It’s because they aren’t upset that Josh abused his sisters or cheated on his wife. They are upset that a reporter discovered that those things happened and made them public. They weren’t upset when it was their secret.

Oooh, the famous “what happened” instead of “what my husband did.” The passive voice is a staple of this genre.

It’s the whole “throw the kids out of church bit” that is bothersome. For example: As a Catholic, you can be a gay drug dealing porn star with 15 abortions with 5 out of wedlock kids and YOUR FAMILY STILL WOULD BE WELCOMED BACK INTO THE CHURCH. The Church is the ultimate family, and we take everyone- EVERYONE- but…

Its because of the actual rule about the kids. Gay people know the church doesn’t like them. This is about the not allowing children to be blessed and such. Also Prop 8 was a few years ago, since then the church has helped support anti-discrimination laws in Utah and went public with how wrong Kim Davis was.They also…

Put a sign on your door that reads: “All Mormons who knock on my door will be baptized, without their consent, as Catholic.”

their parents’ choices

I mean, not to be this asshole but: are these people just now figuring out that their church is anti-gay? Like, these are the folks who quite truly bankrolled vile Prop 8 in a whole other state.

I grew up in this religion. I left it 15 years ago. To this day, I still have missionaries show up at my door asking why I’m still choosing to be inactive.

I’m down with a mass exodus of Mormons. Reading this today completely broke my heart. This is tearing families apart, for the ones that are still clinging to dogma, so I’m glad that there are a sizable number of people who are calling bullshit and wanting out.

Obviously kids have their own personalities. But if they’re angry enough to want to kill you, or if they drink themselves into an early grave, you probably did something wrong.

The thing about upper middle class families is that, when they’re cruel, they’re very upper middle class about it. The parents sent their teenage daughter to a psychiatric hospital for being rebellious (what?) and later kicked her out (shortly before she finished high school), and it turns out she was bipolar, so we…

Suzy and Rick Wamsley were a well-liked couple in their mid-40s. They lived a comfortable, upper-middle-class life, and didn’t seem to have any enemies.

My step dad was excommunicated for sexually abusing me. The idea that my lesbian daughter could get the same punishment enrages me.

The brain may not work, but somehow the penis and fists always do.

Utterly so. Spat it out on the kitchen floor.

That neighbor is a dipshit. He brought a knife to the party which shows premeditation. Plus knocking two times before attacking to make sure the scene was clear before. That’s not being mentally slow. That shows forethought in what he did.

That lady... wow. Terrible what she went through, but dammit, good for her for biting his tongue OFF. Gosh.