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Bryan Mortensen

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Bryan Mortensen

1 year

Ok, I want to do another round of AI temples that reflect the architecture of the region they are built in. But I’d love to pick the temples that are the least connected to local influence to do. Reply with the most disconnected temples in your opinion.

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Bryan Mortensen

2 years

Mormons: “We don’t think gay people should get married and we are going to fund organizations that help stop it,” Pac-12 Fans: “Fuck the Mormons” Mormons: “Wow, such bigotry,”

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3 years

We stopped doing ABA for our autistic daughter after we looked at the research and how much autistic adults found it traumatic. And boy does the pediatric services industry have some opinions about that. I feel like they treat us like anti-vaxxers. Being a parent is hard.

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1 year

It’s kinda crazy there is controversy and disagreement in the Mormon community over a murder like this.

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7 years

That is more of a Bush / Obama report card no? All of those indicators are lagging. Talk to me in 4 years on those numbers.

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5 years

us: Hey, let’s ban conversion therapy in Utah to protect children. state legislature: Well we don’t want to infringe on personal freedoms. us: Oh ok, let’s legalize medical marijuana then. state legislature: Now wait a second, we must protect the children! 🤬

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2 years

If Utah is going to get as expensive as the west coast then can we get better food

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2 years

I’m not experiencing a faith crisis. I’m not deconstructing my religious framework. I’m not really even feeling complex emotions. I’m outraged that the church did this and am considering whether being affiliated with them represents who I am and what’s important to me.

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Bryan Mortensen

3 years

2 references to celestial marriage in scripture and a whole society is built around temple marriage. 1000’s of references to the church helping the poor but we spend less than 1% of our money doing that, That’s what I mean by fixation.

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3 years

1. Pay 10% in tithing 👍 2. Accept a calling. 👍 3. You may be asked to give up everything you have for the kingdom. 👍 4. No pre-marital sex or beer or coffee. 👍 5. Give 2 years of your life on a mission. 👍 6. Please wear a mask and get vaccinated. 🤬 TOO FAR!

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4 years

This might be the most important thing I have heard the Brethern say in a long time. #GeneralConference

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5 years

Kanye walks to the pulpit, pushes Oaks aside, and says, “Imma let you finish, but Dieter F. Uchtdorf was the greatest second counselor of all time!” #GeneralConference #SundayService

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1 year

It’s so easy. The guy who killed his wife and kids doesn’t need honor or public praise. The kindest thing for this dude is not to talk about him at all. Basic shit.

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2 years

Somewhere JS is saying, “just burn the AP’s printing press.”

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Bryan Mortensen

2 years

Graduating from BYU is on my resume and LinkedIn profile. So @BYU , can you not constantly find ways to embarrass graduates who work at companies horrified to see that the N word was used at volleyball matches or that LGBTQ+ support networks were barred from freshman materials?

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2 years

Bishop to child sex abuser - “I cannot report you under the law.” Bishop to 16 year old who just grabbed his girlfriend’s boob -“I must call that girl’s bishop to let him know he has a sinner in his Youth”

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2 years

HOW CAN THE CHURCH KEEP MAKING THE STORY WORSE

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2 years

Yearly reminder that Brigham Young and the early saints hated the United States so much they codified that hate into doctrine and into the temple and the irony of us loving it now is the embodiment of how our church can alter foundational elements and pretend they never existed.

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2 years

Just wild to watch LDS leaders quote and remark on MLK when not 50 years ago, our leaders actively dragged him and were apart of explicit systems of white supremacy. If the church would just apologize for things they could rid themselves of the hypocrisy of days like today.

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2 years

I guess I just think the restored church of Jesus Christ, acting with all the power and authority of God, should be able to turn in known child rapists. It’s an extremely low bar.

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1 year

Shot and chaser:

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2 years

I think I might have hit my breaking point. Direct HQ involvement. Systematic. Over an extended period of time. Also I know from a little birdie this is the first of several of these stories. This is Mormon Spotlight. I don’t see how I can stay.

Seven years of sex abuse: How Mormon officials let it happen

BISBEE, Ariz. (AP) — MJ was a tiny, black-haired girl, just 5 years old, when her father admitted to his bishop that he was sexually abusing her. The father, a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of...

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Bryan Mortensen

5 years

Anyone else have recurring nightmares where you have to go back out on your LDS mission? I’m always saying to myself in those dreams: “how did I agree to this, again? I have a wife and kids at home. This was a very dumb decision.”

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Bryan Mortensen

3 years

Sorry, but spending an entire talk on the name of the church—which has already been talked about at length—and no one talked about vaccination and masks is just…tone deaf.

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Bryan Mortensen

1 year

Agriculture uses 87% of Utah's water. Agriculture grown in a desert in the 3rd driest state in America. Agriculture is less than 4% of Utah's GDP, and the vast majority of Utah's food is produced outside of Utah.

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Bryan Mortensen

2 years

For all those conservatives listening to President Oaks’ talk, I know that helping the poor can be triggering for you. Our thoughts are with you while you sit with what he said. #genconf

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1 year

“I’m so saddened to see someone I knew and respected decided to hurt those closest to him, to snuff out their light. It’s heartbreaking to see a man turn monstrous like that. I wish he knew he had other options. I’m upset I can’t talk to him about it.” -Grieving w/out praising

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Bryan Mortensen

2 years

They knew the piece would hit this week, it seems. What a sham.

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Bryan Mortensen

2 years

Perfect example of a conclusion made without understanding all the variables. Hint: we didn’t switch to join the GOP

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More than 1 million voters switch to GOP in warning for Dems

A political shift is beginning to take hold across the U. S.

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Bryan Mortensen

2 years

Exmo friends, question for you: How many of y’all felt lied to about how tithing money was being used? Like…do you wish you could have that money back from the church knowing what it’s used for?

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1 year

This is a good point. No one is defending him. But they are praising him and honoring him, which feels somehow worse.

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Literally nobody is defending him

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Bryan Mortensen

2 years

I don’t think most millennial Mormons watching UTBOH are ready to discover that the method of the murders matched the temple “penalties” that were discontinued in 1990.

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Bryan Mortensen

2 years

I love Gong’s talks. This one has been great. But damn I wish he would have just taken a picture with his son and his boyfriend. #GeneralConference

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Bryan Mortensen

2 years

New rule: if you require 10% of my income, the underwear should be free.

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Bryan Mortensen

3 years

You know what’s ironic? Our fixation on celestial marriage is what’s holding this church back on LGBTQ+ issues. That fixation was born out of polygamy.

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Bryan Mortensen

10 months

Just a reminder that OUR constantly misrepresents the truth about their activities & level of legitimacy. Supporting OUR can ironically *perpetuate* trafficking & I encourage anyone involved with them to look at independent sources to verify their claims.

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Operation Underground Railroad Touts Non-Existent Partnership With American Airlines

OUR’s CEO Tim Ballard claimed the organization has a “collaboration” this month with American Airlines, but American says otherwise.

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Bryan Mortensen

2 years

They acted as if presenting the exact same information in slightly better language was somehow catching the AP in a lie, when it was just a recounting of the exact same facts: NOT REALIZING THAT THEY ARE CONFIRMING THE REPORTING.

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Bryan Mortensen

8 months

I have now heard the rumor, from two separate sources, that Tim Ballard told the women he did this to that President Ballard authorized the illicit activities, thus using Elder Ballard’s name to sleep with women. This would explain why the statement focused on that fact.

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Bryan Mortensen

4 years

I’d argue that people stepping away from Christianity has more to do with church affiliation and the hypocritical rot of most Christian churches than a rejection of the idea of Christ. #GeneralConference

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3 years

We are so fucked.

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Bryan Mortensen

2 years

Are the mainstream members….just going to straight up ignore this?

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Bryan Mortensen

8 months

Tim Ballard was excommunicated. That stake president moves fast.

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Bryan Mortensen

9 months

Suddenly every conservative is very concerned about law enforcement agents decision to shoot a suspect

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Bryan Mortensen

2 years

Try: We are horrified by the revelations of this story and the events go explicitly against the spirit of the hotline. We mourn for the children abused, and have made and will continue to make changes to the hotline to ensure something like this never happens again.

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Bryan Mortensen

2 years

This response by the church is bad PR externally but seems to be working very well internally, which now seeing member reactions, was probably the point of this whole second response.

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Bryan Mortensen

3 years

LDS church: you could shut down all ward houses in the country to help with covid surge for 3 months and use them as temporary housing for Afghan refugees. Most have showers, kitchens, internet. It’s the Christlike thing to do, and you gotta know that shit would be killer PR.

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Bryan Mortensen

3 years

Toxic Positivity is at the core of all Mormon issues.

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Bryan Mortensen

1 year

Wow I can’t believe Jesus said this:

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Bryan Mortensen

1 year

The absolute schism that will happen when the church reverses course on LGBTQ+ is going to be such a shitshow.

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Bryan Mortensen

1 year

New version of Midjourney (V5) just dropped and…I could see this starting to cause some problems.

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Bryan Mortensen

2 years

Mormon God seeing us praying to Heavenly Mother #GeneralConference

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Bryan Mortensen

6 months

Woooooowwwww, Not a good look, LDS church. (From the amended complaint)

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Bryan Mortensen

1 year

Ask yourself this question: what would it take for you to complain about your church? If the answer is nothing, then you aren’t a member, you’re a sycophant that wants a cult instead of a religion.

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Bryan Mortensen

2 years

Cannot fathom how Papa is on the list. He specifically goes out of his way to remain in the boundaries the brethren have set.

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Bryan Mortensen

1 year

Put out a pride flag and a “I’ll walk with you rainbow flag” in our yard and two of our neighbors have stopped waving. Hadn’t really considered that they view it like I view a Trump flag. But even then, I’m still courteous to the Trump neighbors.

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Bryan Mortensen

1 year

The simple fact we have 32 billion dollars and still ask for kids to pay for their missions is the actual outrage. I don’t care if their actions are legal or not, they are clearly morally dubious.

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Bryan Mortensen

6 months

reading the lawsuit against Tim Ballard - anyone else bothered by this email from Glenn Beck?

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Bryan Mortensen

8 months

- People shouldn’t leave the church - Come back to church if you left - Some members who stay aren’t faithful enough and are “lukewarm” - If you have concerns, they aren’t valid enough to leave over It’s a message designed to make the base feel superior, IMO. Toxic. #ldsconf

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Bryan Mortensen

2 years

I have been edible high during a temple session and I found it to be incredibly cool and deeply spiritual.

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Bryan Mortensen

2 years

It’s crazy how charitable Utah is when they are forced to be in order to attend family members weddings.

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Bryan Mortensen

6 months

@suker_uton He’s not alone tho. Now he’s with them all. For all time. Always.

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Bryan Mortensen

2 years

President Nelson needs to realize it doesn’t matter how much they tried to protect kids. They failed. Focus on the failure, not defending yourself. #genconf

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Bryan Mortensen

1 year

When Ballard said “if you choose to leave the restored church, and become inactive, where will you go? What will you do?” I wonder if he had any inkling of how often the audio would be used on social to show post-Mormon catharsis.

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Bryan Mortensen

1 year

Sometimes I struggle to understand how people in the same church I belong to could be so different on fundamental levels than me.

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Bryan Mortensen

8 months

“Multiple wives” is the point at which Elder Ballard spit out his Diet Coke and started drafting up a statement, I am guessing.

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Tim Ballard’s Departure From Operation Underground Railroad Followed Sexual Misconduct Investigation

“O.U.R. is dedicated to combatting sexual abuse, and does not tolerate sexual harassment or discrimination by anyone in its organization,” the organization tells VICE News.

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Bryan Mortensen

1 year

You know who posed as a Mormon? The guy who killed his whole family. Meanwhile I’m sitting here making my lesson for tomorrow. Sorry you don’t like the swears, Robbie. Keep on believing that following FTSOY is the same thing as living the gospel.

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1 year

Bryan is like a “female with male genitalia” posing on social media as a Mormon, or any good Christian, with that despicable vile blasphemy. These narcissistic liars will always reveal their antipathy for God.

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Bryan Mortensen

10 months

“I’m totally disillusioned with OUR + Tim Ballard” "Tim makes comments I feel are not true" "It hurts to see people pour money into OUR when I feel it's very undeserving." "Tim and his organization are a money-making machine” -Ed Smart

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Bryan Mortensen

4 years

Hey @LDSchurch , this seems like a rogue bishop, no? Very disappointing to have both a rejection of what he brethren have asked and a judgment on those who have enjoyed church from home. And no mention of masks as well as requiring singing? This is...apostasy?

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Bryan Mortensen

2 years

I just feel that this story contains perhaps the worst possible moral travesty one can commit besides killing a child. It’s literally a baby. He raped a baby. And the bishop knew and could have stopped it. Wanted to even. Wasn’t allowed to.

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Bryan Mortensen

3 years

“I guess we will have to ex-communicate her another night,” They said to themselves as the police descended on the protestors outside. This was their idea of Zion.

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Bryan Mortensen

2 years

Looking at those who have responded to @krisis86 ’s condition with support, and I’m so happy to be connected to you all, and to Kris. It’s like a little fringe Mormon ward of unorthodox members. I hope they are going to be ok, and I hope they know how many of us out here love them

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Bryan Mortensen

2 years

The things the AP got wrong according to the church, a 🧵:

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Bryan Mortensen

3 years

2,448 Americans died in Afghanistan in 20 years. 8,642 will die this week of Covid

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3 years

I hope Ezra Taft Benson is watching this mess unfold and realize it’s mostly his fault.

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Bryan Mortensen

3 years

My anxiety, a roadmap: Short term: how is my family going to make it out of covid alive? Medium term: how is my family going to survive the sectarian violence of America’s collapse? Long term: how is my family going to survive the ongoing climate apocalypse?

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Bryan Mortensen

1 year

I have been asked by my father, for his birthday, to not use the f word on this app for a year. He’s one of the only people I’d do anything for without a second thought. So here’s to the next fricking year.

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11 months

If you don't walk as most people do, Some people walk away from you, But I won't, I won't. I will walk with you. If you don't talk as most people do, Some people talk and laugh at you, But I won't, I won't I will talk with you.

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1 year

Mormon temple in Egypt if the church stuck to reflecting local historical architecture

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2 years

The gaslighting is so hard to stomach.

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Bryan Mortensen

2 years

“Me and your mom love you deeply, but you’ll be disinherited and unwelcome at any and all family functions and we will constantly shit talk you decisions to everyone we know and we will constantly preach to you.” Family, isn’t it about…trauma?

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Bryan Mortensen

1 year

I asked ChatGPT to create a synopsis for a Mormon super hero movie and then asked Midjourney to create a poster for it. It did not disappoint. A 🧵:

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Bryan Mortensen

10 months

Tim Ballard was kicked out of OUR and the Nazarene Fund for: -Mistreatment of Women -Misuse of Organizations Funds ->supposedly this was related to the counter-intuitive bounty funds that maybe have caused more trafficking. Now he’s started a 3rd fund, called the “Spear Fund”

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Bryan Mortensen

2 years

Church is flirting with blaming the bishops you can feel it

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Bryan Mortensen

2 years

It is nice to see Reuters and the AP ignore the church rebrand efforts and just go back to using Mormon.

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2 years

“Protect monogamy!” says the 6th great great great grandson of one of the 55 of Brigham Young’s wives.

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Bryan Mortensen

3 years

“I wonder where all the hostility is coming from?” he says while loading a musket.

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Elder Holland: "Friends, in our present moment we find all manner of divisions and subdivisions, sets and subsets, digital tribes and political identities, with more than enough hostility to go around... 1/2 #GeneralConference

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2 years

Elder Anderson, respectfully, the faithful membership under 40 is a “multitude” that are leaving because of the kind of gaslighting in this talk. “Can boundary lines exists without battle lines?” Uh…you all called for muskets last year. #GeneralConference

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1 year

When I tell you the church’s research makes them very much aware of problems, this is the kind of thing I mean. They are very good at research over there.

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Bryan Mortensen

3 years

Only a matter of time until there is some Mormon church version of Q, who is saving the church from the deep state.

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Bryan Mortensen

8 months

Doctrines never changes, policy does. If it changes…it was policy. So by defintion, the church’s policy on gender and marriage is policy, as it’s changed many times. #genconf

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1 year

I was told, by several Dezgnats, that we Mormons shouldn’t fly flags about our sexuality. I’m sure they will condemn this as “weird”, right? RIGHT?

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2 years

Them: Continuing revelation and the ongoing restoration! Us: Ask about LGBTQ and Heavenly Mother! Them: No, not like that. #GeneralConference

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2 years

Feeling very bad for any active man in the church listening who didn’t serve right now. You can’t imagine the way they have been treated for not serving. I thought we were over this social pressure about missions. Man, re-entrenchment. #GeneralConference

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1 month

In my circles, most have left the church, and don’t watch #genconf . Those who have stayed seem barely interested in #genconf . The brethern’s talks are more boring and repetitive than normal. Most of the first presidency aren’t even there. Church feels empty and on autopilot.

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1 year

“Do you strive to be honest in all that you do?” “Well, bishop, I go to great lengths to hide my business dealings with those who give me money. So yes?”

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Bryan Mortensen

3 years

Quoting William Bar in a church magazine is really something I did not anticipate.

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Bryan Mortensen

1 year

If the Savior rejects LGBTQ+ lifestyles and choices, I disagree with him. But based on literally everything we know about him, that seems unlikely. So the next logical conclusion is maybe 15 business leaders in Northern Utah don’t speak to him all that often and get it wrong.

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LDS Footnotes

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“Elder Hamilton encouraged the audience to substitute the words ‘the Church’ for the word ‘Savior’ in those sentences because it puts a different perspective on things when one says they disagree with the Savior.”

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3 years

I know a lot of you already felt the church entrenchment was underway, but I think the talks from the 12 this morning were a clear signal that orthodoxy is the driving idea in the leadership of the church right now, and it’s so depressing. #GeneralConference

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1 year

“I’ll need 10% of your income. Also buy garments. Also rent temple clothes. Also pay for the missions of the 7 kids we told you to have. Now here are some self-reliance courses to better manage your money, Herz’s why are you so poor?”

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@stores518 @Bemorte Anne, I'm sure if you can't afford the 5 dollar temple rental for clothing the church can cover it for you.

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How many of the people who said that disliking Ballard and OUR and speaking out against them meant you supported sex trafficking and pedo want to condemn the brethren today? Anyone?

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