It helps show what they really are when we can see them weasel around questions. Steven Hassan (freedomofmind.com) said a big part of getting out of the Moonies for him was seeing Moon lie to a question from a reporter on TV. Also, it is a way of pressuring them to change a few things for those who are still in the church for the better, which they shouldn't have doctrinal objections to changing.
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Has any apostle ever met with a group of ex-Mormons in public, on the record in the last fifty years? I recently talked to an LDS area authority (similar to general authority but it's a weekend job, not full-time) and he claimed upper LDS leaders were very willing to meet with ex-mormons. This has not been my impression reading people's stories online, and the LDS response seems to have been t
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I haven't noticed that, like with this one you can see the comments. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQGuDslF9Uo I've tried to comment on those videos though and it says Comments Pending Approval! When you read the comments it's clear that nothing negative about the videoes gets past their screening people.
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My whole family is deeply involved in the church. On my mother and father's side, one ancestor was an apostle under Brigham Young, another was part of the Martin Handcart Company, and another gave up the gold mines of California in the California gold rush to head back to Utah and continue building up Zion. Both sides of our extended family have most of the members we know in Utah, and so family
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