AGENCY - AND YOUR OPINION

This life is a great battle - one over ensuring that EVERYONE who qualified for a body is entitled to their chance at moral agency, regardless of their position.  The other focus of this life is to ensure that truth prevails over error and wickedness.  If we seek to diminish someone's moral agency or do not fight for truth - we have failed in our mission and will not make the grade.

We had a great talk today by a Stake High Councilor on member missionary work.  The thing that came out of that talk that struck me the most was a quote by Daniel Patrick Moynihan, a politician and US Ambassador.  He said this: 

Everyone is entitled to their own opinions, but they are not entitled to their own facts.

So, when I get testy about something - where someone appears to be attempting to manipulate the facts into what appears to be their opinion, I leave the "fight for moral agency" mode and I go into "fight for truth" mode and start to shred.  My wife is the same - but being a nurturer (by design) she approaches things from a standpoint of "mercy".  Being the patriarch, defender, male-type, I approach them from the "justice" standpoint.  The reason I call us "Brother Justice and Sister Mercy".....  So, when we put the two together (the two perfect halves, so to speak), we have a beautiful synergy and "whole" perspective that cannot be beat.  That is why I am a big fan of the role of woman - I get the need for that completing and finishing perspective.  And, for the most part, I believe she understands my role and how we fit together beautifully.