Posted by:
schmowned
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Date: April 18, 2014 11:16AM
My 12 year old son has decided to get the priesthood.
I want to be able to sit in on his interview with the bishop for a couple reasons.
1 - I remember the powerful influence an adult, who represents himself as having God's power and authority to make decisions for all the people in the ward, had on me as a youth. I would give whatever answer this guy wanted to hear. I think it's unreasonable to expect a child to answer such profoundly life altering questions honestly when put in this private meeting environment.
2- I think it's creepy that a minor child is put in a private room with an adult male who asks him a series of questions, including potential probing (no pun intended) inquiries into his sexual activity. I'm also not a big fan of some of the other worthiness questions as I feel the doctrines behind them can be psychologically damaging.
So, my wife emails the bishop letting him know that I would like to sit in on the interview. The bishop responded..."just as a matter of clarification, I would love to meet with ****** and I think that it would be great if he was there, but I imagine that you and ****** know that he would not be able to actually be in the interviews since they are private."
I was blown away. Really? An adult has the audacity to tell me I can't witness an interview he wants to have with my minor son? My initial reaction was that this was an extremely arrogant response, but then again, I tend to be biased against TSCC.
Anybody have a different take on this? Am I overreacting?