[conspire] (forw) Recent Mormon Leaks and Side Effects

[Rick Moen]

I wrote:

> The Mormon Church has always made a big thing about how their moral
> superiority over, e.g., the RCC is evinced by their clergy being
> _unpaid_  -- and continues to say so.  Turns out, some clergy are
> markedly more equal than others:  The top people (the 'General
> Authorities') are quietly sucking down quite a _lot_ of the
> parishioners' tithing money.  Confronted with this, the Church lied some
> more, denying that this suddenly-revealed funding comes from tithing at
> all, claiming it came from 'investment earnings' and parsonage
> allowances -- which is blatant obfuscation because both of those things
> come from tithing.

...which might be interesting, but I accidentally forwarded this to the
wrong mailing list, in case anyone was wondering.