Mormon church issues new restrictions on transgender members
Mormon church issues new restrictions on transgender members
The new policies include a measure to annotate trans members’ records, grouping them with members who have committed sexual violence or child abuse.
The new policies include a measure to annotate trans members’ records, grouping them with members who have committed sexual violence or child abuse.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, known widely as the Mormon church, issued a slew of new policies this week expanding its restrictions on transgender members.
The policies, released Monday, include rules barring trans people from working with children, becoming priests and serving as teachers. The church also expanded on an existing rule that barred trans people from being baptized.
Trans members will also face possible annotation on their membership records, grouping them with churchgoers who have committed incest, sexual predatory behavior, sexual violence against children and embezzlement of church funds.
Did Joseph Smith come back to life and read the restrictions out of a hat? Otherwise it doesn't count
Dum dum dum dum dum
LDS is at least upfront about how they change stuff
Tax free status for churches has been one of the dumbest policies ever, they don't follow the rules on not promoting political parties and candidates and use that privilege to oppress scapegoats.
I would even be fine with preserving their tax-free status if they were required to keep open books like other nonprofits. Let the world see exactly what a megachurch spends its money on. They'll find they have a lot fewer new recruits.
Grouping them with child predators, so they're part of the clergy now?
I don't know if Mormons do posthumous baptism, but put me in a fucking dress before loading me in the furnace or chipper shredder or whatever if it will prevent any of that bullshit.
They certainly do and unfortunately they don’t need the body. No one is safe.
So many people did baptisms for both Anne Frank and Adolf Hitler.
There’s an easier way to not deal with it.
Remember, they need you to believe in a god that is all powerful, all knowing and doesn’t give enough of a shit to not make fuckups like this.
(That. Or maybe it’s all bullshit and their asshole god is made in their image.)
They don't only do posthumous baptism, they do posthumous baptism of non-Mormons to make them into Mormons.
They did a posthumous baptism for Anne Frank. Assholes. I realize that doesn't change anything about anything, but they're still assholes for doing it.
Anyone can submit names and people often submit names to embarrass the church because they know it will cause problems. Secondly the 'anne frank' that had work done was not the historically famous figure but a different person entirely,
Temple work is ancestor focused worship, it's not about changing anyone's historical factual life, that's not at all a belief in the church, no one thinks that temple work changes ANYTHING about history, that's INSANE and no one thinks that's what's happening with the names you work.
All the names you so work for are supposed to be YOUR ancestors, people do go through and offer to do names people have left available for anyone, but those names are still supposed to be that other persons ancestors, not unrelated people, no one is supposed to be submitting names of any historical figure they arend provably a decendent of, and even then, they should only do so if they have a right to do that work.
A lot of people hate Mormons and like to make up the worst things they can think of to insult or vilify them. I was Mormon for a long time, I left the church because of ACTUAL THINGS the church does that are wrong and bad and against the churches own doctorine, the choices they make about training and policy, the severe anti lgbtq hatetred they support and spread. NOT because of made up bullshit no one in the church has ever done or believed.
There's more than enough factual information to criticize, making up bullshit isn't necessary and it's dishonest and stupid.
Don't you have to want to be baptized.... Like isn't absolution supposed to be a self sought ideal.
Yeah, the real impact of this will just be further alienation of trans youths.
Mormon baptism is also the key initiation ritual. You aren't "officially" Mormon until you're baptized. Typically, this happens at age 8, because that's when you are deemed to have sufficient agency for some very stupid reason, but also all converts and previously excommunicated people must be baptized (or re-baptized in the latter case) to become members. I think this is mostly telling local missionaries and members not to even try to baptize a trans person until they're "fixed."
Until a lawsuit happens and senior members of the church have a magic moment and change their minds?
God famously changed his mind about black folks, why not trans ones?
LDS Church in 2079: "Okay, okay, God is trans actually."
I hope changes like this make them taxable. I want a fat cut of all that cash they are hoarding.
Shitty, useless organization does yet more shitty things.
Supremacist fringe cult practices bigotry, film at eleven.
It's like they learned nothing with the gay community. All this shit just screams scared old man. Fucking over their nonsense.
You mean to tell me that it's too much trouble for them to keep track of their own leadership and bishops to remember which have been accused of misbehavior and sexual abuse, but they totally have the time and capacity to keep track of which church members had a sex change and then group them with the empty file of sex abusers to was too troublesome to keep?
Church of Jesus Christ? More like Church of "Jesus Christ!"
The LDS church is straight up is a scam. They are tax exempt, require you pay tithing, and even use their members to clean the church buildings, despite the absurd amounts of wealth they have. And all they do with that money is build temples all over the place, and hoard it.
Funny, I've mentally annotated mormons my whole life as likely to commit sexual violence and child abuse.
So is Brandon Sanderson going to rewrite the king of the reshi isles or what? Lmfao I always laugh whenever someone tells me how inclusive or socially positive any of his writing is. Y'all can clown on JK Rowling no problem but give this guy a pass?
Asking genuinely as someone who hasn't read any of his books; what had B.S. said/written that is socially negative? I know nothing about the guy tbh.
What did Joseph Smith say about transgender people? Nothing. What did Brigham Young have to say about transgender? Nothing. What does the book of Mormon say about transgender? Nothing.
Must be nice to hide your bigotry behind a religion that does not even back you up your hate in its scripture. Truly pathetic.
there are trans mormons?
Buddy how can trans people become priests isn't it a sin in Christianity
All the rules are made up, and the points don't matter.
It’s a title in the church. Not what you’re thinking it is.
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