http://brucefey.blogspot.com/2015/11/mormon-defender-erased-by-mormon.html

Looks like Bill Reel's participation in the 2013 FairMormon conference was just whitewashed since he came out publicly against the recent Church policy change.

For those who don't know Bill, he is an active temple recommend holding Mormon who runs his own apologist podcast.

That is just creepy. Reminds me of the Ministry of Truth in 1984. If you erase history, it just didn't happen.

First he executed his uncle ... then he erased him:

http://world.time.com/2013/12/18/see-kim-jong-uns-magical-airbrush/

"But let me be clear, Bill still is an active member of the Church. Still supports the prophet of the Church. Still believes in the Book of Mormon. Still ardently defends the LDS Church against criticisms of it, but with great respect for those who question.

"Yet, this great Mormon defender has been whitewashed by the most well known Mormon apologists in an apparent rebuke of his opposition to the recent policy change of the Church regarding children whose parents are in a same sex marriage."

It's pretty remarkable that FAIR deleted his presentation, seeing as how he's apparently still an active TBM. Sounds like he's good enough for the Lord, but not good enough for FAIR.

"For a group that defends the LDS Church against claims that it has hidden its history, it has just engaged in some history hiding itself."

Indeed. This reminds me of how leaders in the old Soviet Union used to edit out images of disavowed former leaders from photographs. Some examples:

http://iliketowastemytime.com/2012/06/22/soviet-censorship-of-images-during-stalins-regime-5-pics

Another instance of this regarding Mormonism: A 1980 "Ensign" magazine featured articles and photos detailing Mark Hofmann's amazing historical finds, which of course turned out to be forgeries. One article which related how the documents were found in an old Smith family Bible was authored by Hofmann himself, whom church leaders believed was a faithful member at the time. When the church put all of the church magazines on their website, they omitted the article written by Hofmann.

And they actually have the balls to have the word FAIR as part of their name.

What hypocrites!

Before:
http://web.archive.org/web/20131118155732/http://www.fairmormon.org/perspectives/fair-conferences/2013-fair-conference/2013-the-loss-and-rekindling-of-faith

After:
http://www.fairmormon.org/perspectives/fair-conferences/2013-fair-conference/2013-the-loss-and-rekindling-of-faith

Everyone,

The author of the blog in the OP has updated his blog. He has taken back the assertion that the deletion of Bill's participation was related to his coming out against the recent policy change, but still takes FAIR to task for deleting Bill's participation at all.

FAIR must have the gift of prophecy to remove it when they did.

https://www.facebook.com/bill.reel.7/posts/10207922058191804