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I just finished up work and was checking on this site before going home and here are the 3 unread topics I had: – New church videos on diversity and inclusion
– BYU Honor Code Amnesty: Policy Changes re: Sexual Assault
– Mormon and Gay – BCC – LDS.org
I know I am not the first to mention it, but I just can’t see this anything more than a bit of a distraction away from the up-coming anniversary of the POX leak. They are all steps forward, but I can’t see it as a play to do everything except reverse or further refine the policy – something to fall back on when the “POX anniversary critiques” come in the next few weeks. I expect we might even see a few more “hey – we are not so bad” PR in the next few days.
Signed – Grumpy Silverback
Similarly, Dan Brown’s Inferno is being released in theatres on 10/28, just a week before the POX-iversary, and it’s about the unleashing of a deadly virus on the earth, a pox if you will. So, ya know . . . I see the BYU Honor code thing as something the church HAD to do, as a result of all the publicity. The other two, not so sure…. SilentDawning wrote:I see the BYU Honor code thing as something the church HAD to do, as a result of all the publicity. The other two, not so sure….
Agreed. I was pointing out more the timing. The honor code / Title IX could have come out 3 weeks later and it wouldn’t have made a big difference. But putting out nearly daily “positive” PR before you know some negative is coming, is – well – good PR management! Oh wait. I am sure it was TSM that coordinated it.Frankly, I refuse to nitpick the timing – since I WANT all three things out earlier rather than later. Serious questions:
If you knew they were ready to move forward on any or all of these and that they waited until after the policy anniversary, how would you react?
People have been criticizing the Church for not moving more quickly on the BYU Honor Code issue, so why would it be fine (or even better) for them to wait longer just because of the policy anniversary?
Finally, I think we are more aware of and sensitive to the anniversary than they are. I might be wrong, but I just don’t believe all of this was coordinated to deflect attention from it. The attention is going to happen regardless – so they could have waited for a couple of weeks and really tried to defect from it. They didn’t.
I seem to remember when the POX came out that it did not seem that the Mormon PR people were part of the process. I think it unlikely that the PR people are now making coordinated timing decisions for different subjects and levels of authority.
The Website and the videos I can see being PR coordinated. The BYU stuff not so much.
Old Timer wrote:If you knew they were ready to move forward on any or all of these and that they waited until after the policy anniversary, how would you react?
Initial response…It would feel more calculated and cold, I think. It would make the good ideas feel like they were concessions or somewhat hollow gestures…instead of just doing the right thing for that sake.
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