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Harmony is not a Mormon. Harmony has never been a Mormon. Harmony is making it up as she goes along, which is why she knows little to nothing about basic church doctrines, church government, or church policies.
Harmony is a Mormon, she has been a Mormon since October 1970, she generally tells the truth as she sees it because if she makes it up, she forgets how it's supposed to go. Unlike Joseph, she doesn't have 6 different explanations for the same event. And she knows as much as the church as anyone else who's been involved for 35+ years.
Harmony, it can be proved, by a judicious mining of the archives of this forum and ZLMB, doesn't understand, basic, rudimentary, fundamental concepts of Church doctrine, policy, and Priesthood government. Ergo, she is either a quite traditional anti-Mormon fraud attempting to claim legitimacy for her vacuous and mendacious criticisms by claiming "insider" status as an active Mormon, or she spent 35 years in a religion she never bothered trying to understand or educate herself upon. Both are a possibility, I'll admit.
Oh, and I might add that harmony, unlike Loran, has always been active, temple worthy, with no periods of inactivity, no run-ins with the law, no time when the Word of Wisdom was kicked to the curb, and throughout her life has been an upstanding defender of the church (and still is, when they're doing something that needs defending). She married her high school sweetheart in the temple, raised 8 children, has held multiple callings, has 3 college degrees, and has a rewarding and fulfilling career as a fundraiser for a national non-profit.
This is, unwittingly on her part perhaps, just the kind of thing I'm talking about. If Harmony is Temple worthy, then she has lied like a real trooper through her pearly whites to get that recommend, because
she does not accept a single basic doctrine or truth claim of the Church regarding its origin, the character of its founder, the ligitimacy of its new scripture, or the character or inspiration of its present leadership. Given this, either Harmony's Bishop and Stake President are semi-autistic mental defectives, or Harmony has carefully hidden her real views of the Church and the Gospel, interview after interview, from them. If Harmony is, indeed, a Mormon, then I've got to go with the latter. If you don't accept Joseph Smith as a Prophet, the First Vision and origin of the Church and Book of Mormon; if you do not and will not follow the counsel of the Lord's anointed in our day, and if you think Joseph to be a lying, self serving, megalomaniacal lecher, then if you've got a Temple recommend, at the very least, you are a liar and a deceiver yourself, having deceived your leaders, friends, and other Ward members that you are a Temple worthy member, when you are patently not, and that you
are a Latter Day Saint, when you are patently nothing of the kind in anything but a purely technical sense, and hence should not be calling any alleged kettles black.
We've got Scratch's number in this area as well.
There are other church's, with other standards, in which this kind of dishonesty would not be necessary.
Not sexually repressed; sexually disappointed. Once again, you got it wrong. They aren't repressed at all. On the contrary, the women would be happy as clams, if their husbands suddenly showed some initiative and creativity in the bedroom.
You really cannot see that that this anti-male pose that dovetails nicely with your anti-Mormon pose is as transparently a manufactured shibboleth as one could imagine? You and I have been over your personal issues regarding Gospel teachings vis-a-vis marriage, family, and sexuality long ago, so don't think I haven't forgotten the Monkey's that are on your back and who's bidding you do.
As for my membership and temple recommend: they're quite substantial and need no seal of approval from Loran. Lucky for me, you have no stewardship over me. Of course, if you did, I'd request a transfer of my records to 2nd ward.
Either lucky for me your retard Bishop and SP have no stewardship over me, or lucky you that you can keep up this pose here for as long as it rattles your chain.
So, so, so utterly transparent. The sad thing is you really believe we're going to eventually buy it, if you just keep repeating the same claims over and over and over again. I've been in the Church all of my life. You, based upon several years of talking to you, either never have, or have, but never paid attention to a damn thing.
There are no other choices based upon long experience with your own words and claims. It simply is not possible that anyone as thoroughly in apostasy from the Church as you clearly are could have a Temple recommend. Remain in the Church? Sure. But as you do not accept
virtually any of its truth claims or teachings, and consider its leadership to be generally benighted at best, you may as well just stop the charade, at least in my case.