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- rendersan, on 02/23/2008, -0/+1The Mormons are not ignoring it. Most of them are fed up with him and would like to see him go. He's a crazy old man who doesn't even have the respect of the rest of the legislature. This story has been in the papers in Utah every day since it began and nobody is sympathizing much with Buttars.
The Mormon Church as a formal organization, on the other hand, is not "complicit in its silence," as the article accuses, because they do not meddle in politics and especially do not comment on individual politicians. You might accuse a church to be complicit in its silence if it was in the habit of speaking out politically like many churches do, but in this case, the LDS church wouldn't bother to comment on anything going on in the legislature except for perhaps gay marriage or zoning issues.
Remember that the LDS church never even bothered to comment on whether they endorsed Mitt Romney. Are they sending a message with their silence? Hardly. Silence in politics is *normal* for them.
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