yeah that's more or less right. for mormons, agency is an important idea. god will only judge those who have the agency and capacity to make moral choices. someone with a severe disability is someone who will go to heaven when they die, someone who is special enough that god doesn't need to test them the way he does the rest of us.
We went to a comedy show last night in Houston. There's a comedian named Steve Cantwell. He was apparently a Mormon for 40 years or so.?
He told this outrageous story that I think will be crystallized in my mind forever about how his father was killed when a boy with Down syndrome took a potato chip truck and ran over him.?
I was so absorbed..? you watch the story and you don't know if it is real but I think it had to be real. Otherwise he is basically saying that people down syndrome aren't humans
Anyway he said that in the Mormon faith they have so many people who have down syndrome and that Joseph Smith even declared them (or I guess the equivalent) as being like special people or something like holy people. Does anyone know if that's true? I don't see it on Google.
He was a very talented storyteller. It reminded me of Louis CK or something. Like so intelligent and well spoken and the craft was so honed but what he was saying was so outrageously..wrong.?
This is a clip of the guy but I haven't seen the clip
