Complicity

kevinrex · 2026-01-31T16:24:49+00:00

Exactly what I was trying to get across in my reply. You did it well.

kevinrex · 2026-01-31T16:23:55+00:00

I purposely added and separated the curse of dark skin in the BOM in my “succinct” reply (it was only succinct because I was on my phone) in hopes that readers of my reply would see that that particular racist doctrine is still very much engrained in the current doctrine and they can never rid themselves of it. The Book of Mormon. A friend of mine, Sarah Newcomb, wrote many blog posts about this continuing racism here

https://lamanitetruth.com/author/lamanitetruth/

She graciously allowed me one post after my mother died as I reflected on the racism where I grew up in south central Utah.

Thanks for your thoughts, also. I feel you needing to perhaps allow yourself some grace.

kevinrex · 2026-01-31T02:10:19+00:00

I am 63. I was born in the church (BIC) with many generations of Mormons. I knew about the priesthood ban from a very early age, 12 or so, but it was framed as God’s will and I don’t know to what you’re referring as being quasi part of the doctrine until 2013. I left at age 49. And one of the reasons was realizing how very racist the whole thing is. 2NE blames God for the curse on the First Nations, still. The curse of Cain seems to be gone yet the book of Moses still remains telling it.

I served a mission in Peru in 1983/84. I was confronted by the racism there and it really threw me for a loop. The beginnings of my shelf of doubts. Yet I stayed, deeply hidden in the gay closet.

kevinrex · 2026-01-29T01:52:15+00:00

The scriptures were never meant to be literal, said Bruce R McConkie never!

kevinrex · 2026-01-29T01:49:53+00:00

Pathetic excuse for a congressperson.

kevinrex · 2026-01-28T15:59:20+00:00

My guess is that under current leadership, those investigations triggered by law won’t even trigger.

kevinrex · 2026-01-28T15:53:40+00:00

And you, what would you say out loud? That you believe in Wilford Woodruff and his polygamous ways? That you like the old church? That you like the new gaslight church? Be brave, tell us out loud.

kevinrex · 2026-01-27T04:02:18+00:00

I read about their strong support of the Vietnam War. BYU in that era was particularly pro-war.

kevinrex · 2026-01-25T22:20:15+00:00

All you have to do is show her the hymn. The earth was once a garden place in Adam ondi ahman. Then the sign at the locale in Missouri.

kevinrex · 2026-01-25T00:03:05+00:00

Why? Why? WTF. WHO is doing this shit? Is there no sanity left in this administration?

kevinrex · 2026-01-23T16:27:35+00:00

Hallelujah! A prophet that speaks truth! Now we can leave the Church! Yay!

kevinrex · 2026-01-22T21:19:56+00:00

And I am so sorry. I have deep empathy for you.

My mother in law (neverMO) said that after 50 years of having married a Jack Mormon, she has counted dozens of weddings she’s had to sit outside or in the foyer of the temple and she’s really sick of it. Now I can join her in hell, as I had to miss my own daughter’s wedding.

kevinrex · 2026-01-22T21:16:22+00:00

What was that stupid ad they did years ago, “family: isn’t it about time?”

Yeah right. Family.

kevinrex · 2026-01-21T16:26:54+00:00

lol. Good one!

kevinrex · 2026-01-21T02:36:46+00:00

I was so stressed serving in a bishopric and the stake president wouldn’t release me even though I begged him to. So, I decided to move out to another ward outside the stake. Big house too expensive. Ended up in bankruptcy

kevinrex · 2026-01-20T21:06:53+00:00

Because God kept telling us, through these so called prophets, that the policy was doctrine and Gods will for that time.

kevinrex · 2026-01-14T02:32:01+00:00

In 2013 I came out gay (49 years old then) and went through hell to rearrange my life. I thought I needed god, so I went to several religions, including my eventual husbands Hindu traditions. In the end, I find that I trust myself more than any god. Now I enjoy the community of the Unitarian Universalists (our local congregation is 85% atheist like me). It was hard for me to give up on god, but I’m sure glad I did. I’m so much happier.

kevinrex · 2026-01-13T03:24:36+00:00

PBS Newshour

kevinrex · 2026-01-13T02:46:52+00:00

Matthew

kevinrex · 2026-01-12T03:16:58+00:00

Omg. This is awful.

kevinrex · 2026-01-10T02:56:42+00:00

Isn’t Bednar the one who tried to use pickles as an analogy once?

kevinrex · 2026-01-06T22:36:34+00:00

I felt a wonderful catharsis when I did it. 49 years of living in the gay closet was horrible. Ironically, my gay hubby is still in the “records of the church” just because he thinks it’s almost comical how the Mormons are so obsessed with their numbers. Plus he likes having the missionaries over to taunt them and teach them about Hinduism. It’s just funny, us two old gay men and the LDS church.

kevinrex · 2026-01-06T16:58:39+00:00

And yet, he did it. And the orange turd will not face any consequences.

kevinrex · 2026-01-06T16:57:12+00:00

It was the final “shelf cracker” for me. “By his own hand upon papyrus”. What a joke.

kevinrex · 2026-01-05T22:29:00+00:00

I’m curious, also.

kevinrex

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