Reading through the "Light and Truth Letter" a totally-not-written-by-the-church response to the infamous CES Letter that's been plaguing Mormonism for years now.
It's amazing* how they seem to have managed to not seriously engage with a single one of the issues I have with the church.
#ExMormon #NotACult #CESLetter
* not really
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in reply to Jonathan Lamothe • •Wow, I finally got to my "shelf breaker" item: the way the church handles reports of sexual abuse. They actually have the audacity to list "the helpline"* as something that makes people safer.
This is some real Ministry of Truth shit.
Source: lightandtruthletter.org/letter…
* You know, the helpline that has instructed these untrained bishops to not report to the authorities and then move to sweep them under the rug.
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I was curious, so I looked, and it missed my reason, too.
For me, it was the 2015 PoX (Policy of Exclusion). I saw it as directly contrary to the 2nd Article of Faith and was instantly thrown into existential crisis.
No, I wasn't the only one. Yes, it was so self-destructive, the church took it back 5 years later. That wasn't quick enough for my friend who could not reconcile all the parts of herself torn apart by that policy and died by suicide.
The leadership continues to harm people who are LGBTQ and those who care for them. I can't see Christ anywhere in that.
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When you said that it got to your issue, I went back and paged through and found the LGBTQ section.
Those references he makes to "evidence" about "LGB" people with no acknowledgement he's intentionally excluding trans people because they are being horribly abused by the church and our society right now is disgusting.
And he's very shallow on the issue as he obviously doesn't know anyone who will talk to him about it. All he has is John Dehlin, who is not the best, either.
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