Posted by:
motherwhoknows
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Date: September 09, 2012 06:19AM
Mormons are always trying to categorize people, and will lie in their gossip, in order to do so. I was a single woman, therefore they thought I must be having some kind of sex life outside of marriage. I wasn't, so they invented a sexual affair between me and my singles co-chairman. We did date, but they were wrong. What they didn't know was that he was gay.
If you miss church now and then, you are becoming a "less active" and they start love-bombing you, and giving you extra callings, to force you to go to church more often. They over-involve your children.
If you officially resign, you are an apostate. According the the Prophet himself, even TSM, you are "The lazy, the offended, the wicked...who want to sin." They will lie about you, to fit you into that category. My TBM neighbors decided I was "offended" because my children were abused. Well, yeah. What about the abusers? They were promoted to SP, mission president, bishop.
My Mormon neighborhood doesn't like it when good things happen to apostates. One neighbor came into our driveway last week, to ask if my son owned his new car, or was leasing it. He didn't like to hear that my son owned it. They do ask intrusive questions. One neighbor asked why my daughter had only one child, and had stopped. I told her to please not ask my daughter about that, because she had had 2 miscarriages in a row, and was having a hard time dealing with that.
None of this stuff ever happened in our normal neighborhood, outside of Utah, where we lived before, or working in the schools there.
We all know how gossip goes along with prejudice, hatred, fear, and phobias. I didn't like listening to it, and had to leave the room, sometimes. I'm so glad to be away from that. My neighbors are shunning me, and I hope to keep it that way.