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[theweaselking]

Ah, the traditional mating rituals of the Mormons: When your "home instruction" student refuses your advances, taser her and handcuff her and try to carry her off.

(The phenomenon of "home instruction" and "youth pastor" and "learning guide" and "parish priest" being predatory is not unique to Mormonism, of course. They just normally don't go after adults, or get arrested.)

Comments

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

I think "Mormon" is less the impelling factor here than "20-year-old".

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

I think "home instructor" is closer to the root cause, myself.

[publius1.livejournal.com]

Amongst the 20-year-olds I have known, tasing and kidnapping a spurned love was relatively rare!

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Is there a segment of people you do know where it's common?

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

"Youth Pastor Watch" (http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2010/04/01/youth-pastor-watch) would suggest some correlations.

(There's 3-5 "stalker/pedophile/rapist" stories a week from Baptist "youth pastors" alone, let alone the Catholics, scientologists, Mormons, etc.)

[publius1.livejournal.com]

Not really! But then, I wasn't describing them as the impelling force! Also, I am using too many exclamation points!

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

You know who else uses exclamation points? THE VATICAN.

[gygaxis.livejournal.com]

Gonna have to second this notion.

Unless most 20 year olds you know are ALSO the police. Then I will believe they are tasering everything. At this point I think it would be fairly accurate to think of police taser use like the Simpson's ep where Homer gets a gun and starts using it to operate lightswitches, the tv, just about anything conceivably possible. And the idea of cops tasering light switches actually makes me a bit happy.

[gebkivistik.livejournal.com]

Isn't the magic underwear supposed to protect you from stuff like that?

[gygaxis.livejournal.com]

It would, but it's conductive, as we know science is the weakness of any magic underwear or otherwise

[gebkivistik.livejournal.com]

You know, there's probably a really good untapped market out there for taser resistant magic underwear. I'll bet my stack of Mormon Prop 8 propaganda that the nitwits out on their upcoming California missions to convert the poor souls unaware of the teachings of the Moroni(c) angel will snap it up.

[gygaxis.livejournal.com]

Only if it's falsely advertised and they actually still suffer when justly tased for being horrific bigots.

[flemco.livejournal.com]

Don't be silly. You don't get the magic underwear until you marry in the temple. Until then, you're just swingin' that hoo-ha in the wind, where any old Home Teacher can smell it and go after it like so many ferrets on a diaper pail.

Back in my day, gals had a healthier sense of humor about this kind of courtship.

[scixual.livejournal.com]

Is that true? I was sure missionaries wore the undies, and they're unmarried.

[dreamshade.livejournal.com]

Are you old enough that you remember clubbing girls over the head with a stone mace and dragging them back to the cave by their hair?

[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

[dreamshade.livejournal.com]

(b >_<)b

[opaqueplanet.livejournal.com]

"ducit domum" is thousands of years old.

[the-trav.livejournal.com]

APRIL FOOOLS! *applies tazer again*