Mormon bigot Nancy Ormson, manager of Ormson Hearing Health Care of Amarillo, Texas, called Michelangelo Signorile to complain about how Mormons were being “persecuted.” Apparently, if you hurt somebody and they criticize you for it, that’s persecution.
Both Nancy and Michelangelo made some historical errors in their conversation; I’m trying to overlook that.
It’s worth a listen, just to hear how the haters don’t think. For Nancy Ormson, the “extermination order” against the Mormons, issued in 1838 by the Governor of Missouri, justifies anything the Mormons might do to anybody else. “We were persecuted,” she says in effect, “so anything we do to anybody else is justifiable.”
Mormons love to talk about the “extermination order.” Ask them how many people were killed under that order, they get very vague all of a sudden. Ask them how the number of people killed under the “extermination order” compares to the number of unarmed civilians the Mormons massacred at Mountain Meadows, and they get very touchy. One does not talk about Mountain Meadows. It’s an insult to talk about Mountain Meadows. All in the past and so irrelevant, you know. Not like that extermination order.
Mormons love to talk about how they’ve been persecuted. Their “martyrs” usually turn out to have been martyred under questionable circumstances — their martyred prophet Joseph Smith, for instance, was killed in a gun battle with a mob after ordering the destruction of an opposition printing press, and their martyred apostle Parley Pratt was killed by the husband of a woman with whom Pratt had run off — but there’s no denying they’ve experienced some measure of persecution.
Why they feel that justifies their persecuting others is beyond me. Why Nancy Ormson thinks she’s being persecuted if people mention her name is beyond me, too. One thing I know for certain: Nancy isn’t being “persecuted” (i.e., having her name mentioned) for her religious beliefs, but for forcing her religious beliefs on others.