Heck, no, SM! There are PLENTY of people who have a problem with it. Quinn and council are aware that there are plenty of people who feel that way, but I think it’s been just from individual communications and things they’ve heard from the leaders of the groups that studied the book (I dropped out of my group after the second meeting). There hasn’t been any organized protest, and I’m sure I would have been aware of it if there had been.
In the meeting this week, the outgoing president told me that council had several organizations from which to choose to have an outside evaluation done of the church and its functioning, and she said that Quinn did not try to promote the church doctor over the others. She said that the decision to choose the church doctor was made by council. Quinn also told me that he doesn’t subscribe to the church doctor’s philosophy; he’s a consultant with them because this guy mentored him at one time and put his name on the list. Quinn said he’s never done a consultation and never plans to do one. The way he acts, though, lines up so closely with his mentor’s approaches that I left the meeting feeling strange: it looks like a duck, it walks like a duck, it quacks like a duck, and it says it’s a moose. I decided just to watch to see if the church did in fact turn into a duck pond, but I’m not sure now that I want to wait that long and get soaked.
