Thursday, August 19, 2004

Interesting stuff from Salt Lake City...

The SL Trib is following the Sunstone conference, kind of a safe place for dissident mormons to explore ideas frowned upon by the hierarchy. Lots of excommunicated types or at least those shunned. Kind of a weird crowd, it is full of people who disagree with much of mormonism but yet want to stay in the mormon church. Kind of odd. Anyway, this is a piece about a feminist mormon who was excommunicated, and her story of the excommunication process is wrenching. This is one of the reasons we did not have any desire to go before the bishop after we told him we were leaving mormonism. I was not in the mood to face a board of inquisition so they could excommunicate me before I could resign, to make them feel like they were doing their duty.

Note I have little sympathy for the feminist movement in general, but her story is a sad one regardless.

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