u/Important-Stage-1005

Oaks is only doing this for personal revenge against John Dehlin. And because Oaks has a big army of lawyers and unlimited funds to waste. He thinks he's invincible and just likes being a bully.

I'm seeking for whatever the apologetics are for this lawsuit. I don't believe there are any apologetics from a gospel perspective.

The church's statement did not reference the gospel, let alone any scriptures.

Objectively, the church has to be quietly looking for a way out of the most "streisand effect" lawsuit in history. United healthcare suing Luigi would not produce this much backfire.

1. The church, in suing John Dehlin has only given incalculable free publicity to John Dehlin, which has only come back to bite the church in the Gs.

2. The suit has literally unified opposition to the church in a way not seen since genius ordered the printing press destroyed.

3. They literally thought it was a good idea to sue a guy who has a big platform to ask for legal donations, which are pouring in. Such a great plan.

4. The church signed up for a PR nightmare that has totally overwhelmed their online games of buying bot posters, bot accounts, upvote farms, search engine ordering, bot style ads that ironically mislead people into not realizing they're clicking on a MORMON paid ad etc.

5. The church did all this in an environment when public sentiment towards corporate churches is at an all time low. Sentiment towards corporations and institutions is at an all time low. In a way that made the church look like a law firm that plays church. Made the church look like scientology.

ANSWER: the best strategic move for the church AT THIS POINT, is to offer 20-50k to John Dehlin to sign a non disclosure agreement agreeing not to talk about receiving money to not talk about receiving money, to only say that he and the church "came to an agreement" that allows the church to drop this utterly idiotic harry carey lawsuit and move back to just playing church instead of playing big skanky law firm that plays church.

I'd bet that in under a year they drop it.

Who is Oaks even playing to here with this hyper technical weak lawsuit that has already backfired and streisand effected?

Himself and his lawyer industrial complex. This amounts to lawyer-sterbation.

Laughably, this miscalculation leaves TBMs out in the cold without any way to publicly defend his majesty. They're not part of Oaks' little gaggle of imbecile yes-men lawyers who handed him cialis and got under his desk to fellatio-convince him this was a good idea.

Ratio'd is no longer the term for massive miscalculation getting you owned on your own platforms, it's now called pulling a dallin. Or dallin'ing oneself.

TBMs are utterly desperate to defend the church from the biggest corporate mistake since new coke or the new cracker barrel logo. These kind of corporate mistakes have three stages:

Stage 1: the confident exposure (let's get ahead of the narrative by publishing a news story in ksl and deserted news) publicly helicoptering the proverbial flaccid penis

Stage 2: the quiet realization of the mega fuck up <--- dildo dallins and his not so merry men are HERE

Stage 3: denial evasion stage combined with quiet reversal and trying to move on while peeling out tires (usually takes about a month to get here while CEOs let yes men line up to give them oral that doesn't criticize the ceo but gives sloppy drippy garbled strategic advice in corporate-speak about "brand integrity" and "it had to be done sir so we could strategically move forward."