at the protesters The missionaries are there for LOS members to see when they are walking out of a spiritually uplifting conference session These missionaries came up with the idea to sing hymns so that members wouldn't have to hear remarks that would detract from the uplifting nature of their recent experience These strong missionaries were joined by many members of the church There were so many voices singing that you couldn't hear the Christians yelling A Afew Afew Afew few years later I was able to witness this remarkable vision and it was fantastic to behold I still to this day do donot donot donot not understand what is Christian about lying putting down or insulting another religion Where does it say in the Bible that if you believe a religion is wrong to go protest it Where does it say in the Bible to take sacred clothing and blow your nose in it I dont don't understand why one would think its it's a good idea to show disgusting pictures to children are not of your religion while trying to hide those same images from your own children Where does it say in the Bible to spread propaganda and use smear tactics to tomake tomake tomake make one religion look bad I dont don't recall any passage from Genesis to Revelations that says any of those things make you youa a better Chr Christian stian I will probably get letters to the editor about how I am not being Christian to those protesting Christians Maybe I should have listened to my mother and not said anything at all |