When I think about me leaving the church I think a lot about the number of people I'm taking with me. So far it's 8. That's 8 less people paying tithing, 8 less people fulfilling callings etc. I know in the grand scheme of the size of the church 8 people isn't a big deal. When you think of it in a ward setting in the Midwest where the ward numbers aren't that large 8 is kind of a big deal. I took 5 priesthood/potential priesthood holders with me and 3 women...who lets face it unless they have a baseball team worth of kids they don't count for much in the church. Dig a little deeper and you realize that with just my 6 kids alone the potential for future church generations is kinda huge. I took potentially dozens or even hundreds of people out of the church.
Thank goodness!
The buck stops here.
I'm an admin on an LDS LGBTQ facebook group and the majority of our members are women. Mothers who have LGBTQ children who are trying to navigate their families reality with their membership in the church.
I think the moms are going to be what takes the church down eventually. The moms with queer children, the moms with neurodiverse kids, the moms whose children leave the church and they love them anyway, the moms who are tired of perpetuating a patriarchal system that hurts their daughters.
The moms are going to take the church down. And by down I don't mean "burn it to the ground" I mean who are going to leave quietly because they just can't anymore until eventually something changes or they have drastic drops in membership.
The buck stops here for us. I'm taking them all with me!
I'd love to see the statistics of how many members the women take with them when they leave.
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