Cassandra Hedelius:

” [Critics] in a traditional church necessarily band together for discussion as best they can, now made marvelously easier by the Internet. When a website receives thousands of hits from hundreds of cities and dozens of anecdotes telling of similar problems, it’s easy to conclude that a large movement is in the offing. And large movements feel deserving of respect, acknowledgment, and validation. With due respect to the sincerity of those concerned, it is invalid to conclude that theirs is a movement the Church cannot credibly fail to fully engage.

For one thing, despite the perception of those in it, the movement is proportionally small. Size isn’t dispositive of truth, but… numbers matter very much, and can easily be distorted by a vocal minority claiming the moral authority of personal victimhood.

via ‘American Grace’ and LDS women | FAIR Blog.

Remember this next time the bloggernacle boils over: it’s probably a tempest in a teapot.

Rather than assuming some overarching conspiracy to keep controversial topics hush-hush, consider that all the quiet may be due to the reality of the smallness of the offended group. It’s easy to confuse the amplification of the internet for the relatively minuscule source.