Posted by:
Cheryl
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Date: January 19, 2011 01:41PM
I'm thinking about the many posters who tell about mormon strangers having names, birthdates, and other personal information on their minor children. And also that these strangers use that advatage to directly contact kids with "love notes," invitations, and sometimes to do missionary lessons without parent permission. Yup, I know this isn't official policy but it's done more often than we'd like to recognize.
There's also the mormon practice of tracking people and keeping tabs on them after they are no longer interested in the church and including resigned former members.
And as for current participating members, they are expected and required to entertain unwanted guest churchmembers in the form of VTers, HTers, and other assigned fellowshippers and officials.
Those are just three examples of really weird mormon behaviors which mormons and many exmos see as acceptable. I don't have any nonmo friends who would put up with any of those things. If they belonged to such a church they'd demand changes or quit.
Are there other behaviors and expectations which seemed reasonable and normal when you were a mormon, but with perspective you see as strange and unacceptable?
Has your sense of privacy and self determination undergone change since leaving the morg? Are you more able to tell mormons no if they step on your toes? Has this ability helped you in non-church situations, on the job, with neighbors, in dealing with vendors and the community?
Thanks, just wondering.