I think Quinn was exed for pride--thinking he
knew more than the anointed ones who have been called up and chosen to lead
the LDS church.
Right it is drummed into LDS minds:
NEVER CRITICIZE our leaders even if it is true!
"It is one thing to depreciate a person who exercises corporate power or
even government power. It is quite another thing to criticize or depreciate
a person for the performance of an office to which he or she has been called
of God. It does not matter that the criticism is
true."
" As Elder George F. Richards, President of the Council of the Twelve,
said in a conference address in April 1947, 'when we say anything bad about
the leaders of the Church, whether true or false,
we tend to impair their influence and their usefulness and are thus working
against the Lord and his cause.' ... The Holy Ghost will not guide or
confirm criticism of the Lord's anointed, or of Church leaders, local or
general. This reality should be part of the spiritual evaluation that LDS
readers and viewers apply to those things written about our history and those
who made it." Dallin H. Oaks, "Reading Church History," CES Doctrine
and Covenants Symposium, Brigham Young University, 16 Aug. 1985, page 25. also
see Dallin H. Oaks, "Elder Decries Criticism of LDS Leaders," quoted in The
Salt Lake Tribune, Sunday August 18, 1985, p. 2B
“That historian or scholar who delights in pointing out the weaknesses
and frailties of present or past leaders destroys faith. A destroyer of
faith — particularly one within the Church, and more particularly one who is
employed specifically to build faith — places himself in great spiritual
jeopardy. He is serving the wrong master, and unless he repents, he will
not be among the faithful in the eternities. ... Do not spread disease
germs!"
- Boyd K. Packer, "The Mantle is Far, Far Greater Than the
Intellect", 1981, BYU Studies, Vol. 21, No. 3, pp. 259-271
WATCH HOW LDS PUT THE SCRIPTURE ON IT'S HEAD:"Any who are tempted to
rake through the annals of history, to use truth unrighteously, or to
dig up “facts” with the intent to defame or destroy, should hearken to
this warning of scripture:
“The righteousness of God [is] revealed from faith to faith: as it is
written, The just shall live by faith. For the wrath of God is revealed from
heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth
in unrighteousness.” (Rom. 1:17-18.)
"I repeat: 'The wrath of God is … against all … who hold the truth
in unrighteousness.'"