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Judi Lynn

(160,217 posts)
Mon Sep 17, 2018, 12:34 AM Sep 2018

Mormon fighting to end youth interviews ousted from faith

Source: Associated Press


Updated 4:15 pm CDT, Sunday, September 16, 2018

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Mormon man who led a campaign criticizing the church's practice of allowing closed-door, one-on-one interviews of youth by lay leaders that sometimes included sexual questions has been kicked out of the faith following a disciplinary hearing.

Sam Young read a verdict letter for the first time Sunday that had been delivered to him following last week's hearing with local church leaders in Houston.

Young and his supporters say the interviews where youth are asked if they're following the law of chastity led to inappropriate conversations and shaming.

Young called his excommunication "a supreme disappointment" and was emotional at a news conference attended by about 100 of his supporters.

Read more: https://www.chron.com/news/texas/article/Mormon-fighting-to-end-youth-interviews-ousted-13233686.php

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Mormon fighting to end youth interviews ousted from faith (Original Post) Judi Lynn Sep 2018 OP
I think I'm going to KT2000 Sep 2018 #1
Noticed the last name of Young. Wellstone ruled Sep 2018 #2
They're doing him a favor, kicking him out of their Super Secret Imaginary Sky Wizard club. DRoseDARs Sep 2018 #3
That was my thought as well. n/t Coventina Sep 2018 #7
Welcome to the reality-based community, Sammy! lagomorph777 Sep 2018 #9
It's a valuable lesson in institutional patriarchal control, a cautionary tale for the rest of us. ancianita Sep 2018 #4
Does he get to keep tazkcmo Sep 2018 #5
The church did the same to women who were publicly arguing for equal rights with men. Nitram Sep 2018 #6
They did him a favor hueymahl Sep 2018 #8

KT2000

(20,544 posts)
1. I think I'm going to
Mon Sep 17, 2018, 12:45 AM
Sep 2018


Some creep getting off on their stories. I have heard this is done in some churches too. Women have to testify about their sins before the congregation.
 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
2. Noticed the last name of Young.
Mon Sep 17, 2018, 12:52 AM
Sep 2018

One of Brigham Young's Grand Kids? If so,this is major . Ezra Taft Benson's Grand son Left the Church to help others that wanted to get out. Think he is running a anti Mormon web site based in Phoenix.

 

DRoseDARs

(6,810 posts)
3. They're doing him a favor, kicking him out of their Super Secret Imaginary Sky Wizard club.
Mon Sep 17, 2018, 02:39 AM
Sep 2018

Move on with you life, dude. You've been living a lie up to now.

hueymahl

(2,415 posts)
8. They did him a favor
Mon Sep 17, 2018, 03:02 PM
Sep 2018

Maybe now he will realize he has wasted most of his life believing in fairy tales and start doing something productive with his life.

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