Ex-Mormon apostle honors Joe Lieberman

Remember former U.S. Senator and failed presidential and vice-presidential candidate Joe Lieberman? For those whose memory is a little hazy, this is how the far-left Wikipedia summarizes his position on killing children:

Overall Lieberman has a pro-choice voting record, and in 2007 he received a grade of 100 from the abortion rights organization NARAL Pro-Choice America. While running in the Democratic primaries in the 2004 presidential election, Lieberman said that as president he would "follow a policy that makes abortion safe, rare and legal." He voted against the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act.

And on killing adults:

According to a 2003 article in the Boston Globe, Lieberman "initially supported the Vietnam War, then changed his mind in late 1967, when he decided it was 'the wrong place to be.' He has firmly backed every military action since then: Grenada, Libya, Panama, Kosovo, Afghanistan, and both Gulf wars." Since that time, he has repeatedly urged new American attacks against Iran, Syria and, most recently, action in Yemen against terrorists.

He was also an early advocate of turning YouTube into the censorship platform it has become today. This was in 2008, so before-it-was-cool that even the far-left New York Times was against him.

Lieberman "demanded that YouTube take down hundreds of videos produced by Islamist terrorist organizations or their supporters. YouTube reviewed the videos to determine whether they violated its guidelines, which prohibit hate speech and graphic or gratuitous violence. It took down 80 videos, but left others up. Mr. Lieberman said that was 'not enough,' and demanded that more come down." The New York Times reported that Lieberman was "trying to pressure YouTube to pull down videos he does not like" and wrote that "[w]hile it is fortunate that Mr. Lieberman does not have the power to tell YouTube that it must remove videos, it is profoundly disturbing that an influential senator would even consider telling a media company to shut down constitutionally protected speech."

Imagine the Times saying anything remotely like that today! The senator was truly a man ahead of his time.

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And here's what Ex-Mormon Apostle Quentin L. Cook is up to these days.

You can tell from his face that this guy just loves being allowed to hang out with celebrities. Here he is last year with a Harvard "African American studies" professor and a handsy archbishop.

I give Elder Cook a hard time, but he really was a prophet, at least once in his career.

What happened since then? James sums it up pretty well.

Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God (James 4:4).