'Mormon No More' covers a range of issues, including the LDS Church’s origins, what a ward is, the belief in three kingdoms in heaven, that Jews sailed to the Americas hundreds of years ago, temple garments, the “curse” of dark skin and temple weddings.
“So after he said that, it did really hurt,” Easton says. “But I do think that that just shows that it is so critical that … people just keep pushing pressure on BYU.”• Several BYU students — their faces obscured to hide their identities because they fear reprisals —. One says he was reported for hugging a friend. Another says she’s heard professors make homophobic comments in class. Several students talk about at least thinking of suicide.
• David, who also lives in Utah, says that he practiced reparative therapy for 20 years, seeing 500 to 700 patients — many referred to him by Latter-day Saint bishops. Polly, whose father was an Indigenous Bolivian, also says she was taught that the dark-skinned Lamanites in the Book of Mormon “were my ancestors. … I believed this very racist narrative of dark skin being a curse.”
Sally’s ex-husband, Shane, has a great deal more difficulty dealing with what’s happened. He remains friendly with Sally and is a good father to his children, but he doesn’t have — and doesn’t want to have — any relationship with Lena. Sally counters, “that works well until it doesn’t work well,” and adds that it “sucks” that her parents pay tithing to “an organization that lobbies for inequality.”
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