truth dancer wrote:I joined the church as a child because the missionaries told me that there was a man who talked to Jesus. I believed them.
To add a little more to the story.... my nanny, Mary was an LDS woman whom I dearly loved. She was a devoted member and invited us to take the discussions which I did. She was very abused by her LDS priesthood holding husband but I did not know it at the time. I saw the bruises but didn't put it all together until one day I came home from school and received the news that her husband shot her and then himself.
It is one of the reasons I have devoted my life to women and children who are abused.
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While I can sympathize your story, this behavior is not a norm in LDS church.