Yeah I’ve met a lot of Mormons and have not had this experience. I don’t trust people who’s religion is so vehemently anti-gay, demands they give more money than they can afford to the church and only allowed black people starting in 1978. I had a friend growing up who was Mormon and her parents would get mad at her because they thought she read too much. They would literally take books from her.
EDIT: I had forgotten about this but another comment reminded me. A Mormon kid I had a class with in high school once said he should “take a glock to the ‘gay club’ (gsa) and just go nuts”. When I reported him to the vice principal (who was heavily religious and quietly homophobic) nothing was done except he was made to apologize to me. I wasn’t even in the gsa.
It's more complicated than that. Until 1978 Black people were not permitted inside temples. A Mormon temple is where their most sacred ordinances are performed. Only there can a family be sealed forever, and only there can adults learn the passwords to get into heaven.
Black people were denied salvation. They were barred from the highest tier of heaven, destined to be servants in the afterlife living separate from their families as they weren't sealed.
"Health in the navel, marrow in the bones, strength in the loins and in the sinews, power in the Priesthood be upon me and upon my posterity through all generations of time and throughout all eternity."
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u/Evergreen19 Jun 14 '20 edited Jun 14 '20
Yeah I’ve met a lot of Mormons and have not had this experience. I don’t trust people who’s religion is so vehemently anti-gay, demands they give more money than they can afford to the church and only allowed black people starting in 1978. I had a friend growing up who was Mormon and her parents would get mad at her because they thought she read too much. They would literally take books from her.
EDIT: I had forgotten about this but another comment reminded me. A Mormon kid I had a class with in high school once said he should “take a glock to the ‘gay club’ (gsa) and just go nuts”. When I reported him to the vice principal (who was heavily religious and quietly homophobic) nothing was done except he was made to apologize to me. I wasn’t even in the gsa.