Prometheus 6

This sort of thing is why I use my own limited skills to administer my sites.

Freedom.

At last.

I can finally write what I want without some Mormon censoring me. In fact, if I hadn't switched tech teams I couldn't even use the graphic above. It's been a harrowing six weeks and it's all the General's fault. Actually it's not, but it all started with one little, measly link from the General.

The trouble started with this post, "Malleable Contender," which was about Mitt Romney. In one portion about Mormonism I talked about it "not being a mainstream religion" and then linked to the General's post entitled "What Mitt Believes... (Volume 2),". Later in the day, during my radio show, I interviewed my husband who was a good Mormon for decades, but who has since left the church and taken his name off the roles, which is a very big deal. He had to petition the bishop, send in certified letters, but we still got visits from LDS prodding him to stay. I had nothing to do with his choice, but I watched it play out. Anyway, on the show that day we talked about Mitt and Mormonism, but were very respectful. I knew little about Mormonism until I moved to Nevada to do radio. It's been an eye opening experience. Mitt's run had me looking into it further, because my husband and I don't talk about it. Anyway, the discussion on my show with my husband was very light, because he didn't want to appear to be bashing anyone's religion. We went out of our way to be respectful. After the show and much to my surprise I received the following email from my tech team. It's signed by them both but it came from the wife's email address.

Taylor, We realize that you do not like Mitt Romney or his religion, but his religion is also our religion.We do not expect you or anyone else to agree with our religion. However, when you link to sites like this, it makes us think that you have little respect for us. Our name is on your site. We sponsor your radio show. When you link to people who have absolutely no respect for things we hold sacred, our name is put on that too. You have a right to your own opinion, but so do we. We take our religion seriously. We will not put our name on or sponsor something that shows no respect for it. We know that Mark is an ex-Mormon, we have no problem with him personally. He has a right to believe or not believe as he wishes. We feel he still has ill feelings towards our church. Therefore, we feel that he is not the most reliable source for information on our church. I realize what I have said has probably angered you. This is not my intention. I only wish to impress upon you how serious this is to us. We have had a good long professional and personal relationship with you. We would like to continue this relationship, but will not if things like this are going to be on your site. It would be very unfortunate for our relationship to end this way, but we feel very strongly about this. Sincerely, Rachel & Jason Frey

To show you how naive I can be at times, I honestly didn't know my crime. These are people I've worked with for around four years or so, had into my home, taken them to dinner, given them baby gifts. But they didn't even bother to pick up the phone and call me to tell me what I'd done. The emails that flew back and forth from that point escalated gradually. However, I was so caught off guard by them that my first response was angry and indignant, especially to their charge about the Mormon religion.

After that they censored my site. They didn't tell me or warn me. They didn't say, take down this link or we'll take it down ourselves. Or take down the link or we will not host your site. Nothing. They pulled down the link to Jesus' General without asking me, pulled my radio show from broadcast (at a time when they knew I was working with my team to get back on the air), because they "sponsored" it, which basically meant it went through their servers. Then Jason went into my admin section and and took down their advertising links without telling me beforehand that they were editing material from my site without permission. They basically entered my admin section because they felt they had the right to alter any content that didn't suit them. Our exchange went like this after the General's link disappeared..