{"id":469,"date":"2004-02-26T19:01:24","date_gmt":"2004-02-27T00:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=469"},"modified":"2017-06-21T01:44:19","modified_gmt":"2017-06-21T06:44:19","slug":"a-mormon-image-mormons-on-the-picket-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2004\/02\/a-mormon-image-mormons-on-the-picket-line\/","title":{"rendered":"A Mormon Image: Mormons on the Picket Line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mormons have a well-deserved reputation as a conservative bunch. Hence, I have to include this wonderful image of leftist Mormons on the picket line.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gomakecontact.com\/mesj\/photo-gallery\/fullsize-photos\/minerspicket2.jpg\" width=\"500\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The picture shows a members of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gomakecontact.com\/mesj\/index.html\">Mormons for Equality and Social Justice<\/a> picketing with striking miners in Huntington, Utah.  If you haven&#8217;t been following the adventures of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gomakecontact.com\/mesj\/index.html\">MESJ<\/a>, you ought to.  They are an group of Mormons who are interested in left-wing\/progressive politics <i>and<\/i> religious orthodoxy and loyalty to the church.<\/p>\n<p>I think that they are important for a number of reasons.  First, they are explicitly trying to articulate a political vision based on Mormonism.  Second, their efforts illustrate that Mormon conservatism need not be a foregone conclusion.  Hence they open the possibility of a pluralistic, but nevertheless explicity Mormon and faithful discussion on politics.  Third, even if you don&#8217;t agree with their particular brand of political activism, a bit more political diversity among Mormons can only be good for the Church and for Mormonism.<\/p>\n<p>Kudos to MESJ from a basically classical liberal Mormon!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mormons have a well-deserved reputation as a conservative bunch. Hence, I have to include this wonderful image of leftist Mormons on the picket line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[1405],"class_list":["post-469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-images","tag-a-mormon-image"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36782,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469\/revisions\/36782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}