120k stipend for GAs per se is not surprising nor, per se, is it very interesting. It's only a story because of (1) the church's pathological secrecy about finances, which connotes something to hide, and (2) the "lay clergy" canard. The problem is the persistent, relentless dissembling, if not lying, which seems to be very ingrained. LDS culture has values and some virtues, not among them is a high regard for truth for truth's sake. It's all about end justifies the means when it comes to truth telling or reckoning.
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Interrupt all you like. We're involved in a complicated story here, and not everything is quite what it seems to be.
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