🎶freedom's just another word
for nothing left to lose🎶
#solarpunk #exmo #exmormon #ReligiousTrauma #exvie #exvangelical #USPol #Antifa #resist #humanism #atheism
There definitely seems to be a vibe shift. From powerlessness and helplessness to empowerment and determination
I'm not the only one. And it's not just here on Mastodon.
Nothing is forever. No trend continues ever upward. We're learning the skills and fortitude we need. We're self-organizing against the shape that collective trauma has forced us into.
This too shall pass.
Then imagine the world we'll be able to build with the momentum.
#exmo #exmormon #ReligiousTrauma #exvie #exvangelical #USPol #Antifa #resist #humanism #atheism
Inspiring.
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A study on how media coverage of cults affects the recovery of former cult members. Via the ICSA.
https://icsatoday.substack.com/p/cults-and-media-stereotypes-does
This study explores how media portrayals of cults affect the mental well-being and recovery of survivors, revealing a significant link between media exposure and self-acceptance.
From the story: 'A year ago, the Trump administration repealed previous guidelines that generally prevented law enforcement officers from entering churches in search of immigrants lacking permanent legal status. A few days after the announcement, the church’s governing First Presidency stated that church buildings “should not be used to help shield individuals from law enforcement.”'
ahem.
*cracks knuckles*
[Warning: Yelling incoming.]
THEN WHY THE FUCK IN CASES OF SEXUAL ABUSE DO YOU OFFICIALLY COUNSEL BISHOPS TO ONLY INFORM LAW ENFORCEMENT IF STATE LAW REQUIRES IT???
Fucking fucking fuck. What a bunch of abject racist authoritarian pedo-harboring cowards.
So in honor of this occasion, I will link to the FLOODLIT database, a record of the hundreds of *documented* sexual abuse cases that have been enabled and/or covered up by the LDS Church:
And The Mormon Alliance Case Reports, which were reporting on this systemic issue in the 1990s (for which its author was excommunicated):
https://mormon-alliance.org/casereports/volume1/v1.htm
And my own testimony that I have read or heard literally *thousands* of personal sexual abuse stories that happened within LDS contexts where either secrecy was passively maintained due to the high levels of shame created by Church rhetoric, or was actively maintained by official leadership decisions, which include, among other things, punishing victims, letting perps go, and placing perps back into positions of power or over new potential victims. I have sourced these stories from memoirs, many forums including Reddit, Facebook, or been personally told these stories, even while still LDS.
The LDS Church is a sex abuse factory, and this quote from the Church really fucking pisses me off. We can't possibly use the church to shield individuals whose only crime is existing in an unauthorized location, but by hell, if you hurt kids, well, it's game on boys!
Prophet Oaks full on agreeing with Donald "Epstein" Trump, says "Throw 'em to the pigs!"
You'll never find any top LDS leadership in the Epstein files because they don't need his overpriced island. They've got one of their own, right in the open in Utah!
After all this time, 25 years out, I don't think the SA issue in the LDS Church will ever not absolutely enrage me.
Wow. See here is why I love the Mormon people. When they end up cutting past the propaganda that keeps them hampered, they show up with the kind of energy and moral correctness that we were taught to have, that surpasses any modern church I've ever seen.
LDS Corp has left the ICE issue up to individual wards to decide. The wards that have decided to protect their own are *going hard*. This is a fantastic model for mutual aid. This is some City of Enoch level bravery and righteousness.
They're protesting detention centers, holding services online, locking down church entrances against potential ICE raids, planning escape routes, providing information about rights and how to handle ICE, feeding people, picking up kids,
“It is my divine obligation to … be politically aware and pass along information,” [Osorio Reyes] said, “to make sure the people in my ward are informed and safe.”
The Stake President is collecting extra fast offerings to help affected families with material needs.
This is the shit I was raised on. This is the shit I was told we were to be doing. And then... we simply never did. Our energies were redirected to useless time-wasters, and more priority was placed on "sexual" righteousness and whether or not someone drank Coke. Our minds were filled with barely coded racist interpretations of the world.
This is why, for my activism focus, I chose to work with exmormon populations. Because for all the dysfunctional ways we were conditioned to be, we were also instilled with a fire. Helping exmormons (and open-minded progressive Mormons) dump the dysfunctional baggage frees us up to be a real force for good in this world. We gave a majority of our time and money to the LDS Church, so when we stop doing that, our energies are free to go elsewhere.
One note on the geopolitics of the situation: unlike other brands of Christianity in the US, the LDS Church is interestingly torn on the immigration issue, because outside of the USA, their majority membership is in Latin America.
I've got one more thing to say about top-level leadership, next post.
Archive:
Original (paywalled still):
https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2026/02/03/how-latter-day-saints-la-responded/
I'm listening to @sltrib's #MormonLand because I knew John Gustav-Wrathall in civil rights activism circles in #SaltLake.
I'm #exmo #ExMormon now, but I grew up and was Mormon most of my life, so I'm still culturally Mormon. My only question for #TaCOJCOLDS is, you have half of your adult members in an organization literally called the "Relief Society". Where is the relief for the society your immigrant and targeted-by-racists neighbors live in? They should have all the food/rent/gas they need to not need to leave their homes until this stops. You have hundreds of billions of dollars.
Update: now halfway thru scene 3, slightly more subtle that scenes 1-2 but only slightly.
Scene 3: Bring Me to Life/"is there no other way", in which a Mormon stake president gives a temple recommend interview and accidentally assumes the role of Satan to the congregant's Eve
Pic for attention, taken yesterday by my child
#workinprogress #musical #composer #writer #exmormon #beachgoth
Woman claims to have impregnated herself with Epstein's semen and sent him a pint of mormon blood from her youngest daughter every week in exchange for her school funding
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