LDS Church Buys Ogden Motel: Closes the Doors
"Residents of the Ogden Lodge were scrambling to find a new place to live Thursday as The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints finalized the purchase of it and plans to demolish the motel to pave the way for future development...The property is of interest to the church because of its proximity to the Ogden Utah Temple and the church's well-established support of downtown redevelopment efforts," [Scott Trotter, a spokesman for the church] said, adding that plans for the land have not been determined.
Now it seems the seller (not the church) was responsible for giving the residents sufficient time to get the fuck out, but one guy says he only got notice last week. The Church is throwing it's arms in the air "we were assured!"
But does it matter?
The Church doesn't even know what the fuck they're going to do with the property. And it's their property now, not the other dude's. Can't they just say "okokok, you know what, Christ would let you keep your home or at least give you somewhere else to live. At the very least we could wait until next year. It's not like we're hurting financially or plan on doing anything until next summer. Merry Christ-Christmas-Christ."
Naaaah.
"My name is Tom Monson. I oversee '13 million' members of the Church. I wax poetic about widows so y'all know how compassionate I am. I call myself a prophet, a seer, and a revelator; even a businessman who represents Christ. As such, I needlessly kick the unfortunate out of their crappy but needed homes right before Christmas for our financial benefit. And I'm a Mormon."
Keep paying your tithing, good members. It's doing awesome things.
And a Merry Colbert to you! :)
ReplyDeleteWow. Right before Christmas too. Not that I didn't already know they are greedy non-compassionate assholes, but, wow. Thanks for bringing this to my attention. I needed one more reason to hate LDS Inc. I was starting to get a little soft.
ReplyDeleteCharles Darwin, what assholes.
ReplyDeleteThey do this all the time. They actually kicked old people out of a rent controlled apartment building in Glendale, CA back in the 1980's so they could tear down an old ward house, expand onto neighboring property, and build a shiny new stake center. Irony is, that as wards and stakes have shrunk in CA, that building is no longer a stake center -- just a ward house.
ReplyDeletelong live the prophet?
ReplyDeleteyou'd think he would've known. and for a dude who lurves the old people, gawd. next time i hear them talk about being christlike, i think i'll punch something.
and then i'll probably donate something to some organization. this shit is whack.
i want so much to show this to MLDSFDTS. so much.
I'm never surprised by this nonsense.
ReplyDelete"My name is Tom Monson. I oversee '13 million' members of the Church. I wax poetic about widows so y'all know how compassionate I am. I call myself a prophet, a seer, and a revelator; even a businessman who represents Christ. As such, I needlessly kick the unfortunate out of their crappy but needed homes right before Christmas for our financial benefit. And I'm a Mormon."
ReplyDeleteGreat and VERY accurate quote! I would love to post that on FB right now. Oh, I'm just itchin...