Posted by:
ExMoBandB
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Date: September 22, 2014 05:38AM
In SLC, a bishop was having an affair with the chorister, who was pregnant. There was such a scandal, that they both got divorces, married to each other, and moved to a different city--and into my ward. I knew them for 10 years. No one in our ward knew about their past. One day, I was at their house, rehearsing a musical group, when her husband and her son walked in together, and I remarked on how they looked exactly alike. The husband and wife looked at me in horror, and changed the subject. Later, I was told that the youngest son was supposed to have been fathered by her first husband. She was pregnant when they were cheating, but they had been cheating before she got pregnant. This ex-bishop became the teacher in the elder's quorum, and encouraged the men that is was OK, and very fun to have affairs, like JS did. The men would lie for each other, if any wives were looking for them. The whole group secret exploded, and 7 husbands were excommunicated! My own husband and his bishopric brother were among them. The ex-bishop was not excommunicated, however.
Bad things come out of lies and secrets--and that goes for the Mormon cult, too.
Our Stake President's counselor had an affair, but he had been a widower for 6 years. Women were all over him. They brought him meals, washed and ironed his shirts, even cleaned his house. I had to deal with this creep, because of my church calling. We came out of another ward house, and a woman had left a very graphic note under his windshield wiper. One night, I turned the corner of our street, and my headlights flashed into a neighbor's garage, and I saw him making out with his married secretary. This secretary was barely out of high school, married, with a baby. She and her husband were staying at the neighbor's house, while they were on a mission. I didn't say anything. I probably should have. A few weeks later, the husband came home unexpectedly and caught his wife and the counselor in bed together. The husband divorced her, and she married the counselor, then they got divorced and married other people, then the counselor got divorced and married someone else, them the neighbor's girl got divorced and re-married the counselor, but their marriage lasted less than a year.
I had a bishop hit on me--for real. Here's another good Mormon pickup line, which he told me, "I'm just enduring to the end in my marriage." I got angry at him for thinking I was that kind of woman, and for thinking I would be interested in a shriveled-up little arrogant geek. Later, the same bishop hit on one of my married friends.
It was a relief to put all this garbage behind me and go back to the Lutheran church. Nothing happens there.