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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
I mean, name one good thing about mormonism? I can name a list of bad things. We don't fear them at all... we normalise them and give them TV shows.
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Relatively speaking? Mormons don't kill people for insulting Mormonism. It's not even a risk. Hell, there's a hit stage play touring the country that basically takes the piss out of Mormonism to the highest possible degree, without any fear of reprisal. The comparison is pretty obvious.
There's a big difference between asking whether homosexuality should be "accepted by society", and whether you should be thrown in jail for who you are. These are false equivalences. When I say I'd prefer not to see those sorts of values take root here, it's simply a matter of comparison with a comparably left-leaning society like Great Britain and noticing that the Muslim community there expresses values that I'd hope Canada's Muslim community would not. It's a problem I don't think we currently have in this country, and it's one I'd like to avoid.
If there are benign measures we can take to try to keep it that way, that don't impinge on Muslims' religious freedom any more than we limit religious practice elsewhere, I may be for them - but more likely, it's not going to be anything that the country does as much as what the Muslim community does to continue to favour a moderate interpretation of doctrine and a respect for secularism.