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I could be wrong about this, but I thought at some point in the past the Church had formulated guidelines to protect the rights of those undergoing the destructive procedure of excommunication. Now it feels like Juliann Reynolds explaining how BYU can do anything it wants, "because it's private". No...

The Stake President in Kansas, where she lived before moving to Utah in 2019, explaining the reasons for her removal from the Salt Lake City-based church. “After carefully and prayerfully considering this matter,” the letter states, “it was the decision of the council to withdraw your church member...

alas wrote: ↑

Thu Apr 22, 2021 1:22 pm

Should we start calling Nelson a prophet, seer, and relabeler?

Yes.

For future excommunications of this sort, HQ should just hold a short press conference and announce it. Spare the participants the bother and expense of these mock in absentia proceedings.

Red Ryder wrote: ↑

Thu Apr 22, 2021 7:41 am

However, wouldn’t it be ironic if John was funding this through backroom deals? You know, to create buzz around his own brand?

Sort of like Jesus staging that whole "Cross on Cavalry" thing?

Kwaku has a brand new video out called “ The End of John Dehlin .” Not sure if some new Mormon group is bankrolling this character assassination video or if it one of the usual suspects just doing a clandestine end-run around after they had been told to knock it off and act in a disciple of Jesus ma...

Reuben wrote: ↑

Wed Apr 21, 2021 4:36 pm

Paragraph 4 is amazing. Summary: "We value diversity of opinion in matters of doctrine and belief, as long as you keep it to yourself."

I think of it as a warning: "Suffer in silence or else".

Advocate wrote: ↑

Tue Apr 20, 2021 12:25 pm

Or it could be that he's just been busy getting up to speed with his new calling.

There are those two volumes of the Bishop's Handbook, plus that huge Unwritten Rules.

Wonder what the LDS apologetic response to this discovery will be? Most likely denial and perhaps suggesting it was something else, like a storeroom for whiskey in anticipation of prohibition, still many years away. It might take a darker turn with an ad hominem attack on the discoverer. Perhaps sug...

Didn’t Oaks run the surveillance program to trap homosexual students at BYU in the late 70’s? “We are not going to stand for solicitation of sexual acts—homosexual or heterosexual—on this campus and among its students. We ask Security to be especially watchful for that kind of crime”.[10] And was i...

jfro18 wrote: ↑

Sat Apr 17, 2021 1:03 pm

Is there anyone worse than Oaks?

Some of the Brethren such as Elder Cook and Elder Bednar have not been accorded the same level of speaking opportunities as President Oaks.

Bad deeds are best done behind closed doors by gentlemen dressed in suits with BYU ties. There apparently are no news stories on this that have appeared on Google.

This meeting was a mere formality. The decision had already been made at Church HQ.

Kwaku with Radio Free Mormon and Bill Reel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kd7EdebQ194

Yobispo wrote: ↑

Thu Apr 15, 2021 9:22 am

I pray it gets recorded and broadcast.

Outer Darkness is wise to this. They will probably demand to pat her down as she enters the courtroom.

Natasha could always try to make courtroom sketches of the prosecuting elders afterward:

So what about General Zelph? Any speculation as to his genetic heritage or whether he was born at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles?

Let's be thankful the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation showed integrity and stood firm on this issue.

I got my first Moderna shot yesterday - my shoulder area has been stiff for about 36 hours but nothing to complain about. Just glad to finally get an appt here and get the ball rolling! Do you suddenly feel the urge to build a multi-million dollar luxury cavern in the hillside of Bainbridge Island ...

Pioneer Day Parade July 24, 1947

City Mattress Factory 1898

First same-sex couple married in SLC by Mayor Becker in 2013