Posted by:
forbiddencokedrinker
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Date: March 12, 2014 05:01PM
There could be a number of things. Most likely he was disciplined with an excommunication by a court of love when he was younger for something the Mormons consider serious. It could be something like having had an affair, or *gasp* having a divorce, though as I stated in another post a divorce really only is a problem if you are in Utah, since they get desperate in the rest of the world. Don't be quick to dismiss divorce though, I have Mormon and ex-Mormon friends who discovered, while adults, that one or both of their parents had a divorce when younger, and it was kept as a dark family secret, never shared with the children.
Your FIL could have done some serious jail time as a young man, or engaged in other criminal acts that he confessed to the church, but have never come to the attention of the authorities. Or he could have had an affair, that he confessed, even though it may have been a one time thing that happened years ago, and that caused him so much guilt that he has never strayed again. He may have admitted to the church authorities as to having helped someone have an abortion. He may be a closeted homosexual, or has admitted having bisexual feelings.
He may refuse to pay tithing, because the church doesn't open its books, but keeps this little rebellion to himself, because he sees the church as mostly good. He may have prominently spoken out against the leaders as a youth, or got sent home from his mission for boinking the Mission President's daughter.
Whatever it is, it is more likely to be something that doesn't blemish who he is as a man in real life, than it is to be something horrible, like him being a murderer, or child rapist. Hell you can do those last two, and still be the prophet of the Lord, in Mormonism.