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George Lee died on Wednesday. Just FYI.

http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/50019 ... h.html.csp

Hyrcanus wrote:George Lee died on Wednesday. Just FYI.

http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/50019 ... h.html.csp

Yes. I saw his obit and a short article on the opposing page in the DesNews. Not a peep about the trouble he apparently got himself into. Odd.

larsenb wrote:

Hyrcanus wrote:George Lee died on Wednesday. Just FYI.

http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/50019 ... h.html.csp

Yes. I saw his obit and a short article on the opposing page in the DesNews. Not a peep about the trouble he apparently got himself into. Odd.

Forgive and forget!

Bob

bobhenstra wrote:

larsenb wrote:

Hyrcanus wrote:George Lee died on Wednesday. Just FYI.

http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/50019 ... h.html.csp

Yes. I saw his obit and a short article on the opposing page in the DesNews. Not a peep about the trouble he apparently got himself into. Odd.

Forgive and forget!

Bob

Sure, but if he'd been some non-Church dignitary who had had similar troubles, I doubt they would have been so forgiving. Wonder if the Trib covered his death.

Yes, note the link to the Trib article... above.

larsenb wrote:

Hyrcanus wrote:George Lee died on Wednesday. Just FYI.

http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/50019 ... h.html.csp

Yes. I saw his obit and a short article on the opposing page in the DesNews. Not a peep about the trouble he apparently got himself into. Odd.

Typically Obit's are about the positive aspects of the persons life. The SLTrib article I linked above is not as kind.

DrJones wrote:Yes, note the link to the Trib article... above.

Duh, on my part. This was posted after a long day.

I served a mission on the Navajo Res form 93-95, while I was in Window Rock AZ, I met Kitty Lee, who was George Lee's wife. She was currently the relief society president in the ward that we were in. Not many people on the Res talk about him. Now as to why the Indian Placement program was shut down. The main reason that we were told as missionaries, was due to the people joining the church in order to get their kids on the Indian placement program so that they could live off the res. Yet when they did come back they went into inactivity, because the kids only joined because their parents wanted them to, in order to go off the res. So much of the mission was finding and reactivating those that joined only to be able to go to Utah and live with a family, with no interest at all in being members of the church. What I now hear is that the program is still available, just that they have to have family members that are already living off the reservation for them to stay with. It's a totally different world out their on the res, yet when you are among them, and they truly understand who they are and what their heritage is, you see the light of understanding, a sense of belonging come to them and they realize who they are.

“It was Elder Lee’s resistance to this change,” Mauss wrote in an e-mail, “and his continuing claim to special leadership responsibilities for himself and his people, that brought him into increasing conflict with his colleagues among the general authorities.”

It was Elder Lee's moral conduct which "brought him into increasing conflict with his colleagues among the general authorities."

How was that little bit of information overlooked?

I'm not judging George Lee; I'm judging the strange emphasis in this article about him.

buffalo_girl wrote:

“It was Elder Lee’s resistance to this change,” Mauss wrote in an e-mail, “and his continuing claim to special leadership responsibilities for himself and his people, that brought him into increasing conflict with his colleagues among the general authorities.”

It was Elder Lee's moral conduct which "brought him into increasing conflict with his colleagues among the general authorities."

How was that little bit of information overlooked?

I'm not judging George Lee; I'm judging the strange emphasis in this article about him.

I agree, it felt as thought this was an opportunity to paint him as a courageous opposer to a prophet that made personal changes to the churches direction.

Henmasher wrote:

buffalo_girl wrote:

“It was Elder Lee’s resistance to this change,” Mauss wrote in an e-mail, “and his continuing claim to special leadership responsibilities for himself and his people, that brought him into increasing conflict with his colleagues among the general authorities.”

It was Elder Lee's moral conduct which "brought him into increasing conflict with his colleagues among the general authorities."

How was that little bit of information overlooked?

I'm not judging George Lee; I'm judging the strange emphasis in this article about him.

I agree, it felt as thought this was an opportunity to paint him as a courageous opposer to a prophet that made personal changes to the churches direction.

The Trib is not exactly known for its balanced view on Church related news is it?

Additionally, I do think part of the problem with George Lee was that he did become publicly vocal about what he though was a dire mistake with the discontinuation of the placement program. I think his Excommunication was sourced in both issues, rebelling against Church leadership and being a pedophile. Not terribly surprising they'd try to emphasize the problems with Church leadership.